Please join the artist for the last day of his solo exhibition ‘Dislocate’. Bui Cong Khanh shall share his two-year journey in realizing what is his most significant installation to date, showcasing the brilliance of Vietnamese culture in history and technique.
‘‘Dislocate’ is a kind of fortress. The central structure, likened to a bunker, is deliberately left incomplete; its roof and walls are not solid, possessing space between beams where wall panels are spread randomly throughout. Taking traditional imperial architectural techniques of Hue¹ as its style, Bui chose the design...
San Art Laboratory session 8 would like to invite everyone to the talk show with Questal Tay (Singapore), Nguyễn Quốc Dũng (Vietnam) and Dara Kong (Cambodia), the three artists of Session 8 – the last session of residency program of Sàn Art Laboratory. Let’s explore their journey in the last 5 months to overcome or twist the social expectations: by peering through the wounds of a piece of fabric, gazing into the eyes of a discriminated painted subject, or following the maps of an alienated stranger. Let’s discuss their artistic...
This March, Hoa Sen University’s Art House Saigon will hold Mini Docfest, a series of documentary and experimental films, in Ho Chi Minh City for the first time.
San Art and Hanoi DocLab have co-selected a number of experimental films / documentaries by young film makers from Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh city. The two-day film screening will include discussions with professor Michael Brynntrup (Hanoi DocLab instructor), film maker Truong Minh Quy, and mephim’s co-founder Tran Minh Duc amongst others.
Mini DocFest – Saigon version is sponsored by Goethe Institute...
‘San Art Laboratory’ and the Artist Talk by Lena Bui had regrettably been canceled. This is due to license restrictions. San Art apologizes for any inconvenience that this may cause.
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Starts at 6PM with a talk by Lêna Bùi about her 2015 project in Nepal, where she worked with women living in the historical area of Patan in Kathmandu as well as researchers from the Oxford Clinical Research Unit Nepal who studies waterborne disease in the area. Lêna will share her experiences of creating a safe storytelling space by...
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...
