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;...

‘Brand the Beloved Country’

Opening: 10.01.2015 @4:30pm Location: Sàn Art Lab 40/18 Pham Viet Chanh, District Binh Thanh, HCMC     In this lecture, Karen Fiss will share her current book project on ‘nation branding’, engaging postcolonial ideas and critiques of how a ‘nation’ is formed alongside an investment in integrating differing communities of people with vast networks of information technology and international trade. ‘My book examines the impact of government branding/propaganda campaigns on conceptions of citizenship and the construction of historical narratives, particularly in the wake of political conflict and trauma. I place ...

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...

Exploring Art with Eyes & Colors

Opening: 17.07@9 – 10 AM Exhibition on view until 21.08 Location: HCMC Eye Hospital 280 Điện Biên Phủ, District 3, Ho Chi Minh City   Within the project ‘Unconditional Belief’, Art Labor collective organize the program ‘Exploring Art with Eyes & Colors’ at HCMC Eye Hospital. This is a series of art classes, which are designed specifically for children inpatients at Pediatrics Department – the inpatients under the age of 15 who are operated, treated and cared at the hospital in 3-5 days. Having decreased vision, these children observe the...