Project “Reimagine The Artist/Artisan” – Event No. 4: Thin Silk, Iridescent Fibers and Colorful Threads
Sun 13 Nov 2016, 3 pm
Six Space
From the organizer:
Handmade embroidery has a history of more than 700 years of development in Vietnam. Until feudal, embroidery was considered as one of the professions that were to serve the Royal family and the noble. Embroidery products are completed by the fabric materials which are the results of creativity works of Vietnamese craftsmanship artisans. Nowadays, embroidery also serves in daily life and has developed to become part of contemporary textile art.
Event 04 “Thin Silk, Iridescent Fibers & Colorful Threads” is a conversation between Dong Cuu embroidery village artisan Vu Gioi and artist Tram Ngoc Pham on the topic of imperial embroidery art and modern embroidery art. Gioi Vu is an artisan who was born in a family of 5 generations practicing traditional embroidery and has a profoundly passionate desire to restoring techniques of imperial embroidery, as well as royal robes. Meanwhile, Tram is a young artist who uses embroidery as her contemporary art practicing medium. The two will share with the audience their own career paths in the embroidery along with the interface interaction between an artist and artisan when they meet and face the situation of embroidery at the time of being.
Event No. 4 will include:
– A conversation between artisans and artist Tram Ngoc Pham
– An exhibition of artisan Gioi Vu’s and artist Tram Ngoc Pham’s highlight artworks
– An exhibition of craftsmanship tools and equipment.
ABOUT ARTISAN GIOI VU
Van was born from a family with long tradition for imperial embroidery in 1969, and was taught by his grandfather and father, masters in embroidery for His Royal Highness and noble people in the old time of Vietnam. In 1992, coming back home from the army, he continued his family’s business for embroidery and did many exported items, train and created for many other people in the villages. In 1993, he started to research and restore royal robes with the help from a royal descendant. Since then this has become his major, and he has been recognized as the one and only master artisan who can reproduce properly the precious royal robes. His works are now exhibited at the National Museum for Royal Arts, honored by UNESCO when they recognized the Imperial City of Hue. He was rewarded by the City of Hanoi as the Excellent Artisan in 2013.
ABOUT ARTIST TRAM NGOC PHAM
Tram Ngoc Pham is an independent embroidery artist. Graduated from Viet Nam National University of Fine Arts in 2006 and was trained in embroidery at Ecole Lesage in Paris in 2013, she established Meo Meo Atelier – a space specialized in hand embroidery in Hoi An. She has done numerous researches on textile art as well as embroidery techniques during personal trips to France, Indian, Greece, Denmark, Sweden, Thailand, Laos, etc… as well as is learning traditional embroideries from the master artisans across Vietnam.
*More of her portfolio here
ABOUT THE PROJECT “REIMAGINE THE ARTIST/ARTISAN”
The project is created and run by a group of multidisciplinary artists and art researchers who are inspired, nostalgic and passionate about the history, knowledge, aesthetics and possibilities of art craftsmanship and craft villages in Vietnam.
Launched in 2016, this participatory art-based research project aims to foster learning, dialogue and collaboration among artists, artisans and the wider public to openly converse on:
• The cultural, aesthetic and social functions of the artist/artisan in the creative process and production
• The present and future relationship as well as shared influence between artists and artisans
• Internal and external factors that influence the aesthetics, creative process and production of craft villages and artisans
• Transformation in ways of seeing and practicing craftsmanship
• Revitalizing and reimagining craftsmanship in handicraft and art production
• Preservation and possibilities, cross-fertilization and innovation in art and crafts
The project includes participatory art-based research; mapping of handicraft villages in North Vietnam; a peer-learning residency program linking artists and artisans in handicraft villages; and a series of public workshops and exhibitions featuring distinguished artisans and innovative artwork inspired by traditional Vietnamese handicrafts.
The project is managed by Six Space with financial sponsorship from Prince Claus Fund “The future is handmade – Redesigning Crafts”.
The talk will be conducted only in Vietnamese.
Free entrance.
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