Artist’s Talk: Gabby Miller

Artist’s Talk: Gabby Miller Disco Hole Research Time: 02.04.2019 @6:30pm Location: Sàn Art Notes from the artist: “Gabby Miller: Have been interested in: horizon lines, crossing over by sea, crossing over, heavy crude oil, the pacific ocean, containerships[1], platforms, swimming, Continue to be interested in: collaboration[2], meditation[3], bodies moving, buff bodies, sex, peep shows, disco, museums, “the anthropocene”/ “living in the ruins”[4], inheritance and trauma, family archives, “the century of progress”, war, buddhism, spatiotemporal transformation[5], gay sex, queers, infrastructure, generosity Currently more and more interested in: the subterranean, the underground,...

PopCorner #2: Hausu

Time: Saturday 30th March from 5pm to 6:30pm Location: Sàn Art Director: Nobuhiko Obayashi Year: 1977 Country: Japan Duration: 88 minutes Language: Japanese with English and Vietnamese subtitles A psychedelic ghost tale narrating 7 high-school students’ summer vacation gone awfully wrong… Weird, cheesy and visually striking, Hausu is a perfect film for lovers of art-house movies. More info: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0076162/ — PopCorner is a film programme organised by Sàn Art. From old-school classics to underground cinema, each bi-monthly screening will showcase a new thematic, genre, country or director. And in the...

PopCorner #1: Onibaba

Time: Friday 15 March 2019 from 5pm to 6:45pm Location: Sàn Art Director: Kaneto Shindo Year: 1964 Country: Japan Duration: 103 min Language: Japanese with English and Vietnamese subtitles Onibaba, a classic Japanese film known for its aesthetics of eroticism, is set in the 15th century in the midst of famine and civil war. It depicts the story of a woman and her daughter-in-law as they assassinate wounded and lost samurais in order to survive. More info: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0058430/ — PopCorner is a film program organized by Sàn Art. From old-school...

Minor Gestures: A Talk by Lian Ladia

  Minor artistic and curatorial gestures are minor revelatory actions exposing ruptures, which makes way for new emerging truths in exhibition making. Lian Ladia’s discussion will include case studies such as Khaled Hourani and Charles Esche’s “Picasso in Palestine”, Fred Wilson’s “Mining the Museum”, her own project with Sidd Perez, Planting Rice, a collaborative curatorial platform which started in Manila, Philippines and Carlos Villa’s “Worlds in Collisions” which will be featured in the coming Singapore Biennale in November 2019....

Withholding ‘us’:
Art, Politics and
the Problem of Appearance

Opening: 09.10 Location: Salon Saigon 6D Ngo Thoi Nhiem, Ward 7, District 3, HCMC     In this illustrated talk Brigid McLeer discusses her recent projects that explore how ‘we’ as subjects of the political can appear in the context of current global, and local, forces intended to ensure our disappearance in political terms. These projects include N scale, The Triumph of Crowds and a new work entitled The Regent’s Street. In particular the talk will examine how Brigid is using artistic and performance strategies to produce spaces, images, objects...