Exploring Art with Eyes & Colors

Opening: 17.07@9 – 10 AM Exhibition on view until 21.08 Location: HCMC Eye Hospital 280 Điện Biên Phủ, District 3, Ho Chi Minh City   Within the project ‘Unconditional Belief’, Art Labor collective organize the program ‘Exploring Art with Eyes & Colors’ at HCMC Eye Hospital. This is a series of art classes, which are designed specifically for children inpatients at Pediatrics Department – the inpatients under the age of 15 who are operated, treated and cared at the hospital in 3-5 days. Having decreased vision, these children observe the...

The value of artistic labor as a laboratory of ideas

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...

Unconditional Belief

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...