Conscious Realities – Book 1

By what means do we look at the world with a conscious and curious mind in the 21st Century? How do we define, and archive, the physical and psychological local characteristics of our community? Is it with a comparative awareness of its layered complexity in time, space and memory? ‘Conscious Realities – Reader 1’ is out now, nationwide! This bilingual publication opens a doorway to these questions, targeting Vietnamese readers, featuring new translation of philosophical, scholarly and artistic texts by some of today’s most esteemed thinkers and makers who inform...

On photography

Code:  02-034 Publisher: Picador USA: Farrar, Straus and Giroux ISBN: 0312420099 Intro: In an essay for ‘Choose to move’ exhibition, author Quyen Bao quoted from the book ‘On Photography’ by Susan Sontag to talk about the artworks by the artist Orawan Arunrak. Indeed, this is a very important book discussing image-related practice or observation, no matter if you are visual artist, photographer, art historian, anthropologist, journalist, advertiser, and portrait painter… It is also very helpful for anyone who would love to understand more profoundly other artworks in this exhibition. This...