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Deadline: 11 July – 05 August 2022
Link for application

From the organizer:

Within the framework of the project Hanoi RethinkFostering creative industries and digital fabrication in Hanoi, Fab City hosts the Design Challenge with the theme of Circular Living from July 11 to September 30. The objective of the challenge is to seek new ideas that can motivate and develop the values and heritage of Hanoi in the cultural and creative economy. The programme is organised with the collaboration of three UN agencies including UNESCO, UNIDO and UN-Habitat.

This can take shape in projects using traditional crafts, digital fabrication technologies, & extended design. We invite ideas lying in the interaction between the past and the future, the old and the new, the tangible and intangible, through innovative strategies, approaches and solutions.

We are looking for approaches to design and innovation that are multidisciplinary, innovative and sustainable, and that showcase the talents of Vietnam’s makers, designers and creatives. The Circular Living design challenge invites creative design ideas that respond to these challenges:

– Heritage, crafts and new technologies
– Distributed Design principles
– Food systems and new materials
– Waste-to-value proposals
– New Education models

Project ideas may explore these themes by drawing connections between the heritage of Ha Noi and possible pathways to create new narratives around them to design the Creative City of Ha Noi. Or buy revisiting materials for urban resilience with circular production models.

Application Process

Stage 1 is open for all → Stage 2 will be for the winners of Stage 1

Open for Entries → Monday, July 11th
1st Stage Submissions Deadline → Sunday, July 31th at 23:59 Vietnam Time
1st Stage Winners Announcement → Monday, August 15th
2nd Stage Submission Deadline → Sunday, September 17th at 23:59 Vietnam Time
2nd Stage Winners Announcement → Friday, September 30th
Project Development for Winners → till December 31st

This contest is for:

This contest is open to anyone working in the creative disciplines dealing with Design and Making: creative players, makers, designers, craftsmen, artists, architects, scientists, students, hobbyists and professionals. You may participate individually or in a team. We promote diversity, equity and inclusion. Inviting everyone, with Hanoi-based projects, independent of their origin, ethnicity, culture, gender identification or religious background to join!

Find more details about the challenge here

About Hanoi Rethink Project – Fostering creative industries and digital fabrication in Hanoi

UNIDO, the specialized agency of the United Nations that promotes industrial development for poverty reduction, inclusive globalization and environmental sustainability, has joined forces with UNESCO and UN Habitat to support Ha Noi’s vision to be the Creative Capital of Vietnam. The three UN agencies have formed a partnership under the Joint Programme entitled Mobilizing Cultural Dynamics and Youth Participation for Ha Noi Creative Capital.

In this joint programme, UNIDO will undertake a mapping of the fab labs and creative hubs in Ha Noi, provide a training programme on industrial design and I4.0 technologies for creative industries and organize a design contest to support the development of innovative solutions in the creative industries sector in collaboration with local fab labs, companies, and other institutions/universities. The project is coordinated by the Fab City Foundation who will work closely with UNIDO offices in Vietnam and Austria.

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03 pm – 05 pm, Sun 24 Mar 2024
Á’s Library
Alley 59 Ngo Gia Tu, Long Bien, Hanoi

From the organizer:

Let’s welcome two of our friends, Yuni Hadi (Programme Consultant) and Olivia Tay (Programme Coordinator) from The Substation — Singapore’s first independent art organisation founded in 1990, to Á Space in Hanoi’s last remaining cold days.

Our tie began when Á joined the Substation’s inaugural ‘Sub+ Incubator Collabs’ programme, which runs from 26/02 to 26/04, with the participation of Linh San, a Hanoi-based visual artist who is an alumni of Á’s Solo Marathon programme in 2022. Supporting Linh San in the programme, there are Yuni Hadi, The Sub’s programme consultant, and Linh Lê, Á’s curatorial board member, and professional support from artist-mentor Jason Lim — an esteemed Singaporean ceramic and performance artist.

On this occasion, when everyone just happens to be in Hanoi at the same time, Á Space would like to extend an invitation to everyone who wants to learn from Yuni and Olivia more about The Substation and its coming programme, as well as a little sneak peak into Linh San’s plan for ‘Sub+ Incubator Collabs’.

