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It describes staged production images from the artist’s Warsaw process, the narrative of an orphaned Vietnamese girl taken in by teenage K-pop fans, and the choreography set against Soviet monuments and Stalinist architecture. The text analyzes themes of belonging, cruelty, loneliness, national identity, and the erasure and demand for representation in a networked, atomized present.","Diane Severin Nguyen Selected Press  \nLloyd Wise,“Portfolio: Diane Severin Nguyen”, Artforum, Issue 60, No.2 October 2021  \nPORTFOLIO DIANE SEVERIN NGUYEN  \nIN DIANE SEVERIN NGUYEN’S PORTFOLIO for Artforum the artist shares a selection of production stills shot by photographer Dawid Misiorny while Nguyen was filming If Revolution Is a Sickness, 2021. The video, set in Warsaw, appears in Nguyen’s first solo institutional exhibition, at New York’s SculptureCenter. (The show travels to Chicago’s Renaissance Society in the spring.) Just a few blocks away, at moma ps1, Nguyen is participating in the fifth edition of Greater New York, which opens later this month.  \nIf Revolution Is a Sickness begins with an orphaned Vietnamese girl washing ashore in an unidentified European country. Years later, isolated and alone in Warsaw, she is taken in by a crew of teenage K-pop fans. Clad in revolutionary crimson and goth sportswear, the scrappy gang performs sinister, synchronized choreography against a backdrop of Soviet monuments, Stalinist architecture, and illegal skate parks.  \nIn one image, two dancers perch on a dilapidated fountain. Spray paint covers the concrete edifice, and though the swirls of graffiti may imply a makeshift public forum—a collision of diverse and competing voices, in harmony and dissensus—  \nviolence mars the surface: A vandal has drawn a so-called sun cross, a symbol of the fascist far right. A second picture further alludes to the burst hopes of neoliberal democracy, as four Mylar balloons—cheerfully spelling out “1989”—sink to watery depths.  \nUnderpinning Nguyen’s video is the theme of the individual and the group: the need to belong versus the cruelty of the clique, the threat of loneliness versus the anonymity of the crowd. The teens’mundane hazing and bullying, directed against their Vietnamese-Polish peer, are constitutive to the formation of national identity, while the tight choreography may alternately suggest a communal bid for TikTok stardom or a disciplining of bodies into alienated abstractions.  \n“The hands in the factory correspond to the legs of the Tiller Girls,” Siegfried Krakauer wrote in 1927. Yet the bodies in If Revolution Is a Sickness are no mass ornament, with its links to centralized capitalist rationalization; instead, they point to a new, more elusive kind of emblem—an image of the painful erasure and demands for representation that undergird our networked and atomized present.  \n—Lloyd Wise  \nWeronika Nguyen is a high-school student in Warsaw, a future artist, and the lead actress  \nof my film. I found her on Instagram by combining a common Polish first name with my own Vietnamese surname. She is the only member of the group who doesn’t actually listen to K-pop or make dance videos, but after two weeks of daily rehearsals, we turned her into a dancer anyway. Here, she poses with Martyna Siedlarz and Laura Bło´nska. It’s unclear whether they are pushing her into the water or if she is trying to fall in on purpose, because she feels so different.  \nOCTOBER 2021 151  \nAlina Chołody (left) and Natalia Jankowska (right) in front of a defunct fountain at a small local park. Graffitied behind them are the Polish words for faith hope tolerance , but tolerance has been crossed out. On this day of filming, we improvised group tableau scenes of non-dance movements.  \n152 ARTFORUM  \nAlina, Jakub Grzybała, Laura, Martyna, and Weronika (from left to right) atthe legendary Powi´sle DIY, an illegal skate park under a bridge that spans the Vistula River. Jakub is probably the most famous K-pop dancer in Poland; his crew, @majestydanceteam, later returned to this location to film their own video, a cover of the single “First” by Everglow. 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