Opening: 30.08.2014 @4pm
Location: San Art Lab Studio
48/7 Pham Viet Chanh
Binh Thanh, HCMc
Than Sok is an artist and performer from Phnom Penh, Cambodia. Fascinated by spiritual ritual, its structures and meanings, wary of how contemporary social attitude is changing understandings of what it means to ‘believe’, Than Sok will unpack his artistic practice that encompasses installation, drawing, performance, video and sculpture. He will also share his experiences of his past month residency in Ho Chi Minh City, to finally conclude his presentation with a special performance!...
Opening: 24.04@6pm
Location: Sàn Art
3 Mê Linh, Binh Thanh
HCMC, Vietnam
Art Labor will share how ‘Unconditional Belief’ started as a kind of laboratory of ideas that began with a particular hypotheses about simultaneous belief in modern medicine and spiritual healing. This artist collective of 3 will share how their original hypotheses changed as a result of undertaking research into such things as ophthalmology*, to the story of illiteracy in Vietnam and the creation of a Vietnamese modern alphabetic script, to the occurrence of the ‘Magic Garden’ in...
Opening: 12.04.2014 @4.30PM – 6.30PM
Location: Sàn Art Lab
40/18 Pham Viet Chanh,
District Binh Thanh, HCMC
Khadim Ali will discuss why he became an artist, sharing his lived experiences of researching mythic and contemporary realities of violence and beauty, between Quetta (Pakistan), Kabul (Afghanistan) and Sydney (Australia).
Khadim’s study of the art of the Persian miniature focuses on his re-reading of the ‘Book of Kings’, otherwise referred as the ‘Shahnameh’ (the epic book of poems by AbulQasimFerdowsi c. 977-1010 CE). In this literary masterpiece of Persian literature,...
Opening: 18.03@6:30pm
Location: Sàn Art Lab
40/18 Pham Viet Chanh,
District Binh Thanh, HCMC
Adriana Bustos’ drawing, photography and video practice engages investigative and documentary methods of research, evident in ‘Proyecto 4×4’ which looks at the lives of horses that belong to people who recycle cardboard in Argentina; to ‘Anthropology of the Mule’, which draws on the parallel stories of commercial colonial routes of trade and the drug trafficking routes in Latin America. Since 2012, she has been working on a project consisting of a series of maps...
Opening: 27.02.2014 @6pm
Exhibition on view until 29.04.2014
Location: Sàn Art
3 Me Linh, Binh Thanh
“The traditional analysis of knowledge […] takes knowledge to be a species of belief—specifically, justified true belief.” (Eric Schwitzgebel)[1]
“[…] (dominant among psychologists and psychiatrists), delusions are belief states – it is an important diagnostic feature of delusions that they can lead to action and that they can be reported with conviction, and thus that they behave as typical beliefs.” (Lisa Bortolotti)[2]
Belief has been one of the broadest and most debatable topics...
