Maps, Modernities, Magic – Symposium
Date/Time: Sat, 4 Nov @ 9AM-4:30PM
Location: Think Space
116 Nguyen Van Thu St.
Dakao Ward, District 1,
Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
Language: English & Vietnamese
Shifting the geopolitical towards a geopoetics—striding geomancy, poesy and prophecy–this intimate convening seeks to remap knowledge and aesthetic regimes. In the presentations, we queery modernity and its discontents: Southeast Asian (re-)enchantments and creative and critical interventions—spatial and spiritual reorientations. Keynote speakers Patrick Flores (Vargas Museum, Philippines) and Philippe Peycam (International Institute of Asian Studies, Leiden University, the Netherlands)...
immaterial intimacies @ Sàn Art
Date & Time: Thurs, 22 Dec @5-7PM
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 + Vietnamese
Through material investigations, Bruce Yonemoto and Việt Lê explore immaterial realms, divining queer hopeful poetics. Through their individual collaborations with spirit mediums, artisans, and local Vietnamese community members, the artists challenge the limits of Cartesian bodies of knowledge, geopolitical boundaries, as well as postcolonial intimacies.
Both artists evoke time-honored rituals as well...
Discussion & Workshop with Việt Lê, MFA, PhD
This event is part of the program Vườn Lài ăn khoai chấm mật
Time: 29.02.2020 @ 3pm
Location: Sàn Art
Millennium Masteri
Unit B6.16
132 Bến Vân Đồn, Ward 6, District 4,
Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
(enter from Nguyen Huu Hao side)
In this 3-part talk and workshop focused on queer experimental video and mainstream visual cultures, we collectively examine and discuss:
– Artistic responses to structural violence
– Queer Asian and Asian American artists & the Limits/ “Sticking Points”...
Việt Lê is an academic, artist, writer, and curator whose work centers on spiritualities, trauma, representation, and sexualities with a focus on Southeast Asia and its diasporas. Dr. Lê, Associate professor at California College of the Arts, is the author of Return Engagements: Contemporary Art’s Traumas of Modernity and History in Sài Gòn and Phnom Penh (Duke University Press, 2021). The art book White Gaze is a collaboration with Latipa (Sming Sming Books, 2019, second edition) is in the collections of the Guggenheim, Victoria and Albert Museum, SF MOMA, among...
This exhibition aims to raise funds, through sale of work, to enable the future sustainability of San Art.
