Ocean Vuong
Would you like to be living in whipped cream — soft, curtailed, radical tenderness? Or to root yourself like a luminescent rhododendron, with shallow roots but sure growth, nourished by affective intensities? Estelle Hoy’s ode to the life and oeuvre of Ocean Vuong calls us to this path: to be seen, to rebuild what was shattered. Amid the calls of fruit sellers, the sweetness of stripy cannoli stands, and rendezvous with lovers, we listen for the whisper: “to be shattered & rebuilt”. Ocean Vuong’s silver feather earring swings sparingly, a quiet emblem of restraint. Here, in these fractured streets and fleeting gestures, we encounter meaningful disobedience, an ethics of immanent experimentation, and the earnest pulse of chosen family.
Written by Estelle Hoy. Introduction and outro voiced by Johnny Vivash. Editing and sound design by Tobias Withers. Curated by Justine Gensse. Produced by the Extra Extra team.
