HCMC – The Missing List(s) 2010

27 Apr – 02 May, 09 am – 09 pm daily
PI-CHANNEL shop
31B Le Thanh Ton
District 1, HCMC

albb Open Studio Program continues into its tenth and final week with Susan Olij, here from Singapore. If you have not yet made it along to the studio, this week is the last chance to experience this unique opportunity to interact with contemporary art, artists and creative life in Ho Chi Minh City!

Susan Olij is a visual artist who, in addition to making her own artworks, also runs creative workshops for people in Singapore. In one of these workshops entitled Drawing Using Your Right Brain, participants create drawings that reveal both their own intuitive symbol system, and also that of their world.

You are invited to come visit Susan and explore drawing and your own symbolic language. Everyone will receive charcoal and rice paper, and will be asked to draw and create their own symbols. A selection of these images will gradually be displayed on the walls, creating an emerging symbolic system representative of the people in HCMC.

Susan Olij was born in Indonesia in 1974. She has a background in fashion design, which she studied in the UK and USA before working in the field in both the USA and Singapore. She later received a scholarship to study visual art at LaSalle College of Arts / Open University London in Singapore where she completed her Masters in 2009. Susan has exhibited in Singapore, Indonesia and Australia. This is her second visit to Vietnam.

Her interests as an artist include communication, psychology and drawing. Her multi-disciplinary art practice is fuelled by cross-cultural studies and theories of thought and belief systems. Running Olij Studio is a perfect avenue to continue her research into such areas, especially as concerns creativity. She is currently developing a specialized course in drawing, using the research and science of the right brain.

Please visit albb’s blog for more information on the program and participating artist, or follow this project on albb’s Facebook page.

a little blah blah (albb) is an artists’ initiative that since 2005 has operated as a platform for contemporary art through a wide range of channels including projects, exhibitions & events, screenings, talks, a residency program, internships and an open-access archive of art books & catalogues. Our program has evolved in a pioneering spirit, in response to the gaps and needs of the Saigon art scene. Since 2008 we have re-focussed our program to presenting one major project each year, capacity building and the ongoing running of albb Reading Room.