Olafur Gislason's 'Goldener Bambus' project for the exhibition 'Bi Fokal' addresses the relationship between the German Democratic Republic and its North Vietnamese allies. In the middle of a Socialist-era housing estate in Dresden lies the Chinese restaurant Goldener Bambus. Its owner, Dinh Truc Son, comes from Vietnam. Gislason recorded Dinh Truc Son's story. It is emblematic of the fates of thousands of contract workers who moved to the GDR in the 1970s and 1980s, and sometimes stayed on. In front of the Goldener Bambus restaurant stood a potted palm, a prop that bowed to popular clichés of the exotic. Gislason borrowed the palm for the exhibition. A short film documents the palm's journey from the Goldener Bambus to the Technische Sammlung, where it was concealed inside a wall.