Goethe – Veronika Radulovic

[UPDATE – time change – begin 6pm]

– Thurs 09 Oct, 7:30–10:30pm –

“Old videos – worth a look!”

A documentation by artist and Hanoi art scene insider Veronika Radulovic. With only a simple Hi8 video camera – no tripod, no special lighting – Veronika Radulovic and a group of young artists and art students produced a wide variety of videos from 1995 to 1998. They were made on the streets, in the Hanoi Fine Arts University and on trips to northern Vietnam. A conversation with a Hmong weaver, or a mysterious art performance in a mountain village were captured on video, as was the first Christmas mass in the Catholic church in Sapa. These first attempts to create images with a video camera resulted in a most diverse group of films. Successful or not, the results are spontaneous, unapologetically unprofessional, and never edited – but also undoubtedly interesting documents of their time. They will be shown for the first time in Hanoi in the form of a video collage (approx. 90 min). Following the presentation there will be opportunities for discussion and exchange. The audience is welcome to bring their own experiments on DVD. Veronika Radulovic lives and works in Bielefeld (Germany) and Hanoi (Vietnam). She first came to Hanoi in the early 1990’s where she studied Vietnamese lacquer art. (First joint exhibition in Hanoi January 1994 together with Le Hong Thai and Bui Huu Hung at the exhibition space 29 Hang Bai, Hanoi). In the years 1994 until 2005 she worked as a lecturer at the Hanoi University of Fine Arts sponsored by DAAD (German Academic Exchange Service). At the college she established a large collection of books and videos on contemporary international art. Working as a mediator between German and Vietnamese art, in 1995 she organized together with Dr. Detlef Böckmann (BASF-Germany) the exhibition “Lacquer, Earth, Stone” at the Museum für Lackkunst Münster (Germany), contributed to the “Gap Vietnam” project at the House of World Cultures in Berlin (1998) and assisted in organizing various exhibitions, for example: at Ludwig Forum for International Art Aachen, Kunsthalle Bielefeld and Substation Singapore. In addition, various articles, radio and TV talks and exhibitions about Vietnamese contemporary art and social life after “Doi Moi”.