Talk by Vo Tran Chau and Tran Quang Duc

At the intersection of history and his-stories, Võ Trân Châu and researcher Trần Quang Đức (author of ‘A Thousand Years of Garments’) will share their journeys, one in making artworks and the other in excavating alternative historical threads. The session will be facilitated by Nguyễn Bích Trà, Sàn Art Manager. *** image courtesy Manzi Art Space and Tran Quang Duc...

Culture as driver for development

‘Today we are able to witness some of the world’s major heritage sites and rich cultural legacies: remnants from diverse world civilizations; from Machu Picchu to the Ancient Pyramids, from the Colosseum to the Parthenon, Angkor Wat and the Taj Mahal. […] Culture and the arts play a vital role in generating intellectual inspiration, reinventing traditions and generating social cohesion. Arts and culture shape our future; but moreover it is also often a solution to social problems within communities throughout the world. […] Artists have been instrumental in redefining development...

From Engaged Media to the relation of Body – Site – Virtualities

On mutual practice of media art to awaken public’s awareness of climate change, Mechthild Schmidt Feist and Tamiko Thiel will present their most significant individual works as visual artists and educators in New York, Germany and Singapore. Mechthild Schmidt Feist has engaged herself in New York environmental movement through various projects, including ‘Mirror Garden3’ which builds artificial Flora and alludes to the Icarus saga of human’s struggle to balance exploration of and interference with nature and her current project ‘L-E-S-S  / Less of Everything – Esthetics of Sharing and Sustainability’...

Sea (ex) Change – See a change? Sea Exchange? See a Exchange? Sex Change ?

Sumesh Sharma is a curator and co-founder of the Clark House Initiative which is located in Bombay India. Sumesh is currently a resident of Parasite, Hong Kong. At this time visiting HCMC Sumesh is spending his time working with San Art, having a talk presenting artist Rupali Patil and Clark House Initiative along with an intervention which is called Sea (ex) Change – See a change? Sea Exchange? See a Exchange? Sex Change ? Sumesh Sharma (1983) is a curator informed by alternate art histories that often include cultural perspectives...

A talk by guest artist: Frederic Sanchez

French/Vietnamese “San Art Laboratory” guest artist Frederic Sanchez (currently based in Shanghai) will talk about curatorial projects that he has developed in parallel of his artwork. He will also introduce his upcoming project: “Red”, a Monochrome exhibition at The Observatory, HCMC....