Cloud Chamber, Aug 17 – Nov 24, Para Site, Hong Kong

Para Site is pleased to present ‘Cloud Chamber’, the first institutional exhibition to survey the activities of Art Labor, a Ho Chi Minh City-based collective formed by Thao Nguyen Phan, Truong Cong Tung and Arlette Quynh-Anh Tran.

The exhibition ‘Cloud Chamber’ presents Art Labor’s long-term historical research, poetic observations, and decade-long practice of relationship-building with the Jrai community in the Central Highlands of Vietnam. Alongside Art Labor’s newly commissioned and existing works, the exhibition features artwork from Jrai artists, with whom the collective has created collaborative projects since 2016, archival material from a missionary-turned-anthropologist in the French colonial period, and works by contemporary artists inspired by the region.

By reframing the region beyond its turbulent past, ‘Cloud Chamber’ looks to engage the audience in an imaginative reflection on the region’s complex history and its ongoing impact, from war, industrialisation, to the lingering effects of missionary activity. The exhibition title ‘Cloud Chamber’ alludes to the duality of matter and antimatter reacting to one another, a concept echoed by reincarnation beliefs in indigenous cosmologies of the Central Highlands. Expanding on this duality like a gravitational field, the exhibition explores the interplay of opposing forces—regeneration and destruction, modernity and tradition, reality and dream—that continues to shape the complex dynamics and ever-changing landscape of the Central Highlands today.

Within an exhibition setting, a constellation of artworks and happenings explores collisions between science and mythology, human and non-human—to open up spaces for new forces of change to emerge. Jrai wood-carved sculptures and musical instruments are presented alongside moving image, installation, drawings and archival photographs that together weave a counter-narrative to prevalent representations, past and present, of the Central Highlands.

Art Labor’s collaborative projects, which often take on a peripatetic, rhizomatic pattern, embody a process of continuous adaptation and evolution, akin to the journey of seeding, nurturing, and cultivating. Prior to the exhibition at Para Site, ‘Cloud Chamber’ was developed through intensive field research and ongoing exchanges in the Central Highlands, which culminated in a series of activations in July 2024 that took place across various locations.

In the Central Highlands, the Jrai community and Art Labor engaged in a series of public gatherings, open air exhibitions, and events that included sculpture displays, film screenings, live musical performances, and outdoor installations. Through the exhibition hosted by Para Site, the journey extends beyond the Central Highlands to Hong Kong, as the ideas and relationships formed during the year-long process continue, creating new connections within an expanded network of collaborators.

‘Cloud Chamber’ features work by Art Labor (Thao Nguyen Phan, Truong Cong Tung, Arlette Quynh-Anh Tran), in collaboration with Jacques Dournes, Nguyen Phuong Linh, Puih Gloh, Puih Han, Rahlan Loh, Rcham Jeh, R Cham Tih, Romah Aleo, Siu Huel, Siu Kin, Siu Lon, and Truong Que Chi.

‘Cloud Chamber’ is curated by Celia Ho.

‘Cloud Chamber: Central Highlands Journey ’ is commissioned by Para Site, Hong Kong and T:> Works, Singapore.

Per°Form Open Academy of Arts and Activations, T:>Works, 13-16 April, 2023, Singapore

13 Apr: Keynote: Art Labor

The vibrations of forms of water - molecules of hydrogen - can shift both a terrain and a social structure and thus the politics of the local. In the folklore of the Jrai people, one of the ethnic minority groups living in the Central Highlands of Vietnam, whom Art Labor has been collaborating with, the water movement into “in-between” forms – the "trans" – indicates the landscape and the environment's changes, from rivers and underground spring streams, dew drops, summer breezes, to natural disasters.

In the keynote, Art Labor will immersively recreate JUA - a state/field of water moving in the air and will share thoughts, activities, and resonances of this “water thought” in the village community, including human and all living beings, revealing the relationships, imaginativeness, and challenges.

Art Labor is an artist collective based in Ho Chi Minh City, working in between visual arts, social and life sciences in various public contexts and locales.

The collective does not produce artwork but develop many-year-long journeys during which one inspiration is a seed to cultivate. The seed grows – the inspiration expands and bears into rhizome of projects and artworks.

This event is free with registration.

Per°Form Open Academy of Arts and Activations is the inaugural live gathering of 14 Per°Form Fellows from the Global South – Africa, Arab World, Asia-Pacific, the Caribbean, South America – and its diaspora. These Fellows, intersectional practitioners across diverse disciplines of curation, research, education, visual culture, performance, will present their strategies for activating contexts and communities. Per°Form is conceptualised and led by T:>Works Artistic Director, Dr. Ong Keng Sen. This fellowship platform began in March 2021 through the format of digital keynotes by Singapore fellows. With Per°Form, T:>Works aims to cut across silos, disciplines, and fields to support contextualised research, situated practices, and translocal knowledge production as shared resources for the future. In particular, Per°Form focuses on the arts practitioner as a thought leader engaged in care and repair, actively bridging histories, the precarious present, and world-creating.

Contact us

- For more information on Per°Form Open Academy of Arts and Activations, visit performfellowship.org.

- For any enquiries, email ticketing.tworks@gmail.com or call at 6737 7213.

Hacer Noche, Promised Land, 04 Sep-04 December 2022,  2022,Oaxaca, Mexico

Paradise Kortrijk 2021, Triennial for contemporary art, June 26 - October 24,  2021, Kortrijk, Belgium

Paradise Kortrijk 2021 is the successor to Play Kortrijk 2018, the interactive art event that transformed the city of Kortrijk three years ago into a playground of contemporary artworks at various indoor and outdoor locations in the city, and which was a real success with more than 175,000 visitors.

The second edition maintains the recipe for success - a dynamic and free urban exhibition with interactive works of art by an ambitious list of Belgian and international artists in various indoor and outdoor locations in the city of Kortrijk - and focuses on the utopian dream of paradise. The project draws inspiration from our zeitgeist and is a reaction to our current living environment, which sometimes seems miles away from a hopeful, positive and utopian environment.

https://www.paradisekortrijk.be/en

A Beast, a God, and a Line, MAIIAM contemporary art museum, Chiang Mai, Thailand, 14 Nov - 26 March 2020

MAIIAM Contemporary Art Museum is delighted to present the traveling exhibition A beast, a god, and a line, curated by Cosmin Costinas.

Exhibition period: 14th November 2020 - 26th March 2021

Participating Artists:
Ampannee Satoh, Anida Yoeu Ali, Anon Pairot, Antonia Aguilar, Apichatpong Weerasethakul, Arnold Flores, Chandrakanth Chitara, Charles Lim, Christy Chow, Cian Dayrit, Daniel Boyd, Dilara Begum Jolly, Etan Pavavalung, Garima Gupta, Gauri Gill, Harit Srikhao, Huang Rui, Ines Doujak, INTERPRT, Jaffa Lam, Jakkai Siributr, Jakrawal Nilthamrong, Jimmy Ong, Jiun-Yang Li, Joël Andrianomearisoa, Joseph de Ramos, Joydeb Roaja, Jrai Dew Collective (curated by Art Labor), Khamsouk Keomingmuang, Lantian Xie, Lauro Penamante, Lavanya Mani, Malala Andrialavidrazana, Manish Nai, Ming Wong, Moelyono, Munem Wasif, Naiza Khan, Nguyễn Trinh Thi, Nontawat Numbenchapol, Norberto Roldan, Paphonsak La-Or, Paul Pfeiffer, Po Po, Raja Umbu, Rajesh Vangad, Rashid Choudhury, RJ Camacho, Sarah Naqvi, Sarat Mala Chakma, Sawangwongse Yawnghwe, Sheela Gowda, Sheelasha Rajbhandari, Simon Soon, Simryn Gill, Sopheap Pich, Su Yu Hsien, Sutthirat Supaparinya, Taloi Havini, Tawatchai Puntusawasdi, Than Sok, Thảo-Nguyên Phan, Trevor Yeung, Trương Công Tùng, Tuguldur Yondonjamts, Zamthingla Ruivah

The exhibition is organised by Para Site, Hong Kong. It was on view at Dhaka Art Summit, Dhaka, the Museum of Modern Art, Warsaw, as well as at The Secretariat (Pyinsa Rasa/TS1), Yangon throughout 2018, and previously at Kunsthall Trondheim, Norway in 2019

http://www.maiiam.com/exhibition/a-beast-a-god-and-a-line/

More, More, More, Tank Shanghai, China, 16 July, 2020 - 31 January, 2021

TANK SHANGHAI presents More, More, More, a major international group exhibition of contemporary art that works against theoretical traditions that fuse knowledge with sight, opening the field of artistic experience to a diversity of phenomena.  

