Fractured Lens: Memory, Archive, and Photography at an Intersection
Date & Time: Sat-Sun, 27 & 28th May @2:30PM-5PM
Location: Sàn Art
Millenium Masteri,
Units B.16 & B.17
132 Ben Van Don, Ward 6, District 4,
Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
Language: English (tiếng Anh)
As we enter a hyper-digitalized era, with the advancement of technologies in capturing, representing, and archiving memories and histories, one cannot help but feel overwhelmed at the retrospective prospects that this digital tsunami has to offer. Among human’s time-capsule devices, photography has long been hailed for...
Expanding the Archive: a Wikipedia Edit-a-thon workshop
Date & Time: Sat, 4 Feb @9:40AM-12:00PM
Location: Sàn Art
Millenium Masteri,
Units B.16 & B.17
132 Ben Van Don, Ward 6, District 4,
Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
Language: English only*
From imagined archives to the creation of counter archives, or to artwork sourced directly from state-run, private or national archives, during the past century, artists have used archives for the creation of their work. While the ‘archival turn’ took central stage in contemporary theory, art and art criticism, the normative ambitions...
The Lost Tapes: Artistic Approaches to Microhistories – Workshop
Time: Sun, Oct 23 @10AM-2PM
Location: Sàn Art
Millenium Masteri,
Units B.16 & B.17
132 Ben Van Don, Ward 6, District 4,
Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
Called the “science of real life” by historians Carlo Ginzburg and Carlo Poni, “𝗺𝗶𝗰𝗿𝗼𝗵𝗶𝘀𝘁𝗼𝗿𝘆” describes an approach to 𝘀𝘁𝘂𝗱𝘆𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗵𝗶𝘀𝘁𝗼𝗿𝘆 that employs what we could think of as a 𝗺𝗶𝗰𝗿𝗼𝘀𝗰𝗼𝗽𝗶𝗰 𝗹𝗲𝗻𝘀, focusing on seemingly irrelevant details, habits and routines, and underlying mentalities. Such studies can serve as “histories from below,” 𝗴𝗶𝘃𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘃𝗼𝗶𝗰𝗲 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗿𝗲𝗽𝗿𝗲𝘀𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻...
Jacqueline Hoàng Nguyễn is a visual artist and currently a Visiting Scholar at Fulbright University Vietnam while conducting her PhD in the ‘Art, Technology and Design,’ a joint program offered by Konstfack and KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm, Sweden. She is a researcher and a visual artist using archives and a broad range of media to investigate issues of historicity, collectivity, utopian politics and multiculturalism via feminist theories. Nguyễn’s work has been shown internationally, such as at the Borås Art Biennial, Borås (2021); Bonniers Konsthall, Stockholm (2021); Trinity...
Please join us for a talk by artist Jacqueline Hoang Nguyen, hosted by Galerie Quynh, co-organized by San Art and dia/projects.
