Nguyễn Trinh Thi, 2022 Installation, mixed media Durational Blending elements of literature, sound, image, and technology, Nguyễn Trinh Thi creates a live theatre in which the wind from Tam Đảo forest in Vietnam takes center stage. And They Die a Natural Death takes inspiration from a scene recounted in the autobiographical novel Tale Told in the Year 2000 by Vietnamese writer Bùi Ngọc Tấn (1934 – 2014). Set in Tam Đảo forest outside a prison camp in Northern Vietnam in the 1960s, the scene recounts an incident where famished inmates stumble upon a wild bird’s eyes chili forest after an exhausting day of forced labor and become crazed for its taste, a flavor which reminds them of home.