Featuring works by Sophia Al-Maria, Art Labor, Cecilia Bengolea, Dora Budor, Cheng Xinyi, Claudia Comte, Chelsea Culprit, Jesse Darling, Allison Janae Hamilton, Hao Liang, Huang He, Irena Haiduk, Brook Hsu, Devin Kenny, Mire Lee, Ghislaine Leung, Ad Minoliti, Mountain River Jump!, Lisa Naftolin with Alex Mcleod, Laure Prouvost, Pamela Rosenkranz, Victoria Sin, Jenna Sutela, Tan Jing, Cecilia Vicuña, Wong Kit Yi, and Zhao Yao.

Exhibition: More, More, More

Venue: TANK Shanghai, 2380 Longteng Avenue, Shanghai, China

Locations: Tank 4 (July - October 2020);

    Tank 4 and Grand Hall (October 2020 - January 2021)

Dates: 16 July, 2020 - 31 January, 2021

http://tankshanghai.com/en/exhibition/info42.htm

Us Against You, 2020. 4. 17 – 2020. 8. 30, Gyeonggi Museum of Modern Art, Korea

2020. 4. 17 – 2020. 8. 30, Gyeonggi Museum of Modern Art, Korea

Curated by: Sooyoung Lee

Supported by: SAMHWA PAINTS

The title Us Against You implies that ‘we’ share the world we live in with ‘many other entities different from us.’ It also means that we are already related with you in so many ways.

Who are ‘we’ as human? What makes anyone 'human'? It is not too difficult to consider a cyborg, who has a machine inside her body such as an artificial heart, to be human. It is, on the other hand, never easy to define the boundary between human and non-human. No matter how hard we try to stop new virus. it breaks the barrier and enters us. Our personal information, which is identifiable with ourselves, get leaked no matter how cautiously we guard them. There is no way to prove that we are today the same being as what we were yesterday. The way we construct a human subjectivity keeps changing. We are material-informational individuals constantly re-constructed.

Then who are ‘you?’ You come from different places, sing in different languages. You have differently shaped bodies. And often, you exist outside the legal boundary. In spite of these trivial 'differences', you begin to be visible only when one steps outside Korea, maleness, political citizenship, straightness and finally human-centeredness. ‘You’ are strangers, women, plants and animals, machines and the earth.

At Us Against You, the audience will meet those who they have to live together with as neighbor, and explore the kinds of coexistence and collaboration they offer. At Us Against You, the audience will see the changing world and diverse entities in it, and the ways of collaboration they bring to the world through the participating artists’s eyes and voices. The exhibition will be not only the very picture of the daily lives of us and you but also a world to produce coincidences, actions and interdependent relationships.

https://gmoma-en.ggcf.kr/archives/exhibit/us-against-you

Dhaka Art Summit 2020, Seismic Movements, Dhaka,Bangladesh

Convening a critical mass of artists, thinkers and participants, ‘Dhaka Art Summit 2020: Seismic Movements’ (DAS 2020) will provoke us to reconsider (art) histories, movement, borders and fault lines. From 7–15 February 2020, Dhaka, Bangladesh will be the epicentre of a radical upheaval of how we think about art, activated by intellectual and curatorial contributions, spanning four floors of the Shilpakala Academy in the city’s vibrant University belt. Built through alliances across Africa, Australia, South and Southeast Asia (and also extending into Europe and the US) this platform will be free to the public and include contributions by 500 artists, scholars, curators and thinkers, in the form of panel discussions, performances and symposia as well as opportunities for participation from the 300,000+ visitors focused on one broad theme: what is a movement and how do we ignite one beyond the confines of an art exhibition?

https://www.dhakaartsummit.org/

A Beast, a God and a Line, Kunsthall Trondheim, Norway

Nabil Ahmed,  Anida Yoeu Ali,  Malala Andrialavidrazana,  Joël Andrianomearisoa,  Daniel Boyd,  Sarat Mala Chakma,  Chandrakant Chitara,  Rashid Choudhury,  Christy Chow,  Cian Dayrit,  Ines Doujak,  Gauri Gill,  Simryn Gill,  Sheela Gowda,  Garima Gupta,  Taloi Havini,  Huang Rui,  Dilara Begum Jolly,  Jrai Dew Collective (curated by Art Labor),  Jaffa Lam,  Jiun-Yang Li,  Charles Lim Yi Yong,   Lavanya Mani,  Moelyono,  Manish Nai,  Sarah Naqvi,  Nguyen Trinh Thi,  Jakrawal Nilthamrong,  Nontawat Numbenchapol,  Jimmy Ong,  Anand Patwardhan,  Etan Pavavalung,  Paul Pfeiffer,  Thao Nguyen Phan,  Sheelasha Rajbhandari,  Joydeb Roaja,  Norberto Roldan,  Zamthingla Ruivah,  Ampannee Satoh,  Chai Siris,  Simon Soon (with RJ Camacho and Celestine Fadul),  Than Sok,  Su Yu Hsien,  Truong Công Tùng,  Raja Umbu,  Rajesh Vangad,  Munem Wasif,  Apichatpong Weerasethakul,  Ming Wong,  Lantian Xie,  Sawangwongse Yawnghwe,  Trevor Yeung,  Tuguldur Yondonjamts

Para Site and Kunsthall Trondheim are delighted to present A beast, a god, and a line in Trondheim, Norway. Curated by Cosmin Costinas, this expansive travelling exhibition is woven through the connections and circulations of ideas and forms across a geography commonly called Asia-Pacific. Arbitrary as any mapping, not least in contemporary art exhibitions, it could also be known by several other definitions, which the exhibition explores and untangles. The stories in A beast, a god, and a line journey on routes going back to several historical eras, starting from the early Austronesian world that has woven a maritime universe surpassed in scale only by European colonialism and is taken as the speculative and approximate geographical perimeter of this exhibition. Overlapping and sometimes conflicting or barely discernible beneath the strident layers of contemporaneity and the modern waves of destruction, these fluid worlds are still the pillars of a region that is going through a process of replacing its colonial cartographic coordinates, a process this exhibition proudly serves.

The exhibition is organised by Para Site, Dhaka Art Summit, and Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw. It was on view, throughout 2018, at all these institutions as well as at Pyinsa Rasa and TS1 at the Secretariat & Myanm/art Gallery in Yangon. The exhibition will be travelling to MAIIAM Contemporary Art Museum, Chiang Mai, in April 2020.

The iteration in Trondheim is organised by Kunsthall Trondheim and Para Site, Hong Kong.

JUA, artist talk and Jrai Dew book launch, 4-6pm, 17-08-2019, the Factory Contemporary Art Centre

(English below) Trong buổi trò chuyện này, nhóm nghệ sĩ Art Labor sẽ chia sẻ về dự án mới của nhóm, ‘JUA’, một dự án nhằm khảo sát tình hình cà-phê Robusta ở Việt Nam cũng như việc sản xuất gạo ở Camargue (miền Nam nước Pháp). Với dự án này, Art Labor thôi thúc với hai câu hỏi: Những nguồn tài nguyên này phản ánh các tập tính thực dân về sinh tồn hay về nhu cầu vui thú như thế nào? Việc đưa những loài thực vật lạ vào môi trường bản địa, cũng như tình hình khai thác nông nghiệp toàn cầu ngày nay mang lại những hệ quả gì? Đây là dự án thứ ba trong thực hành của nhóm Art Labor, và là dự án thứ hai làm việc với khu vực Tây Nguyên Việt Nam – một vùng đất mà rất nhiều người dân trồng và canh tác cà-phê.

