HCMC – The closing week of “Graffiti in the Alley”

The closing week of “Graffiti in the Alley”: 02 – 07 Aug 2011
Zero Station

From Zerostation:

Now we are coming very close to the end of the project “Graffiti in the alley”, by ZeroStation and Click 9, at the quarter 288 Nam Ky Khoi Nghia, ward 8, district 3, HCMC.

For the entire 26 days of the project (from 12 July to 07 August), since the first day when all artists from Click 9 were totally new ones entering in a very unfamiliar spraying environment, and when the residents at the quarter 288 Nam Ky Khoi Nghia curiosly observed something they almost have never seen before, up to now, there has been a dialogue, sometimes explicitly, sometimes implicitly, and sometimes both explicitly and implicitly, which has taken place between both sides, They and We, the old and the new, the familiarity and the unfamiliartity.

From the perspective of the organizer of the project, we have tried to make place for the existence of the others at the same time and in the same space by which, open the possibilities of the Gadamerian dialogue for both sides. We hope that it is in the process of the multi-dimensional dialogue that a new space of the translation of each other, which is named the understading by Gadamer, will be opened up automatically.

In the space of this translation, of this understanding, there will automatically be new activities such as interpretation, application, or even loan translation from which the dialogue will reach an ideal situation for all dialoguing partners, the situation of extending the horizons and then of fusioning horizions but at the same time no one gets lost in the imposing discourse, not only by the others, but also by herself in the process of trying to impose the others.

In this closing week, from 02 to 07 August 2011, there will be two events.

The first event is from 02 to 06 of August (from 1:00 pm to 7:00 pm everyday). In these days, the artists from Click 9 will be still finishing their wall drawing outside, and at the same time, they will organize the displays of all visual and textual information reporting their whole work in the space inside of ZeroStation. The audience could come and have in person talk with the artists.

The second event is the closing party at 6:00 pm, 07 August 2011 (Sunday). This is an open party not only for the artists, the organizer, but also for all audience, especially for the residents living in the alley who have been the organic part of the project “Graffiti in the alley”.