Memory, Circulation and the Digital Archive

Opening: 18.12.2015 @6:30pm Location: Hoa Sen University Rm Marie Curie, 6F Hoa Sen University 8 Nguyen Van Trang, District 1     This lecture will discuss how more images, sounds, and videos are being produced in contemporary Asia than ever in the past. People with smart phones and low cost gadgets take millions of images, sounds and videos and share them with friends on networks. Our memories seem expanded exponentially, as we are now aided by digital storage on our media devices. New, digitally enabled archives of the past have...

Culture, infrastructure and the Digital

Opening: 17.12.2015 @6:30pm Exhibition on view until 06.04.2019 Location: Hoa Sen University Rm Marie Curie, 6F Hoa Sen University 8 Nguyen Van Trang, District 1     This lecture will explore infrastructures as material forms that connect populations, regions, and economies. Infrastructures of transport and communication for instance are crucial for the circulation of both economies and cultures. Infrastructures are at the center of media circulation by way of entangling people, objects, ideas and technologies. Digital infrastructures are dynamic environments; they break down, collapse and suddenly multiply in new ways...

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...

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...