Những ngả đường lịch sử (được Art Labor nghiên cứu tại Pháp và Việt Nam) đã kết trái dưới dạng một ‘triển lãm sơ bộ’ kéo dài một ngày (với nhiều hình thức đa dạng như tranh, điêu khắc, video và các không gian tương tác cho cộng đồng tham gia) tại Thảo Cầm Viên vào ngày 28 tháng 7. Đây là một trong những vườn bách thú lâu đời nhất trên thế giới, cũng từng là ngôi nhà kính trồng các loại cây giống tiềm năng như cao su, cà phê, mía và xoài.

Hãy cùng chúng tôi tìm hiểu thêm về những lịch sử giao nhau này và sự phổ biến của ‘chủ nghĩa thuộc địa xanh’ – một vấn đề cũng sẽ được đặt ra trong triển lãm sắp tới tại The Factory, ‘Những hư cấu không thể thiếu’.

☀️Phí tham gia:
➖Vé người lớn: 100,000VND (online); 130,000VND (tại cửa)
➖Vé học sinh/sinh viên: 40,000VND

Thông tin thêm về buổi trò chuyện: http://bit.ly/trochuyencungartlabor

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Artist collective, ‘Art Labor’, share their ‘JUA’ project – examining the occurrence of Robusta coffee in Vietnam, and rice production in French Camargue – fascinated with not only how these resources reflect colonial habits of pleasure and survival, but also the impact of foreign introduced plants to indigenous habitats and the current global farming exploitation. This is the third journey of Art Labor’s practices, and the second working in Vietnam’s Central Highlands – a region rich with coffee growers.

This history – which has seen Art Labor undertake research in France and Vietnam – came together as a 1-day ‘preliminary exhibition’ at Thảo Cầm Viên (Saigon Botanical Garden and Zoo) on the 28 July, showcasing painting, sculpture, video and interactive zones for community participation. This zoo, one of the oldest in the world, was also the greenhouse to cultivate seedlings for potential crops such as rubber, coffee, sugarcane and mango.

Join us to learn more about these intertwined histories and the prevalence of ‘green colonialism’ – an issue also of investigation in The Factory’s upcoming exhibition ‘Necessary Fictions’.

☀️Participating fee:
➖Adutl: 100,000VND (online); 130,000VND (at door)
➖Student (with appropriate ID): 40,000VND

More information about the talk and the speakers here: http://bit.ly/atalkwithartlabor

JUA, 9h - 17h, 28-07-2019, Thảo Cầm Viên Sài Gòn - Sài Gòn Zoo and Botanical Garden

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JUA - TRIỂN LÃM CỦA ART LABOR
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9h - 17h, Chủ Nhật 28/7/2019
Thảo Cầm Viên
Sân của Bảo tàng Động Thực Vật (căn nhà màu vàng có dây leo gần vườn lan)

JUA là hành trình thứ ba của nhóm Lao Động Nghệ Thuật kể từ năm 2019. Hành trình này của chúng tôi bắt nguồn từ niềm đam mê với canh tác nông nghiệp Việt Nam ở thế kỷ trước, trong đó diễn ra sự dịch chuyển của thực vật và con người giữa trong và ngoài nước. Ở đây, chúng tôi quan tâm đến cà phê Robusta và gạo - hai nông sản giúp đánh dấu Việt Nam là nước xuất khẩu nông nghiệp toàn cầu.
Mối quan tâm bắt đầu khi chúng tôi tìm hiểu vòng xoáy nợ nần mà nhiều nông dân Việt Nam mắc phải, cá nhân hơn nữa chính là cha mẹ chúng tôi - người trồng cà phê trên đất rừng già năm xưa của Tây Nguyên. Từ việc rũ bỏ rừng rậm, hệ thống hóa thực vật trong canh tác đến các đợt di dân do chiến tranh hoặc chính sách kinh tế, những dịch chuyển đã xảy ra này không chỉ xảy ra với thực vật, mà cả người lao động. Do vậy, đề tài khắc họa dần mở rộng ra nhiều hướng khác nhau.

JUA là một từ tuyệt đẹp trong ngôn ngữ Jrai - cộng đồng dân tộc bản địa sống cùng người Việt ở Tây Nguyên. Từ này diễn tả trạng thái động - dịch chuyển giữa nước và không khí. Nó có thể là dòng nước, mây đổ mưa, làn gió, hơi thở hay phong ba. Nó đại diện cho khí hậu và thiên nhiên. Chiếu cận vào, nó có thể mô tả cách lá thở. Một cách phóng dụ, nó có thể ẩn ý cho sự bốc hơi của vạn vật: đất, rừng, con người, vốn, lao động, v.v.

**Triển lãm diễn ra chỉ trong 1 ngày - như một 'happening' (trình diễn tức thì) với một chuỗi các hoạt động. Khách tham quan sẽ có cơ hội dùng cà phê Robusta Gia Lai mới rang từ gia đình của thành viên nhóm - Trương Công Tùng; cùng bỏng gạo ống - món ăn vặt tuôn ra từ đầu máy cày - cỗ máy động cơ đa năng khớp với vô số công cụ nông nghiệp khác. Tranh cà phê, điêu khắc bỏng gạo, diều, tranh truyện màu nước và video là một số các tác phẩm sẽ trưng bày trong không gian. Cấu trúc kiến trúc của triển lãm là các tấm tôn - vật liệu xây dựng giá rẻ phổ biến ở vùng nông thôn Tây Nguyên - được phủ bột cà phê. Một quán cà phê võng nho nhỏ dựng lên làm trạm nghỉ ngơi cho du khách. Một loạt các hội thảo về kiến thức cà phê; làm diều; và vẽ tranh cà phê sẽ được tổ chức trong suốt buổi triển lãm.
Bạn bè và hàng xóm của chúng tôi từ Gia Lai, những người đã và đang hỗ trợ - cộng tác với nhóm Lao động Nghệ thuật, sẽ đến Sài Gòn để cùng thực hiện các hoạt động này.
JUA sẽ như một ngày lễ hội mừng vụ thu hoạch thành công!

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JUA - AN EXHIBITION OF ART LABOR
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9 AM - 5 PM, Sunday 28 July 2019
Saigon Botanical Garden & Zoo
Courtyard of Museum of Flora & Fauna (the yellow house with the vine)

JUA is the third journey of art labor’s practice starting from 2019. It arises from our fascination with agrarian cultivation from the last century of Vietnam, during which the displacement of plants and human inward and outward Vietnam took place. Here we are interested in Robusta coffee and rice – the two products that mark Vietnam nowadays as global agricultural exporter.
The curiosity began when we tried to understand the debt cycle of Vietnamese farmers, more specifically our parents who are coffee growers on the bygone forestland in the Central Highlands. From jungle supplanting, botany systemization in farming to immigrant movements due to war or economic policies, the displacement applies not just on plants but also human labor. Thus the focus extends to various directions.

JUA is a beautiful word in Jrai language – the minority ethnic living among Viet people in Central Highlands. It indicates a dynamic state varying in between water and air, which can be a stream of water, rainy cloud, a breeze, a breath or wind. It represents climate and nature. Minutely it can describe how the leaves breath. Allegorically it can imply the vaporization of things: land, forest, human, capital, labor, etc.

** The exhibition plans to take place in only 1 day, as a happening to feature series of activities. The visitors will have opportunity to try Vietnamese coffee – freshly ground Robusta from the family of Art Labor’s member Truong Cong Tung in Gia Lai and bỏng gạo ống – the pop-rice snack made from the engine that is also used for other farming machines. Coffee paintings, pop-rice sculptures, dyed kites, watercolor comic strip and video art are among the art objects surrounding in the space. Architectural structure is created by covering coffee ground on corrugated iron sheets – the common cheap building material in rural Highlands. Hammock café is set up as resting station for visitors. Consecutive workshops of coffee understanding, kite making and coffee drawing will be held in the exhibition.
Our friends and neighbors from Gia Lai, who have been supporting and collaborating with Art Labor will travel to Saigon to join and conduct these activities.

JUA is a festive day like celebration after the successful harvest!

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The exhibition includes artworks in collaboration with our artist friends: Joan Jonas, Trương Quế Chi, Đỗ Văn Hoàng, Freddy Nadolny Poustochkine and Nhật Q. Võ.

Art Labor receive thoughtful mentorship from artists Joan Jonas, Rirkrit Tiravanija and writer / writer and translator Nguyên Ngọc.

