a Saigon-based art residency, in partnership with the Goethe-Institut
Ho Chi Minh City, and support from Amanaki Thao Dien

Vănguard

Vănguard is a living archive, amplifying LGBTQ+ and femme Vietnamese artists. Ran by members of the community in Vietnam with contributions from LGBTQ+ Vietnamese artists around the world.

Vănguard là một kho lưu trữ sống, một hệ sinh thái những nhà sáng tạo, nghệ sĩ LGBTQ+ Việt, vận hành bởi thành viên của chúng mình tại Việt Nam với sự đóng góp từ nhiều nghệ sĩ LGBTQ+ Việt quanh thế giới.

Learn more about their work | Tìm hiểu thêm tại: https://www.instagram.com/vanguard.zine

AVAILABLE PUBLICATION | CÁC ẤN PHẨM CÓ SẴN

Trầm Tích: Unearthed Memories

Trầm Tích—a living archive featuring 41 trans and nonbinary Vietnamese artists living across the motherland and diaspora.
—is the sediment that builds up over time, memory layered upon memory, stories that unearth other stories. This book is an act of remembering and reclaiming: an excavation of buried truths shaped by time, migration, resilience, loss, and love.

Trầm Tích began as a response to the systemic erasure of trans and non-binary lives in the U.S., and with time, it became our collective vision for the future — to build a community archive that is decentralized, ever-growing, and indestructible. Trầm Tích calls on us to unearth what was hidden, reimagine what is possible, and plant new roots.

This is not just another book to us. It’s a beginning — an invitation to connect, to remember, to build, and to thrive together. We hope it becomes a space not just for storytelling, but for tangible care and action — a living archive made stronger by the people who hold it down and carry it forward.

Price: 800.000 VND