Altered States of Being | Performance Meditations || Artist Talk with Patricia Nguyễn

Altered States of Being | Performance Meditations: Artist Talk with Patricia Nguyễn Date & Time: Wed, 22 Feb @5:00PM-7:00PM Location: Sàn Art Millenium Masteri, Units B.16 & B.17 132 Ben Van Don, Ward 6, District 4, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam Language: English “altered states of being | performance meditations” is an artist talk that delves into Patricia Nguyễn’s performance methods, where she engages with memory, cartographies of migration, dispossession, nation-building, and somatics to investigate processes of knowledge and historical production. She discusses the use of improvisation, archival research, sensorial...

Les Enfants Terribles: A Screening Programme

Les Enfants Terribles: A Screening Programme 9 Dec, 2022 – 13 Jan, 2023 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 only* Taking inspiration from the rebellious, playful, and irreverent nature of its current exhibition Don’t Call it Art!, Sàn Art presents a series of weekly art-house screenings attesting to the anti-mainstream, the transgressive and experimental spirit featured at our space. Much like the artists present at the gallery, the maverick filmmakers featured in...

Expanding the Archive: a Wikipedia Edit-a-thon workshop

Expanding the Archive: a Wikipedia Edit-a-thon workshop Date & Time: Sat, 4 Feb @9:40AM-12:00PM Location: Sàn Art Millenium Masteri, Units B.16 & B.17 132 Ben Van Don, Ward 6, District 4, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam Language: English only* From imagined archives to the creation of counter archives, or to artwork sourced directly from state-run, private or national archives, during the past century, artists have used archives for the creation of their work. While the ‘archival turn’ took central stage in contemporary theory, art and art criticism, the normative ambitions...

immaterial intimacies: XXX-mas Artist on Artist Special @ Sàn Art

immaterial intimacies @ Sàn Art Date & Time: Thurs, 22 Dec @5-7PM 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 Through material investigations, Bruce Yonemoto and Việt Lê explore immaterial realms, divining queer hopeful poetics. Through their individual collaborations with spirit mediums, artisans, and local Vietnamese community members, the artists challenge the limits of Cartesian bodies of knowledge, geopolitical boundaries, as well as postcolonial intimacies. Both artists evoke time-honored rituals as well...

Jakob Schauer and Phạm Thế Vũ: Performance

Jakob Schauer and Phạm Thế Vũ – Performance Date & Time: Sun, 18 Dec @4-6PM 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 only* Musician and performer Jakob Schauer joined forces with HCMC-based performer Phạm Thế Vũ for a can’t-miss concert at Sàn Art this past December. The performance was followed by an informal discussion with Jakob and Vũ on artistic inspirations, musical approaches, and more. * Due to a lack of resources, the...