This event cannot take place without generous support from many institutions and individuals. Art Labor express our gratitude to Horizn Discovery Award, LUMA Foundation, Goethe Institut HCMC, ASEF Mobility First, BBright Co. and Mr. Dominique Lasserre.

COLLECTIVELY, A forum on the art of thinking, working and living together. Organized by Council and Iaspis, Konstnärsnämnden, 24–26 May 2019, Stockholm, Sweden

#CollectivelyIaspis

Collectively is a forum that gathers participants coming from the arts and beyond, sensitive to developing news ways of thinking, working, and living together. It investigates forms of collective practice and inquires into how they can foster better social understandings, encourage new forms of solidarity and improve living conditions for everyone. The forum will unfold over three days with over 60 international participants.

Collectively is a concept developed by Council and curated by Grégory Castéra together with advisors Raimundas Malašauskas, Claire Tancons and Kathryn Weir. It is commissioned and organised by Iaspis, the international programme of the Swedish Arts Grant Committee.

The participants

0s+1s, Erik Annerborn, Art Lab Gnesta, Art Labor , Bigert & Bergström, Brunåkra, Eglė Budvytytė, Candyland, The Center for the Less Good Idea, Council, CUSS Group, Anne Davidian, Fylkingen, Nathalie Gabrielsson, keyon gaskin, Cecilia Gelin, Benji Gerdes, Gideonsson/Londré, Goldin+Senneby, Gruppen, Gudskul, Martin Guinard-Terrin, Soledad Gutiérrez, Gylleboverket, Sandi Hilal, Mats Hjelm, Laura Huertas Millán, Hyphen, INLAND, IntraGallactic, Virginija Januškevičiūtė, Hanni Kamaly, Angie Keefer, Alexandra Khazina, k.ö.k, La Nocturna, Inga Lāce, Local A., Lundahl&Seitl, Raimundas Malašauskas, Mapping the Unjust City, Alice Máselniková, Ana Mendes, Elena Narbutaitė, Robertas Narkus, Public Movement, Vivian Rehberg, Rejmyre Art Lab, Elham Rokni, Viktorija Rybakova, S!GNAL, Frida Sandström, Aron Schoug, Slakthusateljéerna, Smychka, Kathryn Weir, Werker Collective, Knutte Wester, Sofia Wiberg, WochenKlausur, Giorgiana Zacchia and Iaspis team: Annika Björkman, Roberta Burchardt, Christer Chytraéus, Filippa Edholm, Magnus Ericson, Muhib Fayazi, Dick Hedlund, Henrik Högberg, Lena Malm, Karolina Pahlén, Johan Pousette, Adrian Reimers, Moses Resele
 

 https://www.konstnarsnamnden.se/default.aspx?id=22548

52 artists 52 actions, 18 May - 4 August 2019, Artspace, Sydney, Australia

#52ARTISTS52ACTIONS
@52RTISTS52ACTIONS

Symposium
18 – 20 July

52 ARTISTS 52 ACTIONS surveys Artspace’s ambitious, year-long online project running from January 2018 – January 2019 highlighting artistic practice across Asia. The project commissioned 52 artists and collectives to stage actions in unique locations throughout the region and share them with global audiences online. The exhibition brings this rich collection into the Artspace galleries to address the social, cultural and political implications of working in the region and consider how art as action has the power to invoke change. Key to the project is an engagement with Asia and its diaspora as an endlessly evolving region with sub-cultures and subjectivities that defy traditional or rigid narratives.

With 52 artists and collectives from 31 countries. ​

Artists 

Richard Bell (Australia), Hera Büyüktaşçıyan (Turkey), YOUNG-HAE CHANG HEAVY INDUSTRIES (The Republic Of Korea), Hasan Hujairi (Bahrain), Kyungah Ham (South Korea), Tromarama (Indonesia), Pio Abad (Philippines), Hit Man Gurung (Nepal), Deborah Kelly (Australia), Heman Chong (Singapore), Chim↑Pom (Japan), Yuk King Tan (Hong Kong), Shivanjani Lal (Fiji), Reetu Sattar (Bangladesh), Nasim Nasr (Iran/Australia), Sawangwongse Yawnghwe (Burma/Myanmar), Rasel Chowdhury (Bangladesh), Bhenji Ra (Australia/Philippines), Rushdi Anwar (Kurdistan), Enkhjargal Ganbat (Mongolia), The Mulka Project (YIRRKALA, NORTH-EAST ARNHEM LAND, AUSTRALIA), Charles Lim (Singapore), Echo Morgan (China), Amin Taasha (Afghanistan), Shiraz Bayjoo (Mauritius), Anida Yoeu Ali (Cambodia), Tita Salina & Irwin Ahmett (Indonesia), Fazal Rizvi (Pakistan), Ritu Sarin & Tenzing Sonam (India/Tibet), Ashmina Ranjit (Nepal), FAFSWAG (Aotearoa New Zealand), Pvi Collective (Australia), Refugee Art Project (Australia), Abdul Halik Azeez (Sri Lanka), Jason Wee (Singapore), Vernon Ah Kee (Australia), Art Labor Collective (Vietnam), Arahmaiani (Indonesia), Zhao Zhao (China), Rosanna Raymond (Aotearoa New Zealand), Mike Parr (Australia), Nicolas Molé (New Caledonia), Rabbya Naseer (Pakistan), Venuri Perera (Sri Lanka), Taloi Havini (Papau New Guinea), Wang Rou (Malaysia), Tintin Wulia (Indonesia), Kuang-Yu Tsui (Taiwan), Samson Young (Hong Kong), Tuấn Andrew Nguyễn, (Vietnam), Chia-En Jao (Taiwan), James Tylor (Australia/Kuarna Yarta)

https://www.artspace.org.au/program/52-artists-52-actions/

Artist residency at Bellas Artes Projects, Bataan, the Philippines, Nov 2018

http://www.bellasartesprojects.org/art-labor

Carnegie International, 57th Edition,Carnegie Museum of Art, Oct 13, 2018–March 25, 2019

Image: Art Labor and Joan Jonas for Carnegie International 57th edition

The 57th edition of the Carnegie International offers visitors an abundance of encounters with the work of artists and collectives from around the world. The exhibition explores what “international” means at a moment when questions of nations, nationalism, boundaries, and border crossings are becoming ever more urgent. At the same time, the exhibition is very much of its specific place and time: Pittsburgh, 2018; local visitors will recognize the art of familiar, Pittsburgh-based artists. Bridging shifting terrains and forging surprising linkages, the exhibition invites visitors to make their own connections in the presence of art and other people.



https://2018.carnegieinternational.org/

Bangkok Art Biennale - Beyond Bliss, Oct 10 2018- Feb 3 2019

Bringing together 75 artists from 33 countries with over 200 works, Bangkok Art Biennale (BAB) launches contemporary art festival in 20 locations from 19 October 2018 – 3 February 2019.

Under the theme of “Beyond Bliss”, Bangkok Art Biennale (BAB) 2018 will be the first biennale in Bangkok, a brand new destination for international art scene. 20 major venues around the metropolitan areas in Bangkok ranging from art spaces to historical and cultural landmarks will be colored with contemporary art, displaying artists’ creative works with their individual interpretation on human happiness.

Location of Art Labor's work: O.P Place

http://www.bkkartbiennale.com/venues-detail/?venues=6

http://www.bkkartbiennale.com/

A Beast, a God and a Line. Art, religion, and woven knowledge in today's asia, Museum of Contemporary Art, Warsaw, July 20 - Oct 07 2018 

"A Beast, a God, and a Line" is an invitation to take a look at contemporary history from the perspective of Asia and the Pacific in this moment of global uncertainty and a crumbling of the western order that dominated for centuries. The show’s artists pose courageous questions and thoughtfully explore the new, fragmented reality of our world today.

