The kingfisher’s beak: open studio & gathering

The kingfisher’s beak: open studio & gathering Date & Time: Sat, 12th Aug @4:00PM-8:00PM 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/English “The flight path and the view from the kingfisher’s beak – the art grocery store” The audience was welcomed to the open studio with the addition of video, site-specific, and photography works in collaboration with friends and colleagues of the artist. Formatted as an intimate party with coffee and some beer, the...

Leipzig Calling | Annotations on Architecture, Media and Life

Leipzig Calling | Annotations on Architecture, Media and Life Date & Time: Sat, 24th June @2:00PM-8:30PM 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 As part of the city residency exchange with LIA, Artist-in-residence Maix Mayer opened up doors for a continuous, two-part screening and open studio programme. It was a wonderful opportunity to meet the artist in an informal setting, learn about his research-based practice, and hear about the ways he engages science,...

Saigon-Leipzig Residency Exchange: Maix Mayer

Saigon-Leipzig: Ecologies of Water – Residency Exchange with Maix Mayer  The artist-in-residence for the first edition of our Saigon-Leipzig residency exchange in partnership with LIA is Maix Mayer. Maix Mayer works as a media- and conceptual artist in Leipzig, Germany. After earning a diploma in Marine Ecology at the University of Rostock, he also finished his studies at the Academy of Visual Arts Leipzig with a diploma in Fine Arts. At the University of the Arts in Poznan, Faculty of New Media, he successfully completed his Ph.D. in the relationship...

Fractured Lens: Memory, Archive, and Photography at an Intersection

Fractured Lens: Memory, Archive, and Photography at an Intersection Date & Time: Sat-Sun, 27 & 28th May @2:30PM-5PM 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 (tiếng Anh) As we enter a hyper-digitalized era, with the advancement of technologies in capturing, representing, and archiving memories and histories, one cannot help but feel overwhelmed at the retrospective prospects that this digital tsunami has to offer. Among human’s time-capsule devices, photography has long been hailed for...

Open Studio | Sàn Art Studio #2

Open-Studio | Sàn Art Studio #2 Date & Time: Fri-Sat, 19 & 20th May @3PM-8PM 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/English We were so happy to see the community pop in to see Artist-in-Residence Trần Thảo Miên’s haunting tree shrine-in-the-making at a 2-day open-studio event at Sàn Art. The open-studio was a great opportunity to meet the artist and get a chance to see a residency project in the making. We also...