Convergence and Departure: Engagements in Moving-Image

  Titled ‘Convergence and Departure: Engagements in Moving-Image’, this three-part screening programme endeavours to expand the reach of moving-image in contemporary art discourse in Southeast Asia. In fourteen videos, selected from the collection of the Han Nefkens Foundation, artists bend genre to grapple with rupture and hybridity, presenting other ways of being, other modes of seeing, other methods of creating, other histories, temporalities, and geographies. From works that animate the polyphonic world around us to those that deal with loss and dislocation on a personal, historical, and ecological scale, the...

Hum a Tune | A Lecture Performance

Hum a Tune – A Lecture Performance Date/Time: Sun, 3 Mar @ 2-4PM 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 To understand the fascination in sound-making means dissecting the social history of the cacophony and the ‘noise’ makers (or the early forms of musical instruments) that have emerged from the particular relationship between humans and nature. Learning to create sounds is also learning to listen to them. To accompany the visual...

S.E.A FOCUS 2024

S.E.A FOCUS 2024 Time: 20.01.2024 – 28.01.2024 Location: Tanjong Pagar Distripark, 39 Kepple Road, Singapore.  View the media release here.  S.E.A Focus is a leading showcase and art market hub that aims to bring together a fine curation of established and emerging artists in Southeast Asia. Titled “Serial and Massively Parallel”, the showcase for 2024 focuses on the interplay between humanity and technology. Alongside the exhibitions is SEAspotlight talks, a panel discussion inviting three speakers Yee I-Lann (Silverlens), Heri Dono (The Columns Gallery), and Dinh. Q. Lê (STPI – Creative...

Everyone I know is sick: Screening Programme

Everyone I know is sick – Screening Programme Date/Time: Fri, 1 Dec @ 6-8PM Location: APSC Compound 35 Lily Road, 36 Thao Dien St. District 2, Thu Duc City, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam Language: English & Vietnamese Sàn Art is proud to partner with Visual AIDS and the Consulate General of the Kingdom of the Netherlands for Day With(out) Art 2023 by presenting “Everyone I Know Is Sick,” a programme of five videos generating connections between HIV and other forms of illness and disability.* The program features newly commissioned...

Participatory Performance with Ly Hoàng Ly

Participatory performance with Ly Hoang Ly Date/Time: Tues, 28 Nov @ 7AM-10AM Location: Sàn Art Millenium Masteri, Units B.16 & B.17 132 Ben Van Don, Ward 6, District 4, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam Language: Vietnamese Sàn Art invited our colleagues and audiences to participate in a performance with artist Ly Hoang Ly on Tuesday, November 28. As an open-ended conclusion to her open studio, the artist and participants walked together, opened up and carried on stories about the aesthetic and social values of performance art, about the possibilities of...