March 7, 2009 from 7-10PM
Over the Opening
60 North 6th Street

Brooklyn, NY 11211

Secret School is pleased to collaborate with a team of economists led by Daniel J. Martin to create a functioning and participatory economy based on the gold standard. They will examine the global and political forces that drive the continued mining and hoarding of gold, and the ecological and humanitarian crises that result. Secret School and Martin will present a text that reframes, in a contemporary context, Adam Smith’s argument for the use of the gold as a medium of exchange.

I am really excited to be able to work with Lin + Lam, whose work I find incredibly powerful and moving, An Atlas Exhibit, and Basekamp. This should be a really great event and I hope you can attend.

This Is Not Me. Courtesy of Lin + Lam.

In Conversation with Lin + Lam

February 20, 2009 from 7-10PM
Basekamp
723 Chestnut Street
Philadelphia, PA 19106

Secret School invites you to a collaborative event with Lin + Lam to examine the geopolitical implications of statelessness. Reflecting on tightened US immigration policy and the closing of Guantanamo Bay in the next year, Lin + Lam explore the inability or refusal to claim belonging to a recognized state. Lin + Lam will lead a discussion arising from their recent projects “Even the Trees Would Leave” and “This Is Not Me.”

Secret School will respond to the issues raised through Lin + Lam’s projects, and the concurrent exhibit at Basekamp: An Atlas, an examination of radical cartography organized by artists Lize Mogel and Alexis Bhagat.

Secret School is now in session. Join us for the inaugural session:

featuring Hong-An Truong
January 17, 2009 from 7-10PM
OTO, 60 North 6th Street
Brooklyn, NY 11211

Secret School is pleased to present Wheel In the Sky, a three-channel video installation by Hong-An Truong. Wheel In the Sky investigates the possibilities of media to bear witness to moments of trauma and moments of poetry when human memory fails. As the video unfolds, the artist questions her father about his interest in the band Journey, and his responses reveal a frustration and acute sensitivity to the loss of meaning in the translation from their native Vietnamese tongue into English and vice versa. The conversation also suggests what impact the years of colonization have had on his perception of Vietnam’s most treasured art form, the poem.

I'm releasing a font set in conjunction with the "Anxiety of Desparation" Program at PS122. Here's some information:

Department of Defense
build your own insignia font set

These icons were extracted from Department of Defense and Air Force Insignias. While the full DoD seal is protected from misuse by law, the parts are open and available to the public.

Instructions for misuse: download at http://www.huongngo.com/dod.zip and unzip file.
Mac: drop in library/fonts. PC: Find font folder, File>Install Font. Type using Photoshop or Illustrator. Not yet Microsoft Word compatible.

Bert Stabler wrote a great essay about my work in the Feb/Mar issue of NY Arts Magazine.