‘Ghost’ in contemporary art practice

Opening: 29.05.2013 @6:30pm Location: Sàn Art  3 Me Linh, Binh Thanh     Over the past month, Hung and Jompet have spent time together discussing their individual art practices and interests. They both realized they have an interest in the idea of ghosts as mythical presences that can reveal the past, but also as social symbols that have become lost tools who have forgotten their purpose. On Wednesday they will speak of their individual practice and conclude by sharing how their mutual fascination for the ‘ghost’ has taken new perspective...

‘Ghost’ in mythology, history and contemporary culture

Opening: 25.05.2013  Exhibition on view until 26.05.2013 Location: Sàn Art 3 Me Linh, Binh Thanh       This is a workshop given by Indonesian artist Jompet Kuswidananto, a visual artist whose interest in theatre and music has contributed to an artistic practice largely inspired by the re-discovery of cultural historical texts. In much of his work, the idea of a ghost as a forgotten memory or haunting social presence has given birth to kinetic installations where symbols such as military costume come alive with sound and light. In his...

Sàn Art Laboratory – Session 2: Artist’s talk

In this event, Nguyen Huu Tram Kha, Ngo Dinh Bao Chau and Tran Xuan Anh will share ideas, revelations, challenges and dilemma’s discovered over the course of the last 6 months as residents of ‘San Art Laboratory’. They will focus discussion on research and ideas concerning their artworks currently on display at San Art. Bao Chau will share her fascination for the science of light; Tram Kha will share her desire to empower women through their biological make-up; while Xuan Anh will explain her own questioning of what it means...

Clothes i wear, is it possible to have a global art practice?

Christopher Myers – Laboratory Artist in Residence in collaboration with Tran Minh Duc Christopher Myers – a visual artist who has shown work at PS1/MoMA in New York, and at various other venues in China, Ghana, Sudan, and curated here at our very own San Art will talk about making art in different contexts, and why there isn’t yet a true global art scene....

Sàn Art Lab Session 2 – Open studio 1 & Artist’s talk: Myanmar

Visitors are invited to the artist studios of Tran Xuan Anh, Nguyen Huu Tram Kha and Ngo Dinh Bao Chau to see how their work progresses. The tour is followed by a talk on ‘Myanmar’, given by Ho Chi Minh City artists Tran Minh Duc & Tung Mai. In 2012, Myanmar was the focus of much tourist, economic and social attention across the world. Tran Minh Duc and Tung Mai were invited to participate in two unique events in the capital of Yangoon – ‘Beyond Pressure’ organized by local artist...