Capacity: 10 people
Language: English

Biographies:

Yuni Hadi has spent a large part of the last 25 years promoting Southeast Asian cinema and contributing to the culture and arts scene as an arts manager, curator and producer. She started project managing for an animation company before joining The Substation in 1999 as Programme Manager and Editor (of Substance). She continued to champion Singapore stories as Commissioning Editor at MediaCorp Arts Central in 2003 and later went on to take on leadership roles as Co-Director of Objectifs Centre for Photography & Filmmaking in 2005 and Executive Director of the Singapore International Film Festival (2013-2019). She curated and commissioned dance films for the Singapore Arts Festival in 2011 and 2012, and co-produced the Cannes’ Camera d’Or winning film Ilo Ilo in 2013. Yuni published the book Behind the Camera (Objectifs Films) in 2013 and contributed to the book World Film Locations: Singapore (The University of Chicago Press) in 2014. In 2022, she wrote Bangkok Café (Five Finger Mountain).

Yuni is an Eisenhower Fellow and received the United Technologies Corporation Fellowship in 2016. In 2015, The Substation acknowledged her contribution to Singapore cinema with an Honourary Award at the Singapore Short Film Awards. In 2022, she received the Professional Achievement Award from Thailand’s Ramkhamhaeng University’s ASEAN Film Festival for outstanding contribution to ASEAN cinema. Yuni is currently Chairperson of The Substation and serves on the board of Objectifs Centre for Photography and Filmmaking.

Born and based in Singapore, Olivia has been an arts manager and programmer since 2014. Their expertise spans film curation, community engagement, festival organisation, and administrative management, sprinkled with occasional forays into corporate diversity and HR. With a background in film, literary arts and nonprofits, Olivia is passionate about creating inclusive spaces for artists to showcase their work and fostering strong arts communities and ecosystems. When not immersed in the arts, you might find them fully engrossed in video games, valiantly attempting CrossFit workouts, or guiltily neglecting the numerous books they’ve accumulated.

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Opening: 06 pm – 09 pm, Fri 29 Mar 2024
Exhibition: 09 am – 06 pm, Mon – Sat, 29 Mar – 29 June 2024
22 Gallery
22 Phạm Cự Lượng, Ward 2, Tân Bình district, HCMC
Registration link

From the organizer:

The solo exhibition “Hoạ Chiêu Hồn – Necromancy Painting” by artist Pham Tran Viet Nam embarks on an artistic journey that vividly portrays the human experience in all its complexities: trapped, yearning, or tormented souls of both the living and the departed.

Drawing inspiration from war, local historical narratives, global dilemmas, and haunted memories, Pham Tran Viet Nam creates “Họa Chiêu Hồn.” The collection comprises 17 artworks that transcend the boundaries of reality and illusion, reflecting the tumultuous emotions, precariousness, and agony of the contemporary world.

Pham Tran Viet Nam’s works, created between 2017 and 2024, are currently on display at 22 Gallery. This presentation not only introduces a fresh viewpoint on art to its audience but also acts as a reflection on life, an effort to heal and soothe restless souls.

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Opening: 06 pm, Thurs 28 Mar 2024
Exhibition: 11:00 am – 07 pm, Tues – Sat, 28 Mar – 04 May 2024
Galerie BAQ
15 rue Beautreillis, 75004 Paris

From the organizer:

It has been seven years since Hà Ninh Pham began constructing his own world within the My Land project, stemming from his time as a Master of Fine Arts student at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in Philadelphia. Fugitive Zone at Galerie BAQ marks the artist’s first solo exhibition in the heart of Paris, declaratively claiming space for a burgeoning My Land beyond its former boundaries.

For Hà Ninh – a non-traveler skeptical of extreme politics and weary of supposedly liberatory discourses imposed by Western empires on post-colonial countries – flying to a center of Europe to set up a new territory poses a direct challenge to the artist’s personal convictions. Yet this breach is essential to this phase of his practice.

Hà Ninh Pham, [mothermap] v1, graphite, watercolor and pastel on paper, 122 x 117 cm, 2019 (courtesy of Nguyen Art Foundation Collection)

Hà Ninh Pham, [mothermap] v1, graphite, watercolor and pastel on paper, 122 x 117 cm, 2019 (courtesy of Nguyen Art Foundation Collection)

Adhering to the core principles of [mothermap] , the “maps” exhibited in Fugitive Zone delineate units A2, B2, D4, and F4. These areas all belong to the Northern Hemisphere of the world that Hà Ninh constructs within My Land, originally planned in the early stages of the project to accommodate Western ideologies. As a means of resisting stereotypes imposed on Vietnamese art, the artist only uses “neutral” materials such as paper, charcoal, paint, ink, plastic (for 3D printing), etc., as a way to erase all traces of his identity and background.

