Hanoi Future Art Space, Vietnam
September 4-18 2009
Exhibition Statement: We came, we saw, we met and we reacted – Song Hong became the place that embraced all of our thoughts and interests and created our contextual frame. We researched the area by boat and by feet and as we moved through the landscape, new thoughts and discussions appeared. Our conceptual starting point wanted to show our different perspectives on the Red River – our gaze as visitors and artist coming from a Westernized tradition combined with the gaze of the local Hanoians and artists educated in Vietnam. Trough various attempts of crossing the cultural boundaries within the group and within the different encounters in the process, we became aware of our own positions and their absurdities and inherent “impossibilities”. Is it possible that the methods we, as Western artists, bring to Hanoi, do not apply here? What does it take to cross the cultural boundaries that divide our understandings of a place and the people living there? What new thoughts and actions need to be created for future encounters and how can those be produced? It is our hope that the works existing in this exhibition will be a part of this continuous dialogue and hopefully will include the visitors in this show.
Artists: Pham Ngoc Duong (VN), Le Huy Hoang (VN), TSC Tempest (AUS), Daniel Svarre (DK), Ursula Nistrup (DK), KarolineH. Larsen (DK), Henrik L. Jørgensen (DK), Bettina Camilla Vestergaard (DK)
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SONG HONG Videostills
SONG HONG Installation view
Pham Ngoc Duong Le Huy Hoang
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