Back-to-Back – Week 3

Opening: 20.04.2018  Exhibition on view until 21.04.2018 Location: San Art reading room 3F, 264 Nam Ky Khoi Nghia, District 3   A few memories of our past programme Back-to-Back: A Collaborative Series of Discursive Encounters that took place in April 2018. In week 3 of Back-to-Back, we looked at Relational Aesthetics and Participatory art. Our core reading included essays by Nicolas Bourriaud, Claire Bishop, Anthony Downey, Thomas J. Berghuis and Joan Kee. Participants were asked to contribute by bringing visual material and questions to fuel discussions. While we began the...

Back-to-Back – Week 2: Performance Art

Opening: 13.04.2018 Exhibition on view until 14.04.2018 Location: San Art reading room 3F, 264 Nam Ky Khoi Nghia, District 3   A few memories of our past programme Back-to-Back: A Collaborative Series of Discursive Encounters that took place in April 2018. In week 2 we delved into Performance Art, a complex and non-linear thematic that spans over centuries and geographical boundaries. So instead of trying to create an irrelevant chronology of performance, we decided to change things up! Our participants were paired up and asked to prepare a short presentation...

Back-to-Back – Week 1: Conceptual Art

Opening: 06.04.2018 @6:30pm Exhibition on view until 07.04.2018 Location: San Art reading room 3F, 264 Nam Ky Khoi Nghia, District 3   A few memories of our past programme Back-to-Back: A Collaborative Series of Discursive Encounters that took place in April 2018. Week 1 focused on Conceptual art, as we explored key texts written by Apinan Poshyananda, Joseph Kosuth, Pamela Corey, Elisabeth Schellekens and Joan Kee. While initially questioning the value of “ideas” in art, the cognitive importance of aesthetics and debating the relevance of essays originating from the West,...