Project 35, an international exhibition of video works selected by 35curators around the world, will be launched by Independent CuratorsInternational (ICI) on Sept.23 and is expected to attract audiences inHanoi, Hue and HCM City.
Each of the curators wereinvited to choose one work from an artist they think is important foraudiences from around the world to experience. The resulting videoselections are divided into four parts that will play over the period ofone year.
The selections will also be presentedsimultaneously in an increasing number of venues world wide. Theproject, which was initiated by ICI in New York , has made its way toVietnam thanks to San Art, the country's most active independent artspace.
Project 35 celebrates ICI's 35-year life spanas an organisation that connects emerging and established curators,artists and institutions, and fosters the building of internationalnetworks.
The exhibition opens with videos focusing onwide-ranging and controversial subject matter, including the uprisingsand protests in post-colonial South Africa , the urban roads ofmodern-day HCM City , and the crime-filled streets of Bogota ,Colombia .
Screenings are free and the first fourscreenings will take place simultaneously in Hanoi 's Goethe Institute,HCM City 's Cafe Cao Minh and Hue 's New Arts Space beginning at6.30pm on Sept. 22.
The first session offers nineworks, including the works of Vietnamse artists Tuan Andrew Nguyen andHa Thuc Phu Nam , both of whom currently live and work in HCM City. The two artists were selected by HCM City-based curator and San Artdirector Zoe Butt.
Other artists were selected by thedirector of Objectif Exhibitions, Mai Abu El Dahab; the chief curator ofthe Mori Art Musuem in Tokyo, Mami Kataoka; an adjunct curator at theUniversity of California Berkeley Art Museum and the Pacific FilmArchive, Constance Lewallen; the artistic director of Philagrafika 2010,Jose Roca and senior lecturer and head of the Fine Arts Studio Practicein the Department of Visual Arts at the University of Stellenbosch,South Africa, Kathryn Smith.
The selected works willdemonstrate the diversity of content and style that the single-channelvideo can captures, including You Tube-style narrative to documentaryformat to clay-mation to digital animation. The videos show a variety ofapproaches from creating performance installations to reformatting aWalt Disney classic.
The project has already beenscreened in Albania , Mexico , Sweden and the US among others,and will continue to expand as more venues and chapters in the videoseries emerge. The project is expected to screen in 19 countries overthe course of 2010 and 2011./.
Each of the curators wereinvited to choose one work from an artist they think is important foraudiences from around the world to experience. The resulting videoselections are divided into four parts that will play over the period ofone year.
The selections will also be presentedsimultaneously in an increasing number of venues world wide. Theproject, which was initiated by ICI in New York , has made its way toVietnam thanks to San Art, the country's most active independent artspace.
Project 35 celebrates ICI's 35-year life spanas an organisation that connects emerging and established curators,artists and institutions, and fosters the building of internationalnetworks.
The exhibition opens with videos focusing onwide-ranging and controversial subject matter, including the uprisingsand protests in post-colonial South Africa , the urban roads ofmodern-day HCM City , and the crime-filled streets of Bogota ,Colombia .
Screenings are free and the first fourscreenings will take place simultaneously in Hanoi 's Goethe Institute,HCM City 's Cafe Cao Minh and Hue 's New Arts Space beginning at6.30pm on Sept. 22.
The first session offers nineworks, including the works of Vietnamse artists Tuan Andrew Nguyen andHa Thuc Phu Nam , both of whom currently live and work in HCM City. The two artists were selected by HCM City-based curator and San Artdirector Zoe Butt.
Other artists were selected by thedirector of Objectif Exhibitions, Mai Abu El Dahab; the chief curator ofthe Mori Art Musuem in Tokyo, Mami Kataoka; an adjunct curator at theUniversity of California Berkeley Art Museum and the Pacific FilmArchive, Constance Lewallen; the artistic director of Philagrafika 2010,Jose Roca and senior lecturer and head of the Fine Arts Studio Practicein the Department of Visual Arts at the University of Stellenbosch,South Africa, Kathryn Smith.
The selected works willdemonstrate the diversity of content and style that the single-channelvideo can captures, including You Tube-style narrative to documentaryformat to clay-mation to digital animation. The videos show a variety ofapproaches from creating performance installations to reformatting aWalt Disney classic.
The project has already beenscreened in Albania , Mexico , Sweden and the US among others,and will continue to expand as more venues and chapters in the videoseries emerge. The project is expected to screen in 19 countries overthe course of 2010 and 2011./.
