Embedded South(s)

Opening: 03.11.2016 @ 7:30pm Exhibition on view until 06.11.2016 Location: Sàn Art Millennium Masteri Building Unit B6.16 & B6.17 132 Ben Van Don, Ward 6, District 4, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam (enter from Nguyen Huu Hao side)   Embedded South(s) is an online exhibition of moving images by artists (short-film, documentary and video art) that provides a window onto particular shared realities within an embedded south – such a context imbued with a set of attitudes and beliefs that integrally interweave, respond and cling to particular mutual experience and...

Dislocate

A solo show of Bùi Công Khánh Opening: 23.06.2016 @6:30pm Exhibition on view until 21.08.2016 Location: The Factory Contemporary Arts Center The Factory Contemporary Arts Centre 15 Nguyen U Di, Thao Dien Ward, District 2, Ho Chi Minh City ‘Dislocate’ is a solo exhibition by acclaimed Vietnamese artist, Bùi Công Khánh . It will be his largest and most ambitious art installation to date.  Walk into the world of ‘Dislocate’ by Bùi Công Khánh and the wood of the jackfruit tree springs to life referencing a myriad of social and...

Sketching Vietnamese History

A solo show of Quach Phong Opening: 09.07.2016 @6:00pm Exhibition on view until 02.08.2016 Location: Ho Chi Minh City Fine Arts Museum 97 Pho Duc Chinh, District 1 Ho Chi Minh City ‘Sketching Vietnamese History’ is the first large-scale solo exhibition by senior artist Quach Phong. This exhibition showcases the remarkable ambition of a man who, as an artist, has witnessed major scenes of war; endured the struggle of a nation in its Communist cause; and assisted the growth of artistic networks between North, Central and South Vietnam – all...

Memory, Circulation and the Digital Archive

Opening: 18.12.2015 @6:30pm Location: Hoa Sen University Rm Marie Curie, 6F Hoa Sen University 8 Nguyen Van Trang, District 1     This lecture will discuss how more images, sounds, and videos are being produced in contemporary Asia than ever in the past. People with smart phones and low cost gadgets take millions of images, sounds and videos and share them with friends on networks. Our memories seem expanded exponentially, as we are now aided by digital storage on our media devices. New, digitally enabled archives of the past have...

Culture, infrastructure and the Digital

Opening: 17.12.2015 @6:30pm Exhibition on view until 06.04.2019 Location: Hoa Sen University Rm Marie Curie, 6F Hoa Sen University 8 Nguyen Van Trang, District 1     This lecture will explore infrastructures as material forms that connect populations, regions, and economies. Infrastructures of transport and communication for instance are crucial for the circulation of both economies and cultures. Infrastructures are at the center of media circulation by way of entangling people, objects, ideas and technologies. Digital infrastructures are dynamic environments; they break down, collapse and suddenly multiply in new ways...