curators around the world, will be launched by Independent Curators
International (ICI) on Sept.23 and is expected to attract audiences in
Hanoi, Hue and HCM City.
Each of the curators were
invited to choose one work from an artist they think is important for
audiences from around the world to experience. The resulting video
selections are divided into four parts that will play over the period of
one year.
The selections will also be presented
simultaneously in an increasing number of venues world wide. The
project, which was initiated by ICI in New York , has made its way to
Vietnam thanks to San Art, the country's most active independent art
space.
Project 35 celebrates ICI's 35-year life span
as an organisation that connects emerging and established curators,
artists and institutions, and fosters the building of international
networks.
The exhibition opens with videos focusing on
wide-ranging and controversial subject matter, including the uprisings
and protests in post-colonial South Africa , the urban roads of
modern-day HCM City , and the crime-filled streets of Bogota ,
Colombia .
Screenings are free and the first four
screenings will take place simultaneously in Hanoi 's Goethe Institute,
HCM City 's Cafe Cao Minh and Hue 's New Arts Space beginning at
6.30pm on Sept. 22.
The first session offers nine
works, including the works of Vietnamse artists Tuan Andrew Nguyen and
Ha 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 Art
director Zoe Butt.
Other artists were selected by the
director of Objectif Exhibitions, Mai Abu El Dahab; the chief curator of
the Mori Art Musuem in Tokyo, Mami Kataoka; an adjunct curator at the
University of California Berkeley Art Museum and the Pacific Film
Archive, Constance Lewallen; the artistic director of Philagrafika 2010,
Jose Roca and senior lecturer and head of the Fine Arts Studio Practice
in the Department of Visual Arts at the University of Stellenbosch,
South Africa, Kathryn Smith.
The selected works will
demonstrate the diversity of content and style that the single-channel
video can captures, including You Tube-style narrative to documentary
format to clay-mation to digital animation. The videos show a variety of
approaches from creating performance installations to reformatting a
Walt Disney classic.
The project has already been
screened in Albania , Mexico , Sweden and the US among others,
and will continue to expand as more venues and chapters in the video
series emerge. The project is expected to screen in 19 countries over
the course of 2010 and 2011./.
