Exhibition 3 – “Skylines with Flying People 3”
Opening: Fri 18 Nov 2016, 6 pm
Exhibition: 19 Nov – 18 Dec 2016, Wed to Sun from 3 – 7 pm
Nha San Collective
From Nha San Collective:
Nhà Sàn Collective warmly invites you to the third exhibition of “Skylines with flying people 3”.
Reunification-1 Journey – Phụ Lục (The Appendix)
“Reunification-1 Journey” documents Phụ Lục’s voyage from Hà Nội to Sài Gòn on the TN1 (Reunification) train. Following a physically unchanged route and carrying with them as belongings significant and allegorical objects, the artist group passes through and collides with multiple complex times and spaces that are historically crucial in the story of Việt Nam’s struggle to reconcile its halves.
Border’s Other Dimensions – Nguyễn Trần Nam
“Border’s Other Dimensions” focuses on a specific set of events, places and times that played a crucial role in the (dis)formation of present day Việt Nam. Looking at a variety of territorial borders and the spatial, socio-political and psychological transformations, mutations and divisions created by them, the project offers an examination of the production of history and politics in Việt Nam.
Imagining Territories – Nguyễn Ban Ga
“Imagining Territories” is Ban Ga’s contemplation of his obscure fear for a potential sovereignty infringement. Traveling to Quảng Yên province, Việt Nam’s northern borders and the Lý Sơn islands, locations associated with Vietnam’s proud national defence tradition, the project is a journey of reflection during which the artist investigates various aspects of political frameworks that have shaped each and every Vietnamese.
Untitleds – Nguyễn Quốc Thành
“Untitleds” by Nguyễn Quốc Thành follows the development of the local contemporary art scene. The artist collects remnants left behind in different forms after exhibitions and art related events in both public and private spaces, and uses them to create new artwork. Throughout the duration of SKYLINES 3, this series will appear alongside other participating artists’ works at various venues, acting as both an intervention of and a catalyst for discussion between the art of the past and that of today.
ABOUT THE ARTISTS
Phụ Lục (The Appendix)
Founded in 2010 by six artists, the Hà Nội-based performance art group Phụ Lục is currently made up of four core members: Nguyễn Huy An, Vũ Đức Toàn, Nguyễn Song and Ngô Thành Bắc.
Using allegorical everyday objects as props, the group performs in a durational, repetitive and at times nonsensical manner in abstractly staged settings, in order to evoke social issues or address each member’s personal concerns. Phụ Lục has participated in various local and international performance art events such as Skylines with Flying People 2 in Hà Nội and performance art festivals in Korea and Singapore.
Nguyễn Trần Nam
Born in 1979, Nguyền Trần Nam is one of the second-wave contemporary artists in Hà Nội closely associated with Nhà Sàn Collective. Since graduating from the Việt Nam University of Fine Arts in 2003, Trần Nam has been producing a diverse body of multimedia work, which takes inspiration from his own experience coming from a working-class family, growing up in the countryside of Hưng Yên province and later migrating to the city to study painting. At times dark and at others playful and sarcastic, his work makes visible both past and present-day social, political and historical issues in Việt Nam, while highlighting individual tales of human relationships among people of different social groups.
Exhibitions of his work include Come to [what] end? (Sàn Art, HCMC, 2015), The Broken Chapters (Manzi Art Space, Hà Nội, 2014), Skylines With Flying People 2 (Japan Foundation, Hà Nội, 2012), Hinterland (Luggage Store Gallery, San Francisco, USA, 2012), Năm năm (Hà Nội, 2012), Gap (Nhà Sàn Studio, Hà Nội, 2010), Indefinitely (Ryllega Gallery, Hà Nội, 2008) etc.
Nguyễn Ban Ga
Born in 1979, Nguyễn Ban Ga studied at the Việt Nam University of Fine Arts and is now living and working in Hà Nội. Ban Ga is one of the founders of Hanoi Link – a collective of young video artists, and an active member of Nhà Sàn Collective. Ban Ga also works at Hà Nội DOCLAB – Centre of Documentary and Experimental film located at the Goethe Institut, where he teaches short courses on filmmaking.
Although video art is his primary medium, Ban Ga also works with painting and performance art to express his perspective on issues that contemporary Vietnamese society is facing. His current work explores the impact of political ideology and attempts to make sense of the influences that have been imposed on Việt Nam both organically as a result of occurrence like migration and globalisation and deliberately by policy making and political decisions.
Nguyễn Quốc Thành
Based in Hà Nội, Nguyễn Quốc Thành explores issues of queer aesthetics and activism through photography, writing, performance, installation, clothes making and organising art events. In 2013, he founded and organised Queer Forever! – an interdisciplinary platform for sharing love and knowledge on queerness and Vietnamese culture, which is the first queer art festival in Việt Nam. Queer Forever! collaborates with individuals, groups and organisations through a regular program of talks, film screenings and art exhibitions. Queer Forever! 2016 is scheduled to take place 16-18 September 2016 in Hà Nội and will feature a mini South East Asia queer film festival and a forum on queer expression in arts in South East Asia.
Quốc Thành is a founding member of Nhà Sàn Collective – an independent contemporary art collective in Hà Nội, and has participated in performance art festivals and exhibitions in Việt Nam, Japan and the US.
SKYLINES WITH FLYING PEOPLE 3
Skylines With Flying People 3 (hereafter SKYLINES 3) is an interdisciplinary art project set out to portray the landscape of contemporary Việt Nam through the lens of local artists who were born and have grown up in the period of Đổi Mới (the economic reform policy leading to Việt Nam’s ‘socialist-led market economy’).
Following the success of SKYLINES 1 (2010, London) and SKYLINES 2 (2012, Hà Nội), SKYLINES 3 was initiated in 2014 and takes as its starting point notions of ‘journeying’ and ‘border’. 14 artists, 6 curators, numerous scholars and various museums, institutes and education organisations are being brought together to collaborate. 11 sub-projects dealing with Việt Nam’s complicated history, fragmented culture and issues such as migration, exploitation of humans and nature, urbanisation and gender, have been realised across the country. Between October 2016 and January 2017, 6 solo, duo and group exhibitions will take place consecutively.
KNOWLEDGE EXCHANGE – a series of public seminars aiming to broaden the parameters of artistic practices by extending them to and having exchanges with the social and human sciences, is taking place between March and December 2016. Joining in this series are SKYLINE 3’s participating artists as well as scholars in the fields of history, literature, anthropology, archaeology and sociology from Vietnam, Hong Kong, Denmark, Germany and the US.
All exhibitions and seminars are being held in Hà Nội, Việt Nam at various venues.
SKYLINES 3 is inaugurated by Nhà Sàn Collective, a non-profit artist-run art space based in Hà Nội promoting contemporary and experimental creative practices.
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Knowledge Exchange Seminar – “Skylines with Flying People 3”: A Dialogue between Liam Kelley and Appendix Group
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