Open-Studio | Sàn Art Studio #2
Date & Time: Fri-Sat, 19 & 20th May @3PM-8PM
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/English
We were so happy to see the community pop in to see Artist-in-Residence Trần Thảo Miên’s haunting tree shrine-in-the-making at a 2-day open-studio event at Sàn Art. The open-studio was a great opportunity to meet the artist and get a chance to see a residency project in the making. We also...
Earthly Palimpsests: A film screening programme
Date & Time: Wed, 10 May @6PM-8PM
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
As part of Sàn Art Studio #2, Sàn Art and artist-in-residence Miên presented a screening series focused on how artist-filmmakers are engaging with spiritual, political, and historical dimensions of the natural world. Composed of 5 short films produced by regional artists, this programme invited viewers to engage in a complex dialogue with, and...
“We make use of the tree in all kinds of forms, physically and spiritually…We worship gods and ghosts that reside in and on the trees, but no one actually pays respect to the tree itself.” – Tran Thao Mien
Our second artist-in-residence is Trần Thảo Miên, a Hanoi-based artist whose work approaches trees and other nonhuman beings through the Vietnamese belief “Van vat huu linh” (all beings are with souls).
In the process of material-based practices and experiments, Miên approaches arboreal and living creatures according to animism from an anthropological...
Trần Thảo Miên (b.1991) is a Hanoi-based artist. Her works explore the role of individual living beings on Earth, which she believes are individually, differently and equally important. Mien revisits the idea of the order of nature, where perspectives of the hierarchy are out of human hands.
Holobiont is the initiation, in which Mien questions whether human thought, touch, and emotions are controlled by microbial systems inside and outside our bodies. The (tree) Altar series then invite trees back to their long-forgotten-sacred-position, where trees once were offered and prayed to...
