Open Archive Mao Khe Coal Mine Project 2001 Video Screening and Talk
Sun 05 June 2022, 02:30 pm
APD (Center for Art Patronage and Development)
Creative Square
No.1, Luong Yen, Bach Dang, Hai Ba Trung, Hanoi.
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From the organizer:
It has been almost 21 years since Mao Khe Coal Mine Project started in October 2001. At that moment, neither the organizers nor the artists who had been involved in the project could have predicted that it would become a part of Southeast Asian and East Asian contemporary art’s history.
Four months after its completion, the project’s exhibition was opened at Hanoi Contemporary Art Center in February 2002. Its video documentary was then largely shown at various locations around the world until recently, right before the outbreak of Covid – 19: from the House of World Culture (HKW) in Berlin, Germany to the Havana Biennale in La Havana, Cuba, SEA experimental film festival in Bangkok, Thailand & Redcat L.A., USA, National Gallery Singapore, Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, Fukuoka Asian Art Museum, Japan, Art Museum Kaohsiung Museum of Fine Art, Taiwan…
More than two decades have passed, yet there were not many chances for the project documentary to be shown publicly in Vietnam (only twice and under limited conditions). Therefore, the Vietnamese audience especially the young generation only knows briefly about it.
APD is pleased to invite you to the 2-channel video of Mao Khe Coal Mine Project’s screening. This will be an occasion for us to meet and discuss with artists from the project and throwback to its memories and hopefully will help young-generation artists and art lovers better understand the transition period of Vietnamese art from Modern to Contemporary and inherit the great creative energy from previous periods of time despite the differences and difficulties.
Mao Khe Coal Project‘s video information:
2 channels, 18:41, 4:3 aspect ratio, HD resolution with English subtitles.
This version was supported by National Gallery Singapore, specially made for the exhibition “Between Declarations and Dreams: Art of Southeast Asia since the 19th Century” at Southeast Asia Permanent galleries/National Gallery Singapore. Exhibited from 2015 to 2021.
Program timeline:
14:30 – 15:00 Visit APD and see artworks.
15:00 – 15:20 Video screening of Mao Khe Coal Mine Project.
15:20 – 15:35 Break time (serving tea and coffee)
15:35 – 16:30 Talk with project members.
16:30 – 17:30 Q&A with the audience.
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