Maps, Modernities, Magic

Maps, Modernities, Magic – Symposium Date/Time: Sat, 4 Nov @ 9AM-4:30PM Location: Think Space 116 Nguyen Van Thu St. Dakao Ward, District 1, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam Language: English & Vietnamese Shifting the geopolitical towards a geopoetics—striding geomancy, poesy and prophecy–this intimate convening seeks to remap knowledge and aesthetic regimes. In the presentations, we queery modernity and its discontents: Southeast Asian (re-)enchantments and creative and critical interventions—spatial and spiritual reorientations. Keynote speakers Patrick Flores (Vargas Museum, Philippines) and Philippe Peycam (International Institute of Asian Studies, Leiden University, the Netherlands)...

Curator’s Talk: Agung Hujatnikajennong & Arlette Quynh-Anh Tran

Opening: 28.12.2014 @2pm Location: New Art Space 15 Le Loi, Hue City 2-3PM: What does the artist can benefit from Sàn Art Laboratory?  Sàn Art Laboratory is not a regular residency program; it is a place where the resident artists will be ‘encountered, challenged and debated’ constantly with different creative ideas and thoughts from their talking partners, curators, colleague resident artists and established artists, not only from local but also internationally. If you are practicing or desire the practice art that is based on research and experiment, and are wondering...

Arlette Quynh-Anh Tran

Arlette Quynh-Anh Tran was born in Germany, and then was raised up in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. From 2006 to 2007 she was hired to be assistant curator for 2 prominent curators / artist Rirkrit Tiravanija and Gridthiya Gaweewong in Saigon Open City project, the first attempt to realize a big-scaled manifestation of contemporary art in Vietnam. Following by a period contributing routinely in administrating field in multiple projects in Southeast Asia and Europe, Arlette then moved to Berlin to study history of art and philosophy. From February 2013,...