Exploring African History, Geography and Politics through art projects

Opening: 28.08.2015 @6:30pm Location: Hoa Sen University Marie Curie Room – 6th Floor Hoa Sen University 8 Nguyen Van Trang, District 1       In the second lecture, curator N’Goné Fall will share with the audience the antecedents, challenges, and stakes of African contemporary art. The continent’s culture has always been viewed under “African stereotype”, especially those imposed from Western perspectives. This obsolete “heritage” burdens and hinders the artistic and cultural producers. Then what would they do? N’Goné will present a series of profound and interesting examples by artists...

Artist talk: Arin Rungjang

Opening: 08.08.2019 @4pm Location: San Art Laboratory house 40/18 Pham Viet Chanh, Ward 19, Binh Thanh district, HCMC.     Arin Rungjang will introduce two of his most recent works Golden teardrop 2013 and Mongkut 2015 A work composed of a video and an intricate sculptural installation of teardrop-shaped brass, loosely but carefully, Golden Teardrop layers the history of the sugar trade and personal narratives of Thai, Greek, Portuguese, and Japanese individuals in the fifteenth, seventeenth, twentieth, and twenty-first centuries, with the traditional Thai egg-yolk dessert thong yod (literally, golden...

Nostalgia from nature

Opening: 26.09.2015 @2PM Location: 98B COLLABoratory: First United Building, Escolta, Manila   This exhibition by Le Giang is on view at 98B space, Manila, the Philippines, as part of Prod/Ponder program in Conscious Realities. Le Giang’s current practice is based on the humankind’s non-existence and nature’s adaptation based on this absence as depicted in Alan Weisman’s book The World Without Us. Fascinated by the idea of a Utopia without the human race, her works probe on nature’s possible modes of adjustment if humanity is suddenly taken out of the picture;...

Arts and community: What next?

Opening: 25.06.2015 @6:30pm Location: Hoa Sen University Marie Curie Room – 6th Floor Hoa Sen University 8 Nguyen Van Trang, District 1     Communities provide materials, inspirations, reasons and worthy audience.  Over the last few decades, from rural to urban contexts, artistic experiments with communities have been intensifying and spreading. The artists’ engagement in a community can be as simple as serving the community members. Environmental concerns are often important reasons for artists’ interaction in the community. How can we evaluate these concerns, and what lessons are to be...

Community as an alternative way of life

Opening: 23.06.2015 @6:30pm Location: Hoa Sen University Marie Curie Room – 6th Floor Hoa Sen University 8 Nguyen Van Trang, District 1       Can community be a viable alternative way of life, economy and desire? A community is where certain commons are truly shared. Its advantage is in providing bounds that can be immediately and concretely felt by the individual and sensed by the state. But modern states and economies treat people as individual citizens and consumers: they call forth the modern idea of individual freedom, through a...