Commenting on Hà Ninh Pham’s first solo exhibition, Cheat Codes (2019) at FRONT Art Space, New York, the art critic John Yau wrote:

“Hà Ninh Pham draws maps that lead to more maps… we get the sense that his drawings have to do with feelings of displacement and disruption – and that drawing a map can give him a sense of control.”

Staying true to that spirit, however, Hà Ninh’s control shifts from artworks, gradually extending into space; this progression can be clearly seen in subsequent solo exhibitions such as Recursive, Fables at A+ Works of Arts (2022, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia), or Entrusted Conjectures at Manzi Art Space (2023, Hanoi, Vietnam).

With Fugitive Zone, the artist utilizes the existing structure of Galerie BAQ, comprising a ground floor and a basement, transforming the gallery into a place of total freedom inside of a meticulously manipulated zone. Half of the exhibition space is only observable through a screen, broadcasted directly from the security camera installed in the basement. For the artist, the transmitted images represent the boundary between the real and the imagined world. That flat screen is also the only pathway into a space where viewers can gauge actual depth, something that cannot be fathomed when looking at those maps of paradoxical terrains. Accompanying the exhibition, as a key to delve into and decipher this world, the artist has written a set of “guidelines” called Fugitive Zone/substance, published in the form of a notebook/personal diary.

Hà Ninh Pham, B2 [Square Hamlet], graphite, acrylic, ink, and colored pencils on paper, 140x280cm, 2024.

Despite the title, Fugitive Zone is not an area to hide in the literal sense. Ha Ninh invites viewers into a liminal threshold, to fall into a state of skepticism between the surveyor and the surveilled; between hierarchical orders; between freedom and constraints. Conventional dimensions are overturned, and boundaries blurred. Viewers stand right inside the zone but are essentially always outsiders, observing these lands from afar, as through a bird’s-eye view.

*Special thanks to A+ Works of Art, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia for their support and collaboration on this project.

About the artist

Portrait of Hà Ninh Pham, 2022.
Photo by Kusuma Pandu Wijaya

Hà Ninh Pham (b. 1991, Hanoi, Vietnam) is a fine artist and arts educator. His work exploits how we construct our understanding of territories from a remote, “bird’s eye” perspective. Working predominantly with drawings on paper and with 3D-printed objects, Hà-Ninh invites viewers to explore the nuanced relationship between manual skill and technological precisions. Driven by a desire to completely suppress his identity from the interpretation of his work, Hà-Ninh is best known for My Land, where the artist imagines terrains that claim no pre-existing ties to Earth and to humanity, and indecipherable maps and unknowable artifacts are the only available clues to understanding this dimension.

He earned his MFA from the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, USA in 2018 and his BA from the Vietnam University of Fine Arts, Hanoi, Vietnam in 2014. He received the Silver Medal for Young Talents of Vietnamese Fine Arts Universities in 2015 and the Murray Dessiner Travel Award in 2018.

His notable exhibitions include Recursive Fables, A+ WORKS of ART, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, 2022; Institute of Distance, S.E.A Focus 2021 (S.E.A Focus Digital and S.E.A Focus Curated hyper-horizon), Tanjong Pagar Distripark, Singapore, 2021; Necessary Fictions, The Factory Contemporary Arts Centre, HCMC, Vietnam, 2019 and Cheat Codes, FRONT Art Space, New York, NY, USA, 2019.

He has participated in a wide range of residencies and projects, namely Programme de Réciprocité, Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris, France, 2022; 3rd ASEAN Artists Residency Programme, ASEAN Secretariat, Jakarta, Indonesia, 2022; Digital Design & Media Residency, RMIT University Vietnam, HCMC, Vietnam, 2020; Residency, PLOP, London, UK, 2019; Visual Art Residency, The Corporation of Yaddo, Saratoga Springs, NY, USA, 2019; and Month of Arts Practice, Heritage Space, Hanoi, Vietnam, 2015.

His works are collected by prominent public collections in Southeast Asia, including the Nguyen Art Foundation, The Yeap Lam Yang Collection, and The Outpost.

Hà Ninh Pham is represented by A+ Works of Art in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. He currently serves as a lecturer in the Faculty of Creative Industry Design at RMIT University Vietnam.

