Directed by Joshua Oppenheimer
2014 BAFTA Best Documentary film, ranked one of the Top 10 films of 2013 by The Guardian, UK
Duration: 115mins
‘I have not seen a film as powerful, surreal, and frightening in at least a decade… unprecedented in the history of cinema’
– Werner Herzog
‘Like all great documentaries, The Act of Killing demands another way of looking at reality. It starts as a dreamscape, an attempt to allow the perpetrators to reenact what they did, and then something truly amazing happens. The dream dissolves into...
Opening: 22.05.2014 @6:30pm
Location: RMIT Saigon South campus, Melbourne Theatre
702 Nguyen Van Linh, District 7
Ho Chi Minh City
This lecture is about the poetics of mediation. It proposes a theory of the ‘animate image’ – an image that moves, that breathes, that remembers. I begin by considering the encounter between contemporary art and an older, ‘traditional’ kind of image, at an animist festival in Thailand’s northeast. The encounter serves as an entry-point into some of the challenges I have faced as a curator and a theorist, doing...
Opening: 10.04.2014 @6:30pm
Location: Hoa Sen University
Rm. NZ0204, 2th Floor
Hoa Sen University
8 Nguyen Van Trang, D.1
Ho Chi Minh City
Inrasara continues to unpack the history of the three ancient kingdoms of Vietnam, to remark on why history must acknowledge not only the dominant narratives of the past, but also the smaller, ethnic narratives that are equally significant to the union of a people, of a community, of a nation.
The Champa Kingdom (2nd Century-1832) expressed great harmony between different faith and peoples. This kingdom...
Opening: 08.04.2014 @6:30pm
Location: Hoa Sen University
Rm NZ0903, 9th Floor
Hoa Sen University
8 Nguyen Van Trang, D.1
Ho Chi Minh City
Inrasara will unpack the history of the three ancient kingdoms of Vietnam, to remark on why history must acknowledge not only the dominant narratives of the past, but also the smaller, ethnic narratives that are equally significant to the union of a people, of a community, of a nation.
There are plenty of myths about Vietnam, historical and literary. A myth makes its home between...
Opening: 28.02.2014 @10AM – 3PM
Exhibition on view until 01.03.2014
Location: San Art Laboratory
40/18 Phạm Viết Chánh, Bình Thạnh , HCMC, Vietnam
Circular versus Competitive Histories. History is not only the history of nations and civilizations. History is not tunneled and bounded by the nation. Since the earliest times, events have had their impact far across the borders of their location. How can we understand this other view of history, which in some ways, existed before the modern era? What are the implications for understanding history in...
