Mekong Platform, Milan Image Art & Design fair 2014, Singapore: 24-26 October, 2014
Being the longest river in Southeast Asia, the Mekong rises in China, crossing and bordering Myanmar, Laos, Thailand, Cambodia and Vietnam. For centuries these populations have depended on the river and its tributaries for food, water and transport, shaping their life and culture along its magnificent watercourse. Worldwide the Mekong is known for its arresting landscapes. From deserts to flourishing vegetation, the river offers life and death to its inhabitants. At the same time, the rapid transformation of its indigenous communities towards global societies and invasive human intervention is jeopardizing the river’s reach cultural identity. The artists and works featured in WATER/ Life Line – Photography and Video Art from Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar, Thailand and Vietnam bring together diverse stories from the Mekong countries about their relationship with water: how the river pervades their lives, its impact on the surrounding landscape and how this rapidly transforming region adapts to global expectations. By featuring an array of telling images and personal stories of the community living on the riverbanks, the viewer is immersed in the spectacle of nature, at times indulgent while at other times unforgiving.
Featured Artists Anida Yoeu Ali, Lim Sokchanlina (Cambodia) Bounpaul Phothyzan (Laos) Nge Lay (Myanmar) Piyatat Hemmatat, Supaparinya Sutthirat (Thailand) Thao Nguyen Phan (Vietnam)
Unconditional Belief, San Art, Ho Chi Minh City, 27 February - 2 May, 2014
Exhibition date: 27 February – 2 May 2014
Venue: Sàn Art 3 Me Linh, Binh Thanh Dist, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
Artist talk: The value of artistic labor as a laboratory of ideas
Thursday, 24 April, 2014 at 6 pm at San Art
See more at: http://san-art.org/exhibition/unconditional-belief/
Right Fiction, San Art, Ho Chi Minh City, 7 November - 24 January, 2014
Group Exhibition
Where: Sàn Art, 3 Me Linh Street, District Binh Thanh, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
When: 7th November 2013 to 24th January 2014.
San Art is pleased to present ‘Right Fiction’ – a group exhibition featuring painting, photography, installation and video by artists Nguyen Hong Ngoc and Phan Thao Nguyen that concludes their time with ‘San Art Laboratory: Session Three’.
Concept, Context and Contestation, Art and the Collective in South East Asia, Bangkok Art and Culture center (BACC), Thailand
13 December 2013 – 2 March 2014
Opening reception on Thursday 12 December 2013, 6:30 pm.
Press Tour 4:00 pm.
Live Performances by Artists from 7:30 pm.
Main Gallery, 8th floor
BACC exhibition Concept Context Contestation: art and the collective in Southeast Asia
A new exhibition about conceptual approaches to making art for, with, and about the collective and collective issues in Southeast Asia.
Celebrating ASEAN integration commencing in 2015, BACC is proudly presenting a new and specially BACC-commissioned exhibition of regional contemporary visual art, the biggest ever Southeast Asian contemporary art show produced in Thailand Concept Context Contestation: art and the collective in Southeast Asia.
With nearly 50 artworks by over 40 celebrated internationally-known Southeast Asian artists of three generations from eight countries; Thailand Sutee Kunavichayanont, Vasan Sitthiket, Manit Sriwanichpoom and new generation artists; Indonesia FX Harsono, Eko Nugroho and Daging Tumbuh and Popok Tri Wahyudi; Philippines Imelda Cajipe Endaya and Alwin Reamillo; Vietnam Vu Dan Tan; Malaysia Simryn Gill and Wong Hoy Cheong; Singapore Amanda Heng and Lee Wen; Burma and Cambodia, the show will chart one of regional contemporary art’s most important threads, locally-rooted conceptual thinking used to engage in ideas about and for the collective. It will investigate the close connection between conceptual approaches and social ideologies in Southeast Asian contemporary art of the last four decades and will offer art historical insights into our own regional visual culture of today. The exhibition will defend the idea that conceptual approaches used in contemporary art of Southeast Asia are not necessarily imported but rather can find their source in home culture.
Concept Context Contestation: art and the collective in Southeast Asia will be documented by a fully-illustrated ten-essay research catalogue by the curators and other specialists and will also feature a weekend of free public educational talks and panel discussions by experts in the field. The show will present media of all types including interactive forms designed to stimulate public engagement and create dynamic dialogue along the journey. Thus repeated visits can yield a different experience each time, so fully illustrating the way in which Southeast Asian contemporary art and life mesh.