Hum a Tune | A Lecture Performance

Hum a Tune – A Lecture Performance Date/Time: Sun, 3 Mar @ 2-4PM 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 To understand the fascination in sound-making means dissecting the social history of the cacophony and the ‘noise’ makers (or the early forms of musical instruments) that have emerged from the particular relationship between humans and nature. Learning to create sounds is also learning to listen to them. To accompany the visual...

Everyone I know is sick: Screening Programme

Everyone I know is sick – Screening Programme Date/Time: Fri, 1 Dec @ 6-8PM Location: APSC Compound 35 Lily Road, 36 Thao Dien St. District 2, Thu Duc City, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam Language: English & Vietnamese Sàn Art is proud to partner with Visual AIDS and the Consulate General of the Kingdom of the Netherlands for Day With(out) Art 2023 by presenting “Everyone I Know Is Sick,” a programme of five videos generating connections between HIV and other forms of illness and disability.* The program features newly commissioned...

Participatory Performance with Ly Hoàng Ly

Participatory performance with Ly Hoang Ly Date/Time: Tues, 28 Nov @ 7AM-10AM Location: Sàn Art Millenium Masteri, Units B.16 & B.17 132 Ben Van Don, Ward 6, District 4, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam Language: Vietnamese Sàn Art invited our colleagues and audiences to participate in a performance with artist Ly Hoang Ly on Tuesday, November 28. As an open-ended conclusion to her open studio, the artist and participants walked together, opened up and carried on stories about the aesthetic and social values of performance art, about the possibilities of...

Maps, Modernities, Magic

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)...

A Take Into Remembrance

A Take Into Remembrance: A Conversation Between Hans-Werner Kroesinger, Regine Dura, and Dinh Q. Lê  Date/Time: Tues, 19 Sept @ 7PM-8:30PM Location: Vườn Thảo Điền Số 34, Đường số 11. Thảo Điền Ward, District 2, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam Language: English & Vietnamese Understanding histories has never been as straightforward as reading a page, or looking at an artifact. Theater-maker Hans-Werner Kroesinger and Regine Dura have addressed pressing social issues with historically-informed performances over two decades. Visual artist, Dinh Q. Lê, whose work persistently challenged the popularizing affect of...