NHA SAN COLLECTIVE ART SPACE 3rd Floor, Block A, 9 Tran Thanh Tong, Hanoi, Vietnam Website: http://nhasanstudio.org Email: nhasancollective@gmail.com http://www.facebook.com/NhaSanCollective Tel: +84(0)982573643 (mr Thanh) +84(0)938148681 (mr Mami)
NHASAN COLLECTIVE Activities June-Oct 2013 October Open studio: “It is just smoke” Video party “WELCOME TO LU YANG'S HELL” September Open Studio “De/construkting Memories” Artist talk by Tuan Mami on his research on performance art in South East Asia Private collection and artist talk on the economic subsidy by Nguyen Manh Duc Artist's Book - Talk by Nguyen Hong Nhung Performance art event NIPAF - IN:ACT 2013 Open Studio: Andrea Radai and NGUYEN Trinh Thi Sound talk with Dennis Tan June Open Studio “Destruo”- Opening NHASAN Collective - Zone 9
DESTRUO, organized by Phan Thao Nguyen,includes work by: Phan Thao Nguyen Truong Cong Tung Appendix Collective Anahita Ghazvinizadeh Hyounsang Yoo
Hyoungsang Yoo’s photographic works recapture s7lls from television news, and explore the ambiguous contour between fact and fic7on.
Cong Tung quietly explores the medium of pain7ng. He uses external and natural elements like insects for a long dura7on to both destroy and deconstruct the surface of the canvas.
Appendix Group, the first performance art group in Vietnam, continues with their interest in “Somniloquy”, or “Sleep Talking”, in which simple gestures can carry deep thoughts about tradition, history and modernity.
Thao Nguyen Phan’s video installation is an investigation which takes place in a semi-conscious state and via the repetitions of a single gesture.
Deconstructing Memories, an open studio of three young photographers Nguyen Hoang Nam, Nguyen Hoang Giang and Nguyen Thuy Tien on 28.09.2013. Three young artists from Hanoi share the same interest about memories as well as existentialist questions about it in human existence.
Nguyen Thuy Tien’s artwork is a process of recovering her private memories. However, these memories are created by many other collective memories as well. With an effort of collecting pieces of memories from many people, she turns herself into an investigator and follows traces of women who appeared in her father’s life Nguyen Hoang Giang’s artwork seems to include all the three stages of memoy. Also shares the interest about family history, Giang collects old photos from his family album and tries to find out the identities of the people in these photos.
In Nguyen Hoang Nam’s artwork, we could see a process of encrypting his memories about a fragile “autonomous” – the poetic territory of flesh. Just like an explorer, he slowly explores and stores memories of his journey without a conscious but a sentimental and instinctive view instead.
IT IS JUST SMOKE Nha San Collective’s October open studio presents the work in progress of three artists: Nguyen Tran Nam, Nguyen Phuong Linh and Vu Duc Toan. Duc Toan is known for his quiet, thoughDul and metaphoric style of performance. In the open studio, Duc Toan represents documenta7on of his performance through photographs. The performance took place in Vi Xuyen Martyrs cemetery in Ha Giang . In the cemetery, instead of using incenses, Toan showed his respect to every soldier by trea7ng him or her a Thang Long cigareKe . The democra7c aLtude and the warm brotherhood of this act were recorded through photographs and videos. All cigareKes’ filters were re-‐collected only to be teared apart later, like Ruốc . The mixture of cigareKe smokes and incense smokes in Vi Xuyen matyrs’ cementry is a poe7c sugges7on of the concept of ‘res7ng’. The temporary rest, when soldiers put down their weapons, light up a cigareKe and chat, in comparison to an eternal rest, which is death itself.
Nha San Collective Members Artists
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Nguyen Phuong Linh Nguyen Quoc Thanh Nguyen Anh Tuan Mami Nguyen Trinh Thi Nguyen Manh Hung Nguyen Ban Ga Nguyen Huy An Vu Duc Toan Nguyen Tran Nam Chu Kim Duc
Bill Nguyen Truong Que Chi Bui Kim Dinh Do Tuong Linh Phan Thao Nguyen
Nguyen Hoang Giang Nguyen Hoang Nam Ngo Thu Huong Nguyen Thuy Tien Ta Minh Duc
Financial Project Managers Thach Ki Nam Nguyen Quynh Chi
Honor artists members Nguyen Manh Duc Tran Luong Truong Tan Nguyen Minh Thanh Nguyen Quang Huy Nguyen Minh Phuoc Nguyen Xuan Son
NGUYEN PHUONG LINH http://plinh.com Lives and works in Hanoi, Vietnam Nguyen Phuong Linh is the co-founder and organizer of Nha San Collective. Nguyen Phuong Linh’s art explores themes of transformation and the ephemeral. Her work is often both humble and exalted. In her recent work, the artist examines the traces of personal and collective memories as they are experienced across geographical boundaries. Her minimalistic artwork alludes to the pas, blurring deeply personal memories and national histories. Phuong Linh has participated in numerous contemporary art exhibitions, events, festivals in Japan, Korea, China, India, Jordan, Thailand, France, Germany, Italy, England and the US. As the daughter of the founder of Nha San, Hanoi’s longest established non-profit art space, Phuong Linh grew up in a community of creative. She started to curate at Nha San since 2009. Phuong Linh has been the co-founder and organizer of IN:ACT, an international performance art event held annually in Hanoi since 2010. In 2012, she curated Skylines with Flying People, an unprecedented multi-disciplinary exhibition and program of events held across numerous venues in Hanoi, including Japan Foundation, Goethe Institute, Manzi Art Space and Nha San Studio.
