Arts and community: What next?

Opening: 25.06.2015 @6:30pm Location: Hoa Sen University Marie Curie Room – 6th Floor Hoa Sen University 8 Nguyen Van Trang, District 1     Communities provide materials, inspirations, reasons and worthy audience.  Over the last few decades, from rural to urban contexts, artistic experiments with communities have been intensifying and spreading. The artists’ engagement in a community can be as simple as serving the community members. Environmental concerns are often important reasons for artists’ interaction in the community. How can we evaluate these concerns, and what lessons are to be...

Community as an alternative way of life

Opening: 23.06.2015 @6:30pm Location: Hoa Sen University Marie Curie Room – 6th Floor Hoa Sen University 8 Nguyen Van Trang, District 1       Can community be a viable alternative way of life, economy and desire? A community is where certain commons are truly shared. Its advantage is in providing bounds that can be immediately and concretely felt by the individual and sensed by the state. But modern states and economies treat people as individual citizens and consumers: they call forth the modern idea of individual freedom, through a...