Participating artists:

Nabil Ahmed, Anida Yoeu Ali, Malala Andrialavidrazana, Joël Andrianomearisoa, Daniel Boyd, Sarat Mala Chakma, Chandrakanth Chitara, Rashid Choudhury, Christy Chow, Cian Dayrit, Ines Doujak, Gauri Gill and Rajesh Vangad, Simryn Gill, Sheela Gowda, Garima Gupta, Taloi Havini, Huang Rui, Dilara Begum Jolly, Jrai Dew Collective (curated by Art Labor), Jaffa Lam, Jiun-Yang Li, Charles Lim Yi Yong, Idas Losin, Lavanya Mani, Moelyono, Mrinalini Mukherjee, Manish Nai, Sarah Naqvi, Nguyen Trinh Thi, Jakrawal Nilthamrong, Nontawat Numbenchapol, Jimmy Ong, Anand Patwardhan, Etan Pavavalung, Paul Pfeiffer, Thao-Nguyen Phan, Sheelasha Rajbhandari, Joydeb Roaja, Norberto Roldan, Zamthingla Ruivah, Ampannee Satoh, Chai Siris, Praneet Soi, Simon Soon (with RJ Camacho and Celestine Fadul), Than Sok, Su Yu Hsien, Truong Công Tùng, Raja Umbu, Chiara Vigo, Munem Wasif, Apichatpong Weerasethakul, Ming Wong, Lantian Xie, Sawangwongse Yawnghwe, Trevor Yeung, Tuguldur Yondonjamts

"A Beast, a God, and a Line" exhibition has been organised by Para Site, Dhaka Art Summit and the Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw. The show debuted in Bangladesh during the Dhaka Art Summit in February 2018 and was shown at Para Site Hong Kong March – May and at TS1 Yangon in June.

https://artmuseum.pl/en/wystawy/bestia-bog-i-linia/1

Artists announced for Carnegie International, 57th edition,11 April 2018

ARTISTS ANNOUNCED FOR CARNEGIE INTERNATIONAL, 57TH EDITION, 2018

11 APR 2018

Curator Ingrid Schaffner announced today the artists in Carnegie International, 57th Edition, 2018, which runs October 13, 2018–March 25, 2019 at Carnegie Museum of Art. Established in 1896, the Carnegie International exhibitions have built a rich history of introducing audiences to contemporary art from around the world. The 2018 Carnegie International will feature:

• Yuji Agematsu

• El Anatsui

• Art Labor with Joan Jonas

• Huma Bhabha

• Mel Bochner

• Mimi Cherono Ng’ok

• Lenka Clayton and Jon Rubin

• Sarah Crowner

• Alex Da Corte

• Tacita Dean

• Jeremy Deller

• Kevin Jerome Everson

• Han Kang and IM Heung–soon

• Leslie Hewitt

• Saba Innab

• Karen Kilimnik

• Zoe Leonard

• Kerry James Marshall

• Park McArthur

• Josiah McElheny with John Corbett and Jim Dempsey

• Ulrike Müller

• Thaddeus Mosley

• The Otolith Group

• Postcommodity

• Jessi Reaves

• Abel Rodriguez

• Rachel Rose

• Beverly Semmes

• Dayanita Singh

• Lucy Skaer

• Tavares Strachan

• Lynette Yiadom–Boakye

The Carnegie International will also include Dig Where You Stand, by independent exhibition maker Koyo Kouoh.

With 32 artists and artist collectives, the exhibition invites visitors to explore what it means to be “international” at this moment in time, and to experience museum joy. The pleasure of being with art and other people inspired the composition of this International—a series of encounters with contemporary art inside the world of Carnegie Museum of Art. Among the new and ambitious projects are an unprecedented collaboration between novelist Han Kang and filmmaker IM Heung–soon; an exhibition–within–the–exhibition by Koyo Kouoh that draws from the museum’s collection; and an interpretation of rejected works from the history of the Carnegie International by Lenka Clayton and Jon Rubin. Other components of the International include a mapping of Pittsburgh through photography in the museum’s Teenie Harris Archive, a historic record of black life in urban America, and the Cinémathèque series of film screenings. The 57th edition also builds on a long legacy of research and collecting by Carnegie Museum of Art.

https://2018.carnegieinternational.org/news/artists-announced/

A Beast, a God, and a Line, Para Site, Hongkong, Mar 17 - May 20 2018

MAR 17 – MAY 20, 2018

Opening Reception
March 16, 2018
7:00 – 9:00pm

Para Site
22/F, 6/F Wing Wah Industrial Building

Nabil Ahmed, Anida Yoeu Ali, Malala Andrialavidrazana, Joël Andrianomearisoa, Au Hoi Lam, Pablo Bartholomew, Daniel Boyd, Sarat Mala Chakma, Rashid Chowdhury, Christy Chow, Cian Dayrit, Ines Doujak, Gauri Gill, Simryn Gill, Sheela Gowda, Garima Gupta, Taloi Havini, Su Yu Hsien, Dilara Begum Jolly, Jrai Dew Collective (curated by Art Labor), Jaffa Lam, Jiun-Yang Li, Charles Lim Yi Yong, Idas Losin, Lavanya Mani, Moelyono, Mrinalini Mukherjee, Manish Nai, Sarah Naqvi, Nguyen, Trinh Thi, Jakrawal Nilthamrong, Nontawat Numbenchapol, Jimmy Ong, Etan Pavavalung, Paul Pfeiffer, Thao-Nguyen Phan, Sheelasha Rajbhandari, Joydeb Roaja, Norberto Roldan, Zamthingla Ruivah, Ampannee Satoh, Chai Siris, Praneet Soi, Simon Soon (with RJ Camacho and Celestine Fadul), Truong Công Tùng, Raja Umbu, Chiara Vigo, Munem Wasif, Apichatpong Weerasethakul, Ming Wong, Lantian Xie, Sawangwongse Yawnghwe, Trevor Yeung, Tuguldur Yondonjamts

Para Site is delighted to present A beast, a god, and a line. This expansive travelling exhibition is co-produced with the Samdani Art Foundation and the Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw, and is woven through the connections and circulations of ideas across a region. This geography - arbitrary as any mapping, not least as it appears in contemporary art exhibitions - is commonly called the Asia-Pacific, but it could also be epitomised by several other definitions, which the exhibition explores and untangles. Overlapping and sometimes conflicting or barely discernible beneath the strident layers of contemporaneity, and the modern waves of destruction, these worlds are still the pillars of a region that is going through a process of replacing its colonial cartographic coordinates, a process this exhibition proudly serves. It does so by putting forward political, art historical, and aesthetic interrogations, all of them reflected in the subject matters of the exhibition, as well as in the aesthetic languages it gathers, and in the art historical narratives around the featured artists, who all belong to vastly different generations and backgrounds. 

http://www.para-site.org.hk/en/exhibitions/a-beast-a-god-and-a-line

A Beast, a God, and a Line, Dhaka Art Summit, Dhaka, Bangladesh Feb 2-10 2018 

Curated by Cosmin Costinas 

A beast, a god and a line is woven by connections and circulations of ideas across a geography with Bengal at its core. Commonly called Asia-Pacific, it could also be defined by several other definitions, which the exhibition will explore and untangle. Overlapping and sometimes conflicting or barely discernible beneath the strident layers of contemporaneity and the modern waves of destruction, these worlds are still the pillars of a region that is going through a process of replacing its colonial cartographic coordinates, a process this exhibition proudly serves.

Further on, the project touches some issues marking the current historical moment in this macro-region: the development and spread of politicised religion (jihadist Islam across several countries, fascist Buddhism in Myanmar, Sri Lanka, and Thailand, and Hindu ethno-fascism in India, alongside revivalist Christianity among many indigenous communities and the Philippines), the rise of political populism and loss of faith in liberal-democracy, the negotiation of real or imagined traditional cultures in modern societies, and, circumscribing the previous issues, the various attempts to create parallel narratives to Western modernity. 

These issues circulate across South Asia and South East Asia on routes going back to several historical eras: the early Austronesian world that has woven a maritime universe surpassed in scale only by European colonialism, from Hawaii, New Zealand, to Madagascar with Taiwan, Indonesia, Malaysia and Philippines at its core; the great transfer of cultural and religious ideas across South Asia and South East Asia; the trade routes of the Indian Ocean before the European imperial monopoly; and the intellectual and political visions during the anti-colonial struggle and post-colonial nation building, forming the immediate pre-history of the contemporary issues mentioned above.

