Attention Artists, Writers, Poets, Musicians

Open call To Phong Bui’s May 2011 Social Sculpture
Deadline: Tue 12 Apr 2011

From San Art:
San Art would like to invite visual artists, painters, sculptors, photographers, performance artists, but also poets, writers and musicians to submit two works to Phong Bui to be selected by Tuesday 12 April. Please send images and details over email to Vo Quynh Hoa at San Art: [email protected].

For more information about Phong Bui and the project, see below:
Who is Phong Bui?
Born in Hue in 1964, Phong Bui is an artist, writer, teacher, publisher and independent curator based in New York, USA. He is currently curatorial advisor for P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, Museum of Modern Art affiliate, New York, and editor and publisher of the monthly journal ‘The Brooklyn Rail’. He possesses an extensive exhibition history across the USA and Italy and is the recipient of over 10 prestigious international art awards.

Artist statement:

My life as an artist has been an adventure ever since I left Vietnam 31 years ago. And one of the most adventurous and rewarding aspects of what and why I became an artist, who is also a publisher/ editor/ curator/writer and teacher, has stemmed from the idea of a community that is based on a certain larger and governing intellectual premise. And this is a result of a life long desire to break free from the political/social constraints, as well as the personal assumptions due to the predisposed prejudices from particular upbringings.

Like Joseph Beuys before me, I’m as equally invested in his idea of “social sculpture,” which is similarly motivated by the utopian belief in the potential of art to transform society. Thereby upon the invitation of San Art I thought of nothing else but my dreaming of a social organism as a work of art that could perhaps manifest as a token of my homage to the community of creative individuals in my very first trip to Vietnam since 1980.