A one-day intensive workshop: The Othering Self – history • culture • heritage • identity
09:30 AM – 05:30 PM, Sat 05 Sep 2026
Heritage Art Space Library
2nd Floor, Complex 01
Alley 167 Tây Sơn, Hanoi
Registration link (Limited 10-12 people)
From the organizer:
Who are we beyond our names, professions, religions, nationalities, and social identities?
This one-day intensive workshop explores “Othering the Self” as a creative methodology for understanding identity through history, culture, heritage, philosophy, and lived experience. By stepping outside familiar narratives, participants learn to observe themselves as both insiders and outsiders, revealing how identity is continuously shaped by memory, place, language, objects, rituals, relationships, and collective histories.
Through observation, dialogue, drawing, mapping, writing, and material experimentation, participants transform personal reflection into artistic inquiry. The workshop encourages participants to question inherited assumptions while discovering new ways of seeing themselves and others through creative practice.
Facilitator: Narendra Raghunath
Language: English and Vietnamese
Who should apply: Art students, artists, and cultural practitioners who are at the beginning or in the middle stage of their careers.
About the facilitator:
Prof. Narendra Raghunath
Artist, Designer, Educator, Researcher
A graduate from Centre for Environment Planning and Technology University, Ahmedabad, he is currently pursuing a research based practice investigating ecology, material culture, consciousness, and artistic practice through long-term field research in the Western Ghats of India.
For over two decades, he has taught foundation, undergraduate, and postgraduate programmes in contemporary art, design thinking, visual culture, media arts, history of art and architecture, community practice, and Indian philosophy.
His artistic practice spans drawing, installation, socially engaged art, participatory projects, and site-responsive work. His exhibitions include the SWAB Barcelona, Dubai Art Fair, Milan Affordable Art Fair, Lalit Kala Akademi, Chitrakala Parishath, Gwangju and Busan Art Fairs, and Vienna University of Technology, among others.
His workshops combine artistic inquiry with philosophy, ecology, heritage, material culture, and creative experimentation, encouraging participants to engage critically with identity, place, memory, and society through reflective and collaborative making. Through his writings, public lectures, and research, he advocates creativity as a way of understanding the interconnected relationships between people, culture, history, and the environment.
Note:
– This is a non-profit event. All participant contributions will be transferred to the artist in full immediately after the workshop concludes.
– Please bring your own reusable water bottle (if possible) and help us reduce the use of single-use plastics during the workshop. Complimentary tea and drinking water will be available for self-service at the library.
– The workshop will be documented through photography and audio recording for the purposes of archiving, research, evaluation, and promotion by the artist and Heritage Art Space. By attending, participants consent to Heritage Art Space (and the artist) using their image and comments as documentation for the program.
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