Censorship and licensing procedures for artworks or art events in Vietnam remain a dark horse. Intolerable territories, tragicomedy plays and rusted machineries – such images metaphorically make up the nowadays discourses on censorship, a system that always seems to be ridiculously ambiguous. Are there any alternative modes of speaking, or viewing censorship in Vietnam? In…
This essay is an edited excerpt from Hà Ninh Pham’s work-in-progress PhD dissertation titled Metaphysical Cartography for the Future. In this dissertation, he explores an imagined country called Country X, a place where “I feel a deep sense of belonging. The people of Country X come from different physical places and times, but we are…
This essay was transcribed from a talk by Đỗ Văn Hoàng, which took place on 19 August 2018 at Six Space, Hanoi as part of the British Council Vietnam project Heritage of Future Past. I. Film restoration, in a technical sense of the term, refers to the transferring of 35mm or 16mm film prints to…
Back in August 2008, the plan to organize an exhibition on Catholic culture at the Vietnam Museum of Ethnology (VME) in November was carefully considered and rescheduled for December of the same year. Near that time, the tension between the church and the city government of Hanoi over land disputes at 42 Nhà Chung (Hoàn…
The paper will begin with observations of linguistic changes as a re-examination of art historical discourse of the past 20 years. There were “foreign terms” emerging during the nascent period of contemporary art in Vietnam. Before 2000, “curator” was a “foreign term,” but it didn’t just appear out of nowhere. How was this “foreign term”…
* The English language is written at the bottom. ** 본 고는 2022년 8월 d/p에서 진행된 전시 ≪If I can’t dance, I don’t want to be a part of your revolution≫(기획 용선미)의 일환으로 쓰여진 글입니다. I. 원형 경로로 이동하려면 영어에서 ‘혁명revolution’이라는 단어가 처음 사용된 것은 14세기 후반으로 기록되어 있다. 고대 프랑스어 또는 후기 라틴어에서 유래한 이 용어는 처음에는 지구…