At the core of the exhibition are works by contemporary artists as well as their visions. However, many of the historical traces and layers are drawn by textiles, which occupy a crucial position in this exhibition, framing its architecture and narrative. 

The exhibition will contain several autonomous sections, thematic godowns supporting the trade of ideas and forms: one concentrating more in-depth on several narratives related to textiles, one curated by Shabbir Hussain Mustafa, and one conceived together with Simon Soon and a group of Filipino artisans.
 

ARTISTS
Ampannee Satoh
Anida Yoeu Ali
Apichatpong Weerasethakul
Celestine Fadul
RJ Camacho
Simon Soon
Chai Siris
Charles Lim Yi Yong
Cian Dayrit
Dilara Begum Jolly
Daniel Boyd
Garima Gupta
Ines Doujak
Nabil Ahmed
Jakrawal Nilthamrong
Jrai Dew Collective
(curated by art labor)
Jiun-Yang Li
Joël Andrianomearisoa
Joydeb Roaja
Lantian Xie
Lavanya Mani
Malala Andrialavidrazana
Manish Nai
Ming Wong
Moelyono
Mrinalini Mukherjee
Munem Wasif
Nguyen Trinh Thi
Nontawat Numbenchapol
Norberto Roldan
Paul Pfeiffer
Praneet Soi
Raja Umbu
Rashid Choudhury
Sarat Mala Chakma
Sawangwongse Yawnghwe
Sheela Gowda
Sheelasha Rajbhandari
Simryn Gill
Su Yu Hsien
Taloi Havini
Thao-Nguyen Phan
Trevor Yeung
Truong Công Tùng
Tuguldur Yondonjamts
Zamthingla Ruivah

https://www.dhakaartsummit.org/a-beast-a-god-and-a-line

Cosmopolis #1: Collective Intelligence , Centre Pompidou, Paris, Oct 18 - Dec 18 2017 

The Centre Pompidou presents the first edition of Cosmopolis, a new platform that highlights research-based artistic practices and a renewed engagement with theories of cosmopolitanism.

Through micro-residencies, research, exhibitions, talks, performances, and screenings, Cosmopolis highlights a spectrum of creative approaches that are both rooted in a particular context and engage in international conversations, reflecting on cultural translation and the situatedness of knowledge.
‘Cosmopolis #1: Collective Intelligence’ looks at current forms of artistic collaboration. The 1990s saw major turn towards collaborative and social practices and a proliferation of artists’ collectives. In order to better understand this drive to create collectively, Cosmopolis showcases practices centered on knowledge sharing and on the development of social fabric through encounters, discussions, meals,trips, publications and the creation of schools, festivals or other cultural structures. These artistic practices and strategies constantly question the current role of art in society and cultural institutions.
Cosmopolis #1 gathers artists, curators, researchers, publishers, architects and other cultural producers who choose to operate collaboratively and affirm the potential of creative practices to convey knowledge and create new ways of being in the world. Their cosmopolitanism draws attention to the representation of difference and mobility – migration, exile, diaspora – but is not associated with a lack of rootedness. It reflects the complexity of the movements and communications of our time, but cultivates a deep sense of the local.

COLLECTIVES INVITED:
Arquitectura Expandida (Colombia)
Art Labor (Vietnam)
Chimurenga (South Africa)
Chto Delat (Russia)
Council (France)
Foundland Collective (The Netherlands / Egypt)
Iconoclasistas (Argentina)
Invisible Borders (Nigeria)
Laagencia (Colombia)
Mixrice (South Korea)
Polit-Sheer-Form Office (China)
PorEstosDías (Colombia)
ruangrupa (Indonesia)
The Tentative Collective (Pakistan)

Asian Art Biennale 2017 : Negotiating the Future, Sep 30 2017 - Feb 25 2018

Negotiating the Future
2017 Asian Art Biennial
September 30, 2017–February 25, 2018

National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts 
No. 2, Section 1, Wuquan West Road
Taichung City 403
Taiwan
Hours: Tuesday–Friday 9am–5pm,
Saturday–Sunday 9am–6pm

T +886 4 2372 3552

english.ntmofa.gov.tw 
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Organizer: National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts
Curator: Kenji Kubota (Japan), Ade Darmawan (Indonesia) and Wassan Al-Khudhairi (Iraq), Hsiao-Yu Lin (Taiwan)

The 6th Asian Art Biennial will be grandly on view at the National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts on September 30, 2017. For the first time in more than a decade, the biennial this year is curated by a joint team of an in-house curator and three foreign curators, a mechanism fairly distinct from its previous curatorial practice. Treating “Negotiating the Future” as the theme, the curatorial team plans to invite around 30 artists/collectives to accomplish this great achievement with concerted efforts.

The theme Negotiating the Future features the momentum and limitless potential of contemporary art, as well as the possibilities for art to negotiate and strike a balance among various conflicts of power and relations. By virtue of the creations of these participating artists, this biennial also seeks to address the recent events and latent tension in Asia, thereby reflecting people’s desperate yearning for changing the society and fashioning the future through a concatenation of negotiations.

The three guest curators of this biennial include Kenji Kubota (Japan), Ade Darmawan (Indonesia) and Wassan Al-Khudhairi (Iraq), and Hsiao-Yu Lin is the in-house curator who works in collaboration with them. Speaking of the theme of this biennial, Kubota believes that our future is incubated by myriads of negotiations, and highly creative, unconventional things would be produced if all the negotiations are charged with imagination. For Kubota, the artworks that inspire the viewers’ imagination are closely related to the construction of a brave new world.

On the other hand, Darmawan argues that seeing art as a social practice is essential for us to view artistic practice as a way to speculate about the future. Future might be a luxury idea in certain contexts, but art can always negotiate and strategize for it from the present. As far as Al-Khudhairi is concerned, the 2017 Asian Art Biennial aims to explore the tool of negotiation as a means to navigate the possibilities for the future, and how art, the public and society interact as a relational trinity on the platform provided by this biennial. 

The exhibits at the 6th Asian Art Biennial serve as the epitome of contemporary artistic diversity. They comprise a riotous profusion of forms ranging from painting, installation and image to performance art and workshop. The biennial program also includes many exciting events. Please visit the museum website for detailed information about this elaborately organized biennial.

http://www.asianartbiennial.org/2017/artList-c.html

Kệ: History of Now, Newton, MA, USA, Sept 8 - Oct 1 2017

https://www.facebook.com/events/483186208720553/

Jrai Dew exhibition No.03, Amo village, Gia Lai Province, Vietnam, 26 - 27 August 2017 

Salt of the Jungle, KF Gallery, Seoul, Korea, 17 August - 18 October 2017 

http://en.kf.or.kr/?menuno=3827&type=view&evnt_no=2529&pageIndex=1&searchevnt=

Public Spirits, Center for Contemporary Art, Warsaw, Poland, 22 Sep 2016 - 8 Jan 2017

Public Spirits

22 September 2016 – 8 January 2017

http://www.csw.art.pl/index.php?action=aktualnosci&s2=1&id=1474&lang=eng

ARTISTS:
Chen Szu Han (Taiwan), Teng Chao-Ming (Taiwan), Liu Ho Jang (Taiwan), Hsu Che Ju (Taiwan),Chia-Wei Hsu (Taiwan), Kwan Sheung Chi (Hong Kong), Chen-Yu Mao (China), Zhou Tao (China), Art Labor (Vietnam), Dinh Q. Lê (Vietnam), UuDam Tran Nguyen (Vietnam), Charles Lim (Singapore), Ho Rui An (Singapore), Agung Kurniawan (Indonesia), lifepatch (Indonesia), Vuth Lyno (Cambodia), Vandy Rattana (Cambodia), Sutthirat Supaparinya (Thailand), Orawan Arunrak (Thailand), Maung Day (Myanmar/Burma), Jen Liu (USA)

Curator: Meiya Cheng
Curator's assistants: Karolina Marcinkowska, Po Shun Chuang
Coordination: Aleksandra Knychalska, Joanna Manecka

The exhibition Public Spirits is an insight into the artistic response to the experience of globalization in regions which are now the scenes of diverse clashes, sometimes due to conflicting traditions, conflicting geopolitical interests, as well as the uncertain democratization of authoritarian regimes. These are stories about the activities of various communities, which may complement or act as a counterproposal to the history of communities and nations.

