A Take Into Remembrance

A Take Into Remembrance: A Conversation Between Hans-Werner Kroesinger, Regine Dura, and Dinh Q. Lê  Date/Time: Tues, 19 Sept @ 7PM-8:30PM Location: Vườn Thảo Điền Số 34, Đường số 11. Thảo Điền Ward, District 2, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam Language: English & Vietnamese Understanding histories has never been as straightforward as reading a page, or looking at an artifact. Theater-maker Hans-Werner Kroesinger and Regine Dura have addressed pressing social issues with historically-informed performances over two decades. Visual artist, Dinh Q. Lê, whose work persistently challenged the popularizing affect of...

SILENCE | SATIRE – Rendez-vous: on ‘Silence | Satire’ and the practice of an Artistic Producer in the local context

Date: 01.06.2019 Location: Ca Phe Thu Bay Tre, Ho Chi Minh City In June 2019, San Art delivers the second edition of Uncommon Pursuits, this time, as a workshop centered on the intersection between visual art curation and theatrical production through hands-on theater-making exercises and intensive discussions about the performative body, sound, space, and time. The workshop instructors come from a wide range of visual and performative disciplines, including theater and film studies, physical theater, Noh acting, new media, theater design and theater production. Through the process of presenting and...

Back-to-Back – Week 3

Opening: 20.04.2018  Exhibition on view until 21.04.2018 Location: San Art reading room 3F, 264 Nam Ky Khoi Nghia, District 3   A few memories of our past programme Back-to-Back: A Collaborative Series of Discursive Encounters that took place in April 2018. In week 3 of Back-to-Back, we looked at Relational Aesthetics and Participatory art. Our core reading included essays by Nicolas Bourriaud, Claire Bishop, Anthony Downey, Thomas J. Berghuis and Joan Kee. Participants were asked to contribute by bringing visual material and questions to fuel discussions. While we began the...

Back-to-Back – Week 2: Performance Art

Opening: 13.04.2018 Exhibition on view until 14.04.2018 Location: San Art reading room 3F, 264 Nam Ky Khoi Nghia, District 3   A few memories of our past programme Back-to-Back: A Collaborative Series of Discursive Encounters that took place in April 2018. In week 2 we delved into Performance Art, a complex and non-linear thematic that spans over centuries and geographical boundaries. So instead of trying to create an irrelevant chronology of performance, we decided to change things up! Our participants were paired up and asked to prepare a short presentation...