Hà Ninh Pham in his studio, 2020. Photo by Hoàng Thắng. Courtesy of the artist

About the gallery

Galerie BAQ opened in 2023, under the direction of Lê Thiên-Bảo and Quinnie SG Tan. Situated in the heart of Paris, Galerie BAQ champions and amplifies contemporary art from the world’s emerging centers of creativity, working directly and in collaboration with artists who have ties to Southeast Asia and their diasporic communities everywhere. In addition to artists whose work creates dialogue with Southeast Asia, Galerie BAQ is curious about forms of cultural production and creative expression that engage with complex histories and identities, reimagine traditions, and challenge dominant ideologies.

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* At TP HCM:
Opening: 10 am, Sat 23 Mar 2024
Exhibition: 08 am – 05 pm, 23 – 31 Mar 2024
Fine Arts Museum HCMC
97A Phó Đức Chính, D.1, HCMC
* At Hà Nội:
Exhibition: 09 am – 09 pm, 23 – 31 Mar 2024
The Muse Artspace
47 Tràng Tiền, Hoàn Kiếm district, Hà Nội

From the organizer:

A painting exhibition entitled “Art is long, and time is fleeting” curated by art researcher Van Vi, this exhibition will feature more than 100 pieces by 6 artists including: Phan Cam Thuong, Nguyen Van Trinh, Trieu Khac Tien, Vu Van Tich, Nguyen Quang Trung and Nguyen Dinh Son.

According to curator Van Vi, “in the hustle and bustle of everyday life, art in general, and painting in particular, offers us a rest stop to slow down, get refreshments, and indulge in the fluctuation of our own feelings. The painting exhibition ‘Art is long, and time is fleeting’ will span 6 separate rooms, each dedicated to one artist”.

Phan Cam Thuong is a painter and also recognized as the most influential cultural researcher in the most recent 2 decades when he has published 18 books diving deep into Vietnamese art and culture. Thuong will bring to this exhibition his succession of silk paintings inspired by ancient Vietnamese culture. Notably, Thuong’s very first abstract paintings, which have been in the making for years, will make their debut at this show.

Also on display will be Nguyen Van Trinh’s series “Biosphere”, a showcase of the artist’s creativity shone in both concept and material (silk combined with giang paper). Trinh has created a floating multi-dimensional biosphere as a habitat for exotic creatures. The combination of silk and giang paper produces layered effects for his artworks.

Painter Trieu Khac Tien and painter Vu Van Tich are popular for their lacquer paintings. Painter Tien is currently the sole doctor in lacquer art in Vietnam. He has been working with his students to standardize Vietnam’s lacquer painting techniques for the Vietnam University of Fine Arts, helping to expand the range of materials and ensure the durability of paintings on lacquer. As a painter, Tien meticulously and delicately crafts his art works, whose unmatched sophistication is hardly found elsewhere. Painter Tich, Tien’s student, finds it intriguing to capture the emotions and desires of a young man in paintings.

Painter Nguyen Quang Trung has been wholeheartedly keen on abstract art. He believes that what he has been doing is not meant to be discovering a new style yet digging into the abstract style in conformity with the contemporary flow. Trung notably utilizes the so-called “light confinement technique” to retain light in the painting amidst the interweaving of fluctuating brushstrokes and colors.

Painter Nguyen Dinh Son will introduce art lovers to his expressionist artworks that portray coastal and suburban life. The closeups in Son’s paintings demonstrate moments of infatuation, send his viewers a clear message that when they pay their due attention, a small detail can open up a colorful, vibrant world which never ceases to trigger their emotions.

The Muse Artspace, organizer of “Art is long, and time is fleeting”, is elated to shed light on varied materials (lacquer, silk, oil, and acrylic) and diversified art styles in a single exhibition. What bonds everything together is the curator’s space arrangement, thus taking viewers on a roller coaster of imagination and emotions.

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06:30 pm – 09 pm, Fri 22 Mar 2024
Á Space
Alley 59 Ngô Gia Tự, Long Biên, Hà Nội

From the organizer:

In meteorological terms, her arrival is a declaration to heaven, the earth and its people that the last wave of cold weather is here to bid farewell to spring. She came with moisture taking away the moldy atmosphere and several other unpleasant things. Sometimes Ms. Bân is a convention that is not so clear, we can be distracted because it depends on seeing the real cold. Ms. Bân can be invisible.

During Ms. Bân’s stay, there will be a small performance by a few artists. A Taiwanese performance artist talks about the relationship with the body as follows:

“Sometimes the body seems invisible, and through performance it becomes more visible?”

When I heard that sentence, I wanted to grab a pen and paper to write it down. It’s true that at the moment of a performance, something really happens. This happens more than what we notice with our eyes. I’m not sure it’s a luxury people talk about in terms of the uniqueness of a single artistic moment.

