I-EXHIBITION
Dear friends, after three months, “South country, the South of country”, an art collaboration project between ZeroStation, Vietnam and Outsiders factory, Taiwan has finished. Structurally speaking, this is pretty complicated project when it spread geographically to both Vietnam and Taiwan and when it contain interdisciplinarilly all different practices such as architecture, drawing, video art, performance art, installation art and graffiti
Regarding to discursive theme of the project, besides what was told explicitly in two curatorial essays by two co-curators, Nguyen Nhu Huy, from ZeroStation, Vietnam, and Nobuo Takamori, from Outsiders factory, Taiwan, one more key point that I would like to stress here is the self-reflexive aspect of this project
(read the curatorial essays here: https://www.facebook.com/notes/nguyen-nhu-huy/bài-viết-cho-dự-án-đất-nước-ph%C3%ADa-nam-ph%C3%ADa-nam-đất-nước-curatorial-essays-for-the/10151161706290673)
Seen from this perspective, this is not only an artist-in-residency based project, but also the project whose purpose is to question the very artist-in-residency model; not only an art collaboration project, but also the project whose purpose is to question the very activity of collaborating in art; not only a project where participants using contemporary art practices but also the project with its purpose to question on the very meaning of contemporary
we could summarize some questions this project aims to make as below:
1- Is art residency a space where invited artists have a chance to enjoy a comfortable and convenient time, to meet and make friends with other artists such as tourists, and to finish their residency time with a nice exhibition, or it is an intensively working environment where all invited artists must use all of their energy and skill to question not only new realities but their relations to it
2- Is art collaboration an easy relationship in the model of either mentor-students, or among accomplices, or it is a really difficult process which forces two (or more) sites to work together in conflicts, which is a result from such a competitive and challenging relationship and then the final product of two (or more) sites will be something in which at the same time these two (or more) sites still reach to a similar purpose, but still stay in their own identity.
3- Is contemporary art a pure space for symbolic objects where artists are the encoders inserting ther messages/puzzle into artwork and the audience are the decoders trying to puzzle them out, or it is an anthropoligical domain where artists become engaged anthropologists engaging to the real life, collecting date, researching, investigating, interviewing and by which making their work become a domain of facts which now are rearranged or developed to welcome all audience to participate actively in their proces of reinterpreting reality?
It is from the self-reflexive characteristics of the project “South country, the South of Country” partly shown in three questions above that we would like to make the final exhibition of the project not as a conclusion space where all materials which are document and artworks of artists participating in the project are accummulated, but as a new development, a new reading by us to the project. In other words, we would like to make the final exhibition as a self-reflexive space for the project itself.
Our idea for combining of 6 artworks/projects/document including both text and visual data by 12 artists both Vietnamese and Taiwanese in a final exhibition is to make a domain possibly imitating the contradict nature of a relationship space which is at the same time both absolutly independent and dependent, both absolutely documentary and symbolic, both disorganizing and self-controlling, both pubic and private…
It means, here, we would like to build a relationship space that could lay beyond all simple definitions not only about contemporary art, but also about all other factors that relate to it
In other words, through making an exhibition not as a conclusion for the project, but as sort of a continuing reading of it, we would like to see the project as being in continuity like our life, which are floating freely, in many complicated ways, undefineably and uncaptureably, and because of being undefineable and uncaptureable, being beatiful!
The exhibition will contain 6 artworks/projects by 6 pair of artists, Taiwanese and Vietnamese
1-“In the light”, by Trương Công Tùng và Adiong Lu
2-“Crossing the lines”, by Ngô Thuỳ Duyên và Lin Hsin Her
3- “If living is seeing, please hold your breath”, by Lã Huy và Cheng Ting Ting
4—Untitled #1 (goodbye song), Untitled #2 (For Elise), by Ngô Đình Trúc, and “Platform movie” by Lin Jin da
5- “Ideal lifestyle in Hochiminh city”, by Lin Wan Yu and Lâm Hiếu Thuận
6- “micro city”, by Bùi Công Khánh và Lin Shu Kai
The exhibition will also include a documentary room about the process of collaboration between artists in both Taiwan and Vietnam
Location: ZeroStation, quarter 288, Nam Kì Khởi Nghĩa str., ward.8., district.3, HCMC
Time: from 16th December 2012 –16th January 2013
The exhibition will open for public fron Tuesday to Sartuday everyweek
From Tuesday to Friday: 2:00pm- 6:00 pm
Saturday: 2:00-9:00pm
Exhibition Curator: Phan Minh Tuấn
Archiving manager for the exhibition: Trương Minh Quý
Artistic director of the exhibition: Nguyễn Như Huy
II-THE PROJECT:” INTENSIVE EXHIBITION VISITS”
Accompanying with this exhibition, we would like to organize a project namely “ Intensive Exhibition Visit”. As the name of the project has shown, this is the project that follows the structure of the same project that we organized in 2011. Summarily speaking, this project aims to conect contemporary art with local audience by creating a platform, which is one one hand, to help the local audience to approach to contemporary art, and on the other hand, to make possible for contemporary art to find its real meaning in the relationship, discursive and physical with local audiences.
During the exhibition time (in one month), we will organize several “intensive exhibition visits ”for the local audiences. In each “intensive exhibition visits”, local audience will be guided by curator, artist or member of the project on the structure and content of the project, as well as participated in an open discussion with the curator on several subjects such as “contemporary art with social issues”, or on the very collaboration process of artists participating in the project and on the very artworks by the Vietnamese and taiwanese artists.
Besides the local audience group we will approach and invite subjectively to the exhibition, we are open to welcome all other personal request from whoever who would like to visit the exhibition in the form of “the intensive exhibition visits” project. Anyone who are interested can email to us by the email address: zerostationvietnam@gmail.com, or can send a message to our facebook page:https://www.facebook.com/groups/112614168791247/?fref=ts
In your email or message, please give us your full name, career, and your cell phone number, as well as let us know which date and time you would like to do “intensive exhibition visit” in our space.
After having our confirmation by email or phone, the appointment is comfirmed for your “intensive exhibition visit”
You could register for ONLY you, or for your group.
Hope to see and discuss with you soon in the exhibition at ZeroStation
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