Synopsis:

Unsettled Assignments considers the networks of unsettled South-South relations produced through post-colonial conflicts and peacekeeping interventions in Southeast Asia.

Children were born in Cambodia in 1993 to African fathers serving in the United Nations peacekeeping troops. After "the fall of Saigon" in 1975, South Vietnamese asylum-seekers took refuge at the Philippine First Asylum Center, where they were screened, validated and sent to other refugee processing centres in the Philippines before finally leaving for the United States or other countries in the West.

Through a visual installation, workshop and film screening, Sidd Perez and Vuth Lyno read into the residues left by these foreign military bases and camp-towns within the region. They track the lives of this unresolved history of conflict and peacekeeping.

Perez is an assistant curator at the NUS Museum. Previously based in Manila, she is the co-founder of Planting Rice, an independent curatorial and resource platform, and worked as the curatorial associate for The Drawing Room.

Vuth is an artist, curator and artistic director of Sa Sa Art Projects, Phnom Penh's only artist-run space. His artistic and curatorial practice is primarily participatory in nature, exploring collective learning and experimentation, and sharing of multiple voices through mutual exchanges.