Imaging Rhizome
2023
Role: Co-curator
2023
Role: Co-curator
Imaging Rhizome is a showcase of 18 photographic publications made by Vietnamese artists.
This collection of 18 works at first glance talk about our roots: family, living environment, and identities, as the foundation for figuring out who we are and how our lives are. The makings of these publications have allowed practitioners to reconstruct the relationships between spheres of life. Imaging Rhizome orients towards a non-hierarchical, map-like system of thinking, similar to rhizomatic plant roots. The audience can enter at any point, and freely associate to navigate through the series/clusters of images. From there, we can start dialogues to explore the roots of our shared concerns.
These publications have had different lives: some have been self-published in limited editions, while others are dummy books in progress, or have been experiments. Studio 3Năm came to know these publications though the relations among the community of photographers in Vietnam, and we hope to continue learning and sharing about Vietnamese photobook making.
Saigon: 24-27 March 2023
Tokyo: April-May 2023
Sponsored by RABA
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This collection of 18 works at first glance talk about our roots: family, living environment, and identities, as the foundation for figuring out who we are and how our lives are. The makings of these publications have allowed practitioners to reconstruct the relationships between spheres of life. Imaging Rhizome orients towards a non-hierarchical, map-like system of thinking, similar to rhizomatic plant roots. The audience can enter at any point, and freely associate to navigate through the series/clusters of images. From there, we can start dialogues to explore the roots of our shared concerns.
These publications have had different lives: some have been self-published in limited editions, while others are dummy books in progress, or have been experiments. Studio 3Năm came to know these publications though the relations among the community of photographers in Vietnam, and we hope to continue learning and sharing about Vietnamese photobook making.
Saigon: 24-27 March 2023
Tokyo: April-May 2023
Sponsored by RABA
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Ghost of time goneby
2021-2022
Role: Organizer
2021-2022
Role: Organizer
Around July 2021, when the pandemic lockdown in Vietnam became increasingly strict, Beautiful Noise Collective and Invisible Space initiated this collective journaling project with the aim to converse with each other, and to archive what was happening around us. The hosts - Lien Pham and Kai Ng - chose a prompt each week for the 23 participants to respond to via making new work, writing, or any other form of experimentation. Using Google Slides to store the images, text, videos and more, we pass this document around every 24 hours. For nearly two months, everyone stayed still, only the diary pages were constantly in flux.
This zine is a sequence of selected pages from the project as an effort to share, dialogue and remember what we've been through, together.
140 pages
23 participants
More information here
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This zine is a sequence of selected pages from the project as an effort to share, dialogue and remember what we've been through, together.
140 pages
23 participants
More information here
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Strange archive #1 (for love)
2021
Role: Artist
2021
Role: Artist
With Strange Archive #1 (For Love), Beautiful Noise Collective (BNC) seeks to exhibit records of love, loss, and