Artists from Southeast Asia, mainland China, and Taiwan utilize the force of poetic visions or political engagement, working with memory as well by means of group activities to invoke lost public spirits (e.g. owing to modernization processes) or those that have not yet arrived. They give voice to groups that are overlooked in political or historical narratives. They are often communities based on true bonds, shared experiences or histories. Even if they are ephemeral – such as a group of scooters forming a joint choreography on a busy street or a community which originated from the inspiration of the metaphor of the dew - they are an alternative to the dominant economic and geopolitical powers.

Political, economic as well as social contexts in thisthese local groups region of Asia act as a point of departure for deliberation on the function of contemporary art in a globalized world. This is yet another – after the exhibitions KURZ / DUST / غبار and El Hadji Sy. At first I thought I was dancing - presentation of non-Western perspectives on global art in the program of the Centre for Contemporary Art Ujazdowski Castle.

The exhibition Public Spirits is the outcome of a research project by Taiwanese curator Meiya Cheng concerning artistic activities for the society and the communities of the countries of Southeast Asia, mainland China, as well as Taiwan.

South by Southeast. A Further Surface at Times Museum, Guangzhou, China, 22 March-8 May, 2016 

Guangdong Times Museum

Times Rose Garden III, Huangbianbei Road, Baiyun Avenue, Guangzhou, China

Hours: Tuesday – Sunday, 10am-6pm (closed on Monday except for holidays)

Guided Tour: 3:00-3:30pm, 22 March – 8 May, 2016, every Saturday & Sunday

+ 8620 26272363

www.timesmuseum.org

Participating artists: Art Labor (Vietnam), Pio Abad (The Philippines), Jon Cuyson (The Philippines), Maung Day (Myanmar), frombandungtoberlin.net (trans-national), Nilbar Güreş (Turkey), Ahdiyat Nur Hartata (Indonesia), Maja Hodošček (Slovenia), Ana Hušman (Croatia), Eisa Jocson (The Philippines), Šejla Kamerić (Bosnia and Herzegovina), Li Jinghu (China), Dalibor Martinis (Croatia), Sebastian Moldovan (Romania), Jakrawal Nilthamrong (Thailand), Aemilia Papaphilippou (Greece), Raluca Popa (Romania), Lia Perjovschi (Romania), Marko Tadić (Croatia), Saša Tkačenko (Serbia), Pradeep Thalawatta (Sri Lanka), The Bureau of Melodramatic Research (Romania), Lyno Vuth (Cambodia), Zhou Tao (China)

 Co-curated by Patrick D. Flores (The Philippines) and Anca Verona Mihuleţ (Romania)

Art Labor residency at NTU CCA, Singapore, 1-13 Dec, 2015 

Art Labor will recreate a Hammock Café serving traditional Vietnamese coffee, akin to the many itinerant roadside-resting spots of the Central Highlands of Vietnam. The café will be a place for visitors to sit together, chat, rest, observe, think or simply pass time, alluding to the café culture central to Vietnamese daily life. The name Jarai Dew Hammock Café is an introduction into Art Labor’s long-term project. That takes inspiration from the Jarai people of Vietnam's Central Highlands and their philosophy on the cycle of life. After death, humans will go through many stages to get back to their origins of existence. The final stage is that they transform into dew (ia ngôm in Jarai language) evaporating into the environment – a state of non-being – the beginning particles of a new existence.

8 DecemberDecember, 6pm - 10pm

at NTU CCA Singapore studios, block 38 Malan Road, Singapore

http://ntu.ccasingapore.org/residencies/art-labor/

Spring Watching Pavilion,  3 October - 14 November 2015

Spring Watching Pavilion presents the first major exhibition of contemporary Vietnamese art in Ireland. 2015 marks the 40 anniversary of  the ‘Fall of Saigon’ and the end of the Vietnam war.

Spring Watching Pavilion exhibits the work of 14 artists who mostly work in lens based media and participatory/socially engaged practices. The works presented are dynamic, engaging yet poetic and  nuanced in their reflection on the richness and complexity of contemporary Vietnamese life.

The title of this exhibition is taken from a poem of the same name  by  the  19th century Vietnamese  poet Hồ Xuân Hương.

3 October to 14 November 2015
Void, Patrick Street, Derry, BT48 7EL, Northern Ireland
Opening hours: Tuesday – Staurday, 11am to 5pm

www.derryvoid.com/

Art Labor talks at Sao La, 18 April 2015 

Trong khuôn khổ các hoạt động của dự án 'Dạo Bước Nghệ Thuật', Sao La thân mời các bạn đến dự buổi nói chuyện với nhóm Lao Động Nghệ Thuật cuối tuần này.

Nhóm Lao Động Nghệ Thuật luôn mong muốn thử thách các hình thức khác nhau của một triển lãm, làm lu mờ ranh giới giữa curator và nghệ sĩ, giữa vật thể lịch sử và tác phẩm hư cấu, giữa phòng tranh và bảo tàng khoa học, giữa nhà riêng và không gian công cộng, giữa nghệ thuật và đời sống. 

Trong buổi nói chuyện tại Dạo Bước Nghệ Thuật lần này, nhóm sẽ ra mắt cuốn sách nghệ thuật mới nhất của họ, Art Labor no.1: Niềm Tin Không Điều Kiện. Đây là một thử nghiệm - xem cuốn sách như một khả thể triển lãm, trong đó, người cộng tác được mời đóng góp một tác phẩm, một bài viết hoặc bất cứ điều gì mà họ muốn nói về đề tài ‘niềm tin’. Cuốn sách trở thành một tiểu triển lãm, gồm các tác phẩm tranh vẽ, tiểu sắp đặt (mini-installation), bài viết, trưng bày… Buổi nói chuyện sẽ có sự góp mặt của hầu hết các thành viên khách mời trong cuốn sách như Lauren Reid - curator và cây viết đến từ Berlin và Trương Quế Chi - nhà nghiên cứu, nghệ sĩ thị giác và nhà làm phim hiện sống ở Paris. 
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Lao Động Nghệ Thuật = nghệ thuật + thí nghiệm = nghệ thuật + lực lượng lao động

Lao Động Nghệ Thuật, gồm 3 thành viên chính: nghệ sĩ thị giác Trương Công Tùng, Phan Thảo Nguyên và curator/ cây viết Arlette Quỳnh-Anh Trần, làm việc giữa nghệ thuật thị giác, khoa học xã hội và đời sống, nhằm tìm hiểu kiến thức mới thông qua hoạt động nghệ thuật và văn hoá.

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As an activity of 'March: Art Walk', we would like to invite you to an artist talk by Art Labor.

Art Labor collective challenge different forms of the exhibition, blur the line between curator and artist, between historic object and fictional artwork, between art gallery and scientific museum, between private home and public space, between art and life. 

In this talk at Art Walk, the collective will present their latest artist book: Art Labor no.1: Unconditional Belief. This is an experiment considering the book form as a possibility of exhibition, in which each invited collaborator contributes an artwork, an essay or anything responding the theme ‘belief’. The book becomes a mini-show including drawings, mini-installations, text, display,… Most of the collaborators will join the talk, such as Lauren Reid - curator/writer based in Berlin and Trương Quế Chi - researcher/ visual artist / film maker based in Paris. 
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Art Labor = art + laboratory = art + workforce

Art Labor, with 3 core members, visual artists Truong Cong Tung, Phan Thao Nguyen and curator/ writer Arlette Quynh-Anh Tran, work in between visual arts, social and life sciences in order to produce alternative non-formal knowledge via artistic and cultural activities.

Saturday, April 18

at 6:00pm - 8:00pm

about 6 months ago

Thuần Sắc Phiêu Lưu - The Adventure of Color Wheel, Ho Chi Minh City Eye Hospital, 21 January 2015 

For english please scroll down. 

