Opening: 30.11.2013 @5:30pm
Location: Sàn Art Lab
40/18 Pham Viet Chanh,
District Binh Thanh, HCMC
Based on their ongoing exploration on using food as material in recreating and photographing natural disasters, ‘The Weather Bureau’ (represented in Saigon by Lena Cobangbang) is prompted by the recent ravage of the Southern islands of Visayas in The Philippines. The overwhelming call for international awareness in coping with climate change and the everyday struggle one faces amidst the crisis brought on by natural disasters and social weathering (wars, economic embargos, economic policies), ‘The...
This will be an artist talk as performative interview. It will involve Phan Thao Nguyen and Ngoc Nau interrogating each other regarding subjects, materials, process and methodologies concerning each of their artwork production over the last 6 months as residents of ‘San Art Laboratory’. They will give you a window onto their trials and experiments with materials such as jute, charcoal, neon, bronze, oil on x-ray film and light, sharing not only the in-depth research they carried out of these materials, but also their analysis of the history and meaning...
In a very rare occasion to hear about Cambodian contemporary art in Vietnam, internationally renown artist Sopheap Pich (b.1971) will share his life as a contemporary artist living and working in Cambodia.
Trained as a painter in The United States, Sopheap Pich returned to his country in 2002. His art employs natural materials, primarily rattan and bamboo, to weave and form abstract, representative and metaphorical artworks. His conceptual sculptures refer to Cambodian historical memory and their divergence between traditional culture and modern life....
Noraset Vaisayakul is a Thai conceptual artist with a body of handcrafted pieces, all bearing diverse forms but consistent meaning. He will share with the audience his works so far and the research project he is carrying out in Ho Chi Minh City this September....
Artist – filmmaker Nguyễn Trinh Thi discusses the similarities and differences between written text and visual art (video art, film, photography) in the re-reading of the past and her experimentation with chronicled and historical material to form new creative artworks.
Artist John Monteith and poet BT Shaw also share their working experiences in relation to the works exhibited in ‘Echoing Nostalgia’....
