Closing Event a part of Month of Art Practice – MAP 2023

04 pm – 06 pm (GMT +7), Fri 08 Dec 2023
The Goethe-Institut
No.56-60 Nguyen Thai Hoc st., Ba Dinh dist., Hanoi
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From the organizer:

Mobility changes the world in all aspects. What does mobility mean in the face of unstable environmental, political, and social conditions? Month of Art Practice (MAP) invited artists with a diversity of perspectives to explore the topic from a personal to a global level, creating different narratives and nuanced images. MAP 2023 – The Alternative Mobility is a collaboration between Hochschule für Künste Bremen (HfK) and Heritage Space in Hanoi, Vietnam, and part of the BMBF Collaborative Research Project Bremen Goes Sustainable BreGoS.

To look back on 4 working months of MAP 2023, Heritage Space respectfully invites art lovers and friends to attend the Project’s Closing discussion and to listen to how MAP has been implemented by two artist groups in two cities. The part of Hanoi will be presented by curator Nguyen Anh Tuan (Heritage Space), and the Bremen’s part will be shared by artist-art educator Ingo Vetter. After that, there will be the response/reflection from Thảo Linh Đinh (artist-founder of Ba Bau Air) and artist Hoàng Nguyễn as independent observers, and then the time for an open Q&A with the audience. The conversation will be coordinated and led by curator-art researcher Hai Nam Nguyen.

The Month of Art Practice 2023 is organized by Heritage Space in collaboration with The University of the Arts Bremen, sponsored by the Goethe-Institut, Korea Foundation, and Pro Helvetia Swiss Arts Council. The project is made possible with the assistance of domestic spaces-organizations, including the Vietnam National Institute Culture and Arts Studies (VICAS), Á Space, Matca, ba-bau AIR, Sao La Collective, A sông, Mơ Art Space, as well as the media partnership with ASEF 360 Culture (under the Asia-Europe Foundation), Hanoi Grapevine, Artplas and Art Republik Vietnam.

Program:
16:00 – 16:05 | Speech by Mr. Oliver Brandt, Director of the Goethe Institut Hanoi.
16:05 – 16:25 | Presentation by Nguyen Anh Tuan, Heritage Space/ MAP project director, providing details on Hanoi-based exhibitions, programs, artists, working groups, and results.
16:25 – 16:45 | Presentation by Ingo Vetter, HfK Bremen/ project co-director, on the theme of Alternative Mobility, project content taking place in Bremen: time, artists, programs, exhibitions, Working group, results.
16:45 – 17:00 | Reflection by Thảo Linh Đinh, independent artist-founder of Ba Bau Airr, as an observer of the working process of the MAP project and gives an objective assessment.
17:00 – 17:15 | Statement by Hoàng Nguyễn, an independent artist, as an observer of the working process of the MAP project and gives an objective assessment.
17:15 – 17:45 | Discussion and Q&A between speakers and Moderators. Q&A with the audience attending the program.
17:45 | Some concluding words from Ingo Vetter/Nguyen Anh Tuan. End program.

Language: Vietnamese and English.

*Free entry. Maximum number of participants: 100 pax (Goethe Institut) and 100 pax (via ZOOM)
**We aim to reduce plastic waste and carbon emissions in our culture and art events, so please bring personal bottles and avoid bringing drinks in disposable cups to the event.
***The event will be documented in the form of images and audio recordings, serving the purposes of storage, research, survey, and promotion… of the author and Heritage Space. By participating, the audience agrees to allow Heritage Space (and the author) the right to use your images and opinions as material for the program.

About speakers:

Nguyen Anh Tuan is an independent art curator and manager based in Hanoi, Viet Nam. He graduated from the Hanoi Fine Arts University (now is Vietnam Fine Art University), in major of Theory & History of Arts. Tuan has worked as art researcher at the Institute of Art from 2002 – 2015, and as program manager of Muong AIR, the artist-in-residency program of Muong Studio from 2012 – 2016, and has taken on the responsibility as country director appointed by the Indochina Arts Partnership (2016 2019). Since March 2016, he was appointed to be Artistic director of Heritage Space – an independent art organisation in Hanoi, Viet Nam. Considering art as an approach and tool for social development, Tuan offers diverse initiatives and ways to nurture the arts, interacting directly with the special context in Vietnam and diverse communities.

Ingo Vetter is a visual artist working with sculpture, photography, and installations. He exhibits internationally and often collaborates with other artists, resulting in long-term engagements like the Detroit Tree of Heaven Woodshop (since 2005). An interest in city development and concepts of public space led to research projects like Shrinking Cities (2002-2008) and consultancies like his commission for a constantly moving public park in Kiruna, a mining city in the very north of Sweden (2011-17) or the public look-out Horizontalturm Mistelbach in Austria. Since 2011, he has taught as a professor for sculpture at the University of the Arts Bremen, Germany with a specific focus on artistic materials and production in globalization.

Thao-Linh Dinh is a Vietnam based multi/interdisciplinary artist-curator who strives to create spaces of expression – whether physical, temporal, or psychological where people from different communities are brought together. Notions of her works and her works move around the small corners of ba-bau AIR house, 82A Tho Nhuom, Hoan Kiem, Hanoi to other places: Thái Nguyên University (Thái Nguyên, Việt Nam, 2021), documentafifteen (Kassel, Germany, 2022), VIVA ExCon 2023 (Antique, Panay Island, the Philippines, 2023).

Minh-Hoang Nguyen (b. 1992) takes an approach to photographic storytelling that is both conceptual and documentary. He creates fantastical self-portraits to connect with the world and its objects, people, ideas, and history. When not making self-portraits, Nguyen photographs the absurd drama of everyday life around him. Nguyen earned his MFA in Experimental and Documentary Arts at Duke University in North Carolina, U.S.A., where he produced Title Wanted, a project on the historical trauma of the Vietnam War, and Crimson Heart, a project on love. In 2017, he created You Are Here, a project about finding a sense of home. My Dear Solitude is his ongoing street series meditating on the liminal state between isolation and intimacy.

About moderator:

Hai Nam Nguyen completed his Bachelor in Art History, Media and Communication Science from Martin Luther University Halle Wittenberg. Nguyen received the curator Scholarship from the Cultural Foundation of the Free State of Saxony (Kulturstiftung des Freistaates Sachsens) and worked as an assistant curator at the museum for Contemporary Art Leipzig (GfZK). Currently, he’s working as an independent curator/ researcher with Haus der Kulturen der Welt in Berlin while managing AntiRaQua- a project training immigrant social workers about antiracism in Halle (Saale)