THUẦN SẮC PHIÊU LƯU 
Tác phẩm công cộng của nhóm Lao Động Nghệ Thuật 
Tác phẩm cố định ở không gian, ra mắt từ 21 tháng 1 năm 2015 
Bệnh viện Mắt Thành phố Hồ Chí Minh 
Khoa Nhi 

‘Thuần Sắc Phiêu Lưu’ là một dự án tạo ra tác phẩm nghệ thuật công cộng do nhóm nghệ sĩ Lao Động Nghệ Thuật khởi xướng và thực hiện từ tháng 7 năm 2014 tới tháng 1 năm 2015 tại Khoa Nhi, Bệnh viện Mắt TPHCM, với sự hỗ trợ từ Sàn Art, Quỹ Lions Clubs International, Sơn Kansai, Màu vẽ Mango, Quỹ Hoàng tử Claus, nghệ sĩ Đỗ Lãng, Đạt Nguyễn, Duy Thông, kiến trúc sư Oanh Nguyễn. Tác phẩm bao gồm việc thiết kế lại toàn bộ không gian của Khoa Nhi, trong đó có tranh tường, biển hiệu, bảng tên, đồ nội thất,… 

Bước ra khỏi thang máy cổ còn lưu lại từ thời thuộc địa của Bệnh viện Mắt TPHCM, đi dọc hành lang, ta sẽ thấy từng hàng chữ cái E xoay nhiều hướng vẽ trên trần, trông tựa như tranh trừu tượng, nhưng thực chất đó lại là bài kiểm tra mắt cho người bị mù chữ. Hành lang này dẫn ta tới Khoa Nhi, nơi mắt ta sẽ hút vào những bức tranh tường tô hàng ngàn vòng tròn đủ màu trên trần nhà; trong khi đó, quang cảnh rực rỡ của những xứ sở tưởng tượng nhảy múa trên tường của các phòng bệnh. 

Từ tháng bảy tới tháng chín năm 2014, nhóm Lao Động Nghệ Thuật hướng dẫn các lớp cho các bệnh nhi, khuyến khích các em tiếp xúc và chơi đùa cùng màu sắc và sáng tạo. Đồng thời, nhóm tìm hiểu khả năng cảm thụ thẩm mỹ của bệnh nhi mắt, kết hợp nghiên cứu các phương pháp chẩn đoán trong ngành Nhãn khoa. Cộng hưởng với trí tưởng tượng của người nghệ sĩ, tác phẩm công cộng ‘Thuần Sắc Phiêu Lưu’ ra đời. 

Lần đầu tiên tại Việt Nam, một bệnh viện hợp tác cùng những nhà thực hành nghệ thuật thị giác. Chuyên gia Nhãn khoa thuộc Bệnh viện Mắt TPHCM chia sẻ tri thức y khoa cho thành viên nhóm Lao Động Nghệ Thuật, cho nhóm tiếp xúc với các bệnh nhi và đưa không gia điều trị cho nghệ sĩ cải tạo kiến trúc nội thất. Sự công tác liên ngành này – giữa sự sáng tạo của nghệ thuật thị giác, tính hồn nhiên trẻ thơ và trí tuệ của khoa học – đã tạo ra một không gian độc đáo, thân thiện cho bệnh nhân, nơi mà họ được điều trị trong lòng tác phẩm nghệ thuật. 

Ngày 21 tháng 1 năm 2015, tác phẩm công cộng ‘Thuần Sắc Phiêu Lưu’ tại không gian Khoa Nhi, Bệnh viện Mắt TPHCM sẽ chính thức ra mắt. Nhóm Lao Động Nghệ Thuật sẽ tổ chức 1 tour ngắn giới thiệu cụ thể quá trình thực hiện dự án và tham quan tác phẩm trong không gian đặc biệt này. 

ĐỊA ĐIỂM: Phòng 3, Khoa Nhi 
Bệnh viện Mắt Thành Phố Hồ Chí Minh 
Tầng 3, 280 Điện Biên Phủ
Quận 3, TPHCM 
THỜI GIAN: 3h chiều, thứ tư ngày 21 tháng 1 năm 2015 

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THE ADVENTURE OF COLOR WHEEL 
Public artwork by Art Labor collective 

Permanent artwork, launched from 21 January 2015 
Ho Chi Minh City Eye Hospital 
Pediatrics Department 


The project ‘The adventure of Color Wheel’ is a project creating public artwork, which is initiated and realized by Art Labor collective from July 2014 to January 2015 at Pediatrics Department, HCMC Eye Hospital, with support from Sàn Art, Lions Clubs International Foundation, Kansai Paint, Mango Art Material, Prince Claus Fund, artist Lang Do, Dat Nguyen, Duy Thong and architect Oanh Nguyen. The artwork is re-designing the whole space of Pediatrics Department, including mural paintings and drawings, signs, billboards, interiors, furniture… 

Walking from the old lift of HCMC Eye Hospital, which is still preserved from colonial time, along the entrance corridor, you will see lines of rotating E letters overhead looking like abstract paintings yet they are in fact eye vision test for illiterate people. This corridor leads you to Pediatrics Department, where your eyes will be lulled to various mural paintings of thousands of colored circles on the corridors’ ceiling while brightly painterly landscapes of another imagined realm dance across each room’s walls. 

From July to September 2014, Art Labor instructed weekly art classes for children patients, encouraging them to play with colors creatively. At the same time, the collective learned the children’s capacity of aesthetic perception and gained more knowledge of eye diagnoses in Ophthalmology. Combining those aspects with the artists’ imagination, the public artwork ‘The adventure of Color Wheel’ was born. 

For the first time in Vietnam, a health care institution has collaborated with contemporary art practitioners. Ophthalmologists of HCMC Eye Hospital shared their medical knowledge with Art Labor members, introduced the collective to meet their children patients and opened up their therapeutic space for the collective to transform interior architecture. This interdisciplinary collaboration - among visual art, children’s natural mind and medical knowledge has resulted in a unique and friendly environment for the patients, where they receive treatment inside the embrace of artworks. 

On Wednesday 21 January 2015, ‘The adventure of Color Wheel’ will be launched. Art Labor collective will host a tour introducing the artwork process and guiding visitors through the artwork in this special environment.

VENUE: Room 3, Pediatrics Department, 
Ho Chi Minh City Eye Hospital 
3. Floor, 280 Điện Biên Phủ
District 3, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
TIME: 3PM, 21 January 2015

Haunted Threshold, Spirituality in Contemporary South East Asia, 9 November-21 December 2014

ARTISTS
Art Labor, Maung Day, Riel Hilario, Ho Tzu Nyen, Nguyen Trinh Thi, Jakrawal Nilthamrong, Yudi Noor, Kaensan Rattanasomrerk, John Frank Sabado, Taiki Sakpisit, Chulayarnnon Siriphol, Than Sok, Truong Cong Tung, Apichatpong Weerasethakul, Entang Wiharso

CURATOR
Lauren Reid

EXHIBITION
9 November - 21 December 2014
Kunstverein Göttingen
Altes Rathaus
Marktplatz 9, 37073 Göttingen

Exploring Art with Eyes & Colors, 17 July 17- 21 August, 2014 

Within the project ‘Unconditional Belief’, Art Labor collective organize the program ‘Exploring Art with Eyes & Colors’ at HCMC Eye Hospital.

This is a series of art classes, which are designed specifically for children inpatients at Pediatrics Department – the inpatients under the age of 15 who are operated, treated and cared at the hospital in 3-5 days. Having decreased vision, these children observe the surrounding and objects differently from normal kids; therefore their ability to perceive colors, shapes, and lines is also different. The program provides the young inpatients opportunity to discover the art world in their unique way. Weaker vision does not mean their world somber. Conversely, they can acquire the artistic capacity even more liberal and eccentric, since their imagination is hardly limited in the things seen by normal eyes. Art Labor hopes to stimulate a belief in colorful and inspirational world from these children inpatients.

‘Exploring Art with Eyes & Colors’ is the beginning step for a bigger public artwork, which the collective will produce at HCMC Eye Hospital. From the inpatients’ pieces, Art Labor will be based on, take inspiration and re-design the interior of Pediatrics Department, to make the patient reception area and staying rooms more artistic and lively. If sickness is a burden causing people lose faith, art may help re-filling their faith almost without any condition, except the imagination and open-minded.

Unconditional Belief, 27 February - 29 April, 2014  

Art Labor’s Unconditional Belief is an invited project of Prod/Ponder of Conscious Realities program at Sàn Art.

Location: Sàn Art

3 Me Linh, Binh Thanh Dist, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam