Theresa-Xuan Bui

is an interdisciplinary poet working in performance, video, and sculpture.




SELECTED WORKS

together you’re home, now where are we?
as if our hands could hold the weight of promise
upon skin, upon stone
To Love So Freely,
Body Shop
Fweakiest Fwiday: A Gender Reveal Party
W(H)ELCOME
AAPIasinDDMS


SELECTED POETRY

Behind my boys’ backs, I dream of my boys, and falling in love
I’ll choose love every time
 TLDR; My poetry is bigger than your poetry
the intimacy of a distance
Going, Growing, We Go
I’m good at being self-sufficient
ATEASE
Ô ăn quan
upon skin, upon stone collection
Posturing

ARCHIVED 

I built a pool of gold so we’d always stay afloat
One with the prison, one with the promise, together we give each other form
FUBU
Untitled (Blue)
Basics with Bui: Learning the Letter E’s
Collective Ideation #5

PROCESS  JOURNAL

 Experiments in movement




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W(H)ELCOME

2022

A large field with a small white circle saying ‘Welcome’ stands atop a white pedestal. Outward-pointing feet line its margins, as if, standing on guard. Intersecting footprints enter the scene. From unmarked to star-encrusted, we recognize a transformation.

The household welcome mat sits at the entrance of a space as subtle and seemingly innocent to its audience. It marks a threshold and demands a yielding where one wipes the dirt off their soles to be accepted into another’s domain.

Whiteness adopts the form of the everyday welcome mat to perform the cunning change that occurs when one adopts its elements. All are susceptible to its enticing privileges. None are exempt; no matter what race, sexuality, or upbringing. The work brings light to how whiteness is an active process. It is one’s choice to cross, succumb to its power, be transformed, accept, and uphold its reign.