Kissinger/Nixon
In collaboration with Hồng-Ân Trương
Performance
2011

“What? A million pounds of bombs. A million pounds of bombs.
Well, no, they can bomb the bejesus out of us all over North Vietnam except in the Hanoi and Haiphong area.
Goddam, that must have been a good strike.”

Truong and I read the transcript of a well known recorded phone conversation between Richard Nixon and Henry Kissinger from April 15, 1972 in which they strategize the continued bombing of North Vietnam. Reversing pronouns so that I's become you's and we's become they's etc, subjectivity is confused, and the absurdity of language points to the irreconcilably cruel logic of the situation.