Opening: 24.06.2014 @6:30pm
Location: Hoa Sen University
Rm. NZ507 (5th Floor)
8 Nguyen Van Trang,
Dst. 1, Ho Chi Minh City
This lecture will consider how contemporary art practices take up the problem of visualizing absence by archiving and creating around social and political erasure. As artists and thinkers, how do we identify and respond to stories, social histories, and conflicts which we experience as crucial to our understanding of our own history, nation, or family, but yet seem difficult to extract from the public domain, or remain...
Opening: 20.06.2014 @6:30pm
Location: Hoa Sen University
Rm NZ0903 (9th Floor)
8 Nguyen Van Trang
Dst. 1, Ho Chi Minh City
This lecture will explore the power of key visual and storytelling devices central to mythological narrative and their particular ongoing legacy in contemporary visual and popular culture.I will begin by looking at the architecture of the grand epics of classical Eastern and Western traditions, such as Homer’s Odyssey, the Ramayana and the Monkey King story.
Using such epics as lens, my lecture will elaborate upon why and...
A group exhibition of Adriana Bustos (Argentina), Christopher Myers and Hank Willis Thomas (USA), Nguyen Hong Ngoc (Vietnam), Sudarshan Shetty (India) and Than Sok (Cambodia)
Opening: 08.08.2014 @6pm
Exhibition on view until 30.10.2014
Location: Sàn Art
3 Me Linh, Binh Thanh
Ho Chi Minh City
San Art is pleased to present ‘Conjuring Capital’, a group exhibition inspired by the resourcefulness of six contemporary artists who challenge the time invested in labor as an exchange value that justifies and determines wealth. Participating artists include Adriana Bustos (Argentina), Christopher Myers and...
Directed by Joshua Oppenheimer
2014 BAFTA Best Documentary film, ranked one of the Top 10 films of 2013 by The Guardian, UK
Duration: 115mins
‘I have not seen a film as powerful, surreal, and frightening in at least a decade… unprecedented in the history of cinema’
– Werner Herzog
‘Like all great documentaries, The Act of Killing demands another way of looking at reality. It starts as a dreamscape, an attempt to allow the perpetrators to reenact what they did, and then something truly amazing happens. The dream dissolves into...
Opening: 22.05.2014 @6:30pm
Location: RMIT Saigon South campus, Melbourne Theatre
702 Nguyen Van Linh, District 7
Ho Chi Minh City
This lecture is about the poetics of mediation. It proposes a theory of the ‘animate image’ – an image that moves, that breathes, that remembers. I begin by considering the encounter between contemporary art and an older, ‘traditional’ kind of image, at an animist festival in Thailand’s northeast. The encounter serves as an entry-point into some of the challenges I have faced as a curator and a theorist, doing...
