By Eunice Sung A story of loss and suffering, family dynamics, beauty standards, refugee and intergenerational trauma, told through one woman, a projector and a chair. Susan Lieu, a Vietnamese American performance artist, entrepreneur and activist, lost her mother to plastic surgery malpractice in 1996 when she was just 11 years old. Her performance, “140 LBS: How Beauty Killed My Mother,” is a 75 minute, … Continue reading Performance artist brings audience to tears with one-woman show inspired by her mother’s death