Nguyen Quoc Thanh http://thanhoi.tumblr.com/ Lives and works in Hanoi, Vietnam Thanh started photographing men with the "Roommates" series in 2008. It is an on going project of making pictures of men who work and/or live in the same space. As a photographer, Thanh is interested in visual presentation of male bodies, masculinity, desires from queer perspectives. He explores the conflicts between bodies, desires and history, culture, health policy, in addition to Vietnamese concepts about sex and gender. Currently he working on a project to explore Vietnamese/ Asian gay males strategies to find sex and romantic partners in online dating services. Nguyen Quoc Thanh is a Hanoi-based photographer. He graduated from the Warsaw University Poland, Master of Science. Nguyen Quoc Thanh co-coordinates and coorganizes “Five Flavor Flim Festival� annually in Warsaw since 2007. In 2013 Thanh co-found Nha San Collective.
Nuyen Anh Tuan MAMI http://tuanmami.com Lives and works in Hanoi, Vietnam Mami participated in international art events and exhibitions in Ho Chi Minh, Hanoi/ Vietnam; Berlin-Munich/Germany; Vienna/Austria; Shanghai/China; Singapore; Yangon/Myanmar; London/England; Tucuman/Argentina; Phnompenh/Cambodia, San Francisco, Los Angles, Chicago/America.He participated in artist-in-residence programs in: Casino Luxembourg/Luxembourg; Organhaus, Chongqing; 934Artspace, Kunming/China; Hooyong art center/S.Korea; Tokyo Wonder Site in Tokyo/ Japan; San-Art Laboratory in Hochiminh/Vietnam. In 2013, Tuan Mami co – found Nha San Collective “As an artist, my interest lies in engaging in ongoing experiments as means to creating and exploring new conceptions of interaction and exchange. My works often present a view in form like two sides of a coin; one, analyzing the condition of our encounters with each other, which often is a critique of the present state of society; the other, responding to and attempting to shift or change current forms of relation. My work deals with questions about life, meaning and social interactions between people. I re-construct a situation into which I engage people or objects from particular reality to enter and involve with me in a social process. “Art is like a game” which transforms one thing into another whether it deals with a big issue or a neglected one. What is life? What is art? What is the artwork? Who is the artist? ... I consider doing art as a way of challenging perception, to work with and follow the fast changes in life. I challenge myself to see other sides of things and find relationships between life and art. My works are site-specific, and re-constructional concept. I’m influenced by reality and I question it: what should we think to fit ourselves into the whole? I want to reconstruct a complex correlation between human desire and natural”
NGUYEN TRINH THI Born in 1973, Vietnam Lives in Hanoi, Vietnam http://nguyentrinhthi.wordpress.com Nguyen Trinh Thi is a Hanoi-based independent filmmaker and video artist and is the founder and director of DOCLAB, an independent centre for documentary film and video art in Hanoi. Her practice is vested in the exploration of memory in order to unveil hidden, displaced or misinterpreted histories as well as an in-depth examination of the position and role of artists in Vietnamese society today. Select exhibitions include Women in Between: Asian Women Artists 1984-2012, Fukuoka Asia Art Museum, Okinawa Prefectural Art Museum, Tochigi Prefecture Art Museum of Fine Arts, Mie Prefectural Art Museum, Japan (2012); The City in Art, Goethe Institut, Hanoi (2010); No Soul for Sale 2, Tate Modern, London (2012), Singapore Biennale (2013).
Nguyen Manh Hung http://hung6776.com Lives and works in Ho Chi Minh city, Vietnam. With a unique style as a Surrealist, his work often displays a fascination with vehicles and all things militaristic, juxtaposed with elements of daily life. His art draws on the national and cultural history of Vietnam, as well as personal and contemporary life experiences. Known as one of the most important contemporary artists in Vietnam, H첫ng has exhibited in a number of regional and international exhibitions including the Goethe-Institut, Hanoi, Vietnam; ARKO Art Center, Seoul, Korea; ifa Galleries, Berlin and Stuttgart, Germany; Stenersenmuseet, Oslo, Norway; ZKM Center for Art and Media; Karlsruhe, Germany; and the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, California, USA.
NGUYEN HUY AN Lives and works in Hanoi, Vietnam Member of Appendix performance art group Nguyen Huy An seeks to make connections between pessimistic psyches of human behaviour and the psychology that induces an obsession with memory. Selected exhibitions include Singapore Biennale (2013), ‘Sky Line with Flying People’, Hanoi, Vietnam (2012); ‘LIMDIM’, Oslo, Norway (2009) and “Sneaky Week Festival Performance”, Hanoi, Vietnam (2007).
Nguyen Tran Nam Lives and works in Hanoi, Vietnam Tran Nam is a multi-disciplinary artist who explores through his works an interrogation into the human psyche and modes of behaviour and interaction. Nguyen’s works often employ humour as a tool to further expound on the reciprocal influence between human and nature. Selected exhibitions include Singapore Biennale, ‘Hinterland’, Luggage Store Gallery, San Francisco (2012); ‘Gap’, Nhasan Studio, Hanoi, Vietnam (2010); ‘Indefinitely’, Ryllega Gallery, Hanoi, Vietnam (2008).
APPENDIX PERFORMANCE ART GROUP In 2010 Phu Luc (Appendix) collective was found with a core group of six artists. They are the most exciting performance art group to emerge in Vietnam. Appendix carefully constructs meditative, near theatrical scenes. Using minimal props, they perform repetitive actions over the course of several hours. With each member dressed in black slacks and a white office shirt, they stage their performances according to the strict rules of composition that these young artists were taught at the state run art academy in Hanoi. Appendix creates slowed down portraits of our rapidly changing, and increasingly difficult to define society. Their complex performances allows the audience to quiet down and slow down to their space, and to carefully consider the forces – the violence, values and traditions at work beneath supposed standardization and monotony.