About artist talk:
In 1986, Vietnam launched the "Doi Moi" (Economic Revolution) movement, which promoted economic and political reforms that had a great impact on Vietnamese contemporary art. Since then, Vietnamese contemporary artists have broken with the official academy of art and united to experiment with different media to express their reflections on the development of modern Vietnamese society. The themes of their art production are very diverse, dealing with subjects such as women in Vietnam, environmental issues, corruption, family, war, communism or childhood, individual rights, and so on. The artists care about these themes and express their concerns in the form of performance art, installation artworks, paintings, video, sculpture and photography. Their works are powerful and poetic, and convey their resistance to the power from the state and global capital.
In this talk, artists Nguyễn Phương Linh and Tuan mami from Vietnam and Austrian artist Brigitte Prinzgau will share and discuss the complex relationship between history and reality, art and society, from their own experiences in art making and curating, with the participating artists and audience.
Bio of artists:
Nguyễn Phương Linh (Vietnam)
Born in 1985, Nguyễn Phương Linh is a Hà Nội-based multidisciplinary artist whose practice spans video, sculpture and installation. Her choice of materials (including salt, dust and rubber fragments) and research interests deal with the transformation of geopolitical landscapes, human manipulation of nature, and alternative historical perspectives of modern Việt Nam. Nguyen Phuong Linh’s art explores themes of sexuality and feminity, As the co-founder and co-director of Nhà Sàn Collective, Phương Linh is regarded as an emerging talent among Việt Nam’s contemporary art-makers. She has participated in various international exhibitions and art projects in Asia, Europe and the US, such as Asian Pacific Triennial, Singapore Biennale, Shanghai Biennale, Kuandu Biennale as well as HIWAR at Darat Al Funun Jordan. In 2018, she received the Hans Nefkin Award at BACC Bangkok.
Brigitte Prinzgau (Austria)
Born 1955; Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna, diploma 1980; Vienna University of Technology; works in the fields of fine arts, film, and architecture; together with podgorschek numerous projects and installations in Austria and abroad. “The research Body Embedding/Vietnam-Nha San Collective focused on hair, especially cut hair. Witnessing an art project of an artist and a curator cutting the hair of willing participants, with no claim for a correct cut, I developed the feeling that the production of art in Vietnam has it’s own rules, that it was not comparable with western attitude. Things seem to happen more in the in-betweens than out in the open. One hair cut can mean to pass the known order without being noticed, but at the same time to make a lot of noise by circumventing the established situations.” (Brigitte Prinzgau)
Tuan mami (Vietnam)
Tuan Mami lives and works in Hanoi. Mami is an interdisciplinary-experimental artist, working with site-specific installation, video, performance, and conceptual art, who constantly explores new mediums, means, and methods of evolving with reflective questioning, and social research. His focus deals with questions about life, social interactions between people, and people with their environment, to re-construct situations into ones that engage people or objects from particular reality to enter and involve together in a social process. Other than being a creator, he has Co-founded MAC-Hanoi, (2012); Being Co-founder and board member of Nha San Collective in Hanoi since 2013 till now; Visiting Faculty at San Francisco Art Institute, USA in 2013; Co-founder and Artistic director of Á Space- An Experimental Art Space from 2018 till now.
Artist talk with:
Nguyễn Phương Linh (Vietnam)
Brigitte Prinzgau (Austria)
Tuan mami (Vietnam)
Title: Stories of resistance and resilience
Time: Nov 27, 2021,02:00 PM Vienna