– Vũ Đức Toàn

Ms. Bân has arrived, a performance with
Yuan-Hsiang (Jiang)*
Đặng Thùy Anh
manman*
Dương Thanh Quang
Flinh
Vũ Đức Toàn
and some surprise appearances

*Yuan-Hsiang (Jiang) is a performance artist, the founder of live art group “The Post-Theatre” and the cultural movement group “Potestas Creative Workshop”. Member of live art workshop hosted by Seiji Shimoda & Boris Nieslony. Yuan-Hsiang’s works often focus on the contemporary phenomenon of the body, deconstruct space with action, intervene in the social scene etc. Recently, in 2022, his directing work “Shinying_Seagull” was nominated for the 21st Taishin Arts Awards.

*manman (Chao Chun-Man) is an artist of P.M.S, a group composed of 3 members. Its members each bring with them long-standing interests in various aspects of aesthetics, culture, politics, and other dimensions related to moving images and peripheral narratives. manman (Chao Man-Chun) is known for the embodiment of textual narratives through her body.

Ms. Bân H̵a̵s̵ ̵A̵r̵r̵i̵v̵e̵d̵ is an event within the framework of the MEANDER MAPS: HANOI program, a collaborative endeavor between OCAC and Nhà Sàn Collective, with ba-bau AIR and Á Space as partners. MEANDER MAPS: HANOI began in the Lunar New Year of 2023, starting with many tours of Taiwanese artists to Vietnam with their own observations and concerns about the environmental, cultural and social landscape. In spring 2024, this journey will be introduced to the public in different formats.

Open-Contemporary Art Center (OCAC) is an artist-run space founded in Banqiao in 2001. At the moment, OCAC’s headquarters is located in the old town of DaDaocheng, Taipei. Their tasks include curation, interdisciplinary exchange, art forum, study and publication. They look at this and attempt to dedicate themselves to create diverse forms of which the public interacts with contemporary art. Simultaneously, OCAC has established long-term collaborations with artists and groups in Taiwan and from Asia and Southeast Asia, aiming to create a more tightly interconnected yet open-ended “decentralized” network. In light of this spirit, OCAC launched MEANDER MAPS: HANOI, a project that was supported by the National Taiwan Foundation for Culture and the Arts.

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13 – 24 Mar 2024
Watch movies here

From British Council:

Dive into the world of LGBTQIA+ cinema from the comfort of your home and watch the films online for free from 13-24 March 2024.

In partnership with BFI Flare: London LGBTQIA+ Film Festival, we’re celebrating five stories from across the globe, in support of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, intersex and asexual rights.

Our tenth anniversary edition will showcase global LGBTQIA+ stories that resonate with strength and spirit, from the historic defiance of Compton’s 22 in San Francisco to the heartfelt journey of love and understanding in Halfway. This year’s selection, including Little One, Cursive, and The First Kiss, dives deep into themes of family, identity, and the universal quest for acceptance.

A decade of Five Films

Since we launched Five Films for Freedom ten years ago, this phenomenal global programme has enabled us to stand in unity and solidarity with LGBTQIA+ communities from around the world.

The annual online celebration of LGBTQIA+ stories from around the world has reached over 23 million people, watching in more than 200 countries and principalities.

Share the love

Join the global solidarity movement and watch the films online for free from 13-24 March. Watch and share with #FiveFilmsForFreedom.

Watch this year’s five films online for free at here

Little One
Directed by Clister Santos (Philippines – 9 mins)

A pregnant mother, unsure of how to raise a child, arranges an interview with her two gay dads but fate intervenes when her dad suffers a heart attack. Her dad reflects on their family’s history, captured on an old camcorder.

Cursive
Directed by Isabel Steubel Johnson (UK – 9 mins)

When a woman on the verge of a breakup gets help from a mysterious stranger to improve her handwriting, she finds the inner voice she longed for all along.

Halfway
Directed by Kumar Chheda (India – 14 mins)

A turbulent couple ends up at different entrances of Juhu Beach, forcing them to walk towards each other and meet halfway.

The First Kiss
Directed by Miguel Lafuente (Spain – 9 mins)

Today is a special day for Andi, he is going to Madrid to have his first date with a boy he’s met online.

Compton’s 22
Directed by Drew de Pinto (USA – 18 mins)

Three years prior to Stonewall, transgender sex workers and drag queens revolted against police violence at Compton’s Cafeteria in San Francisco’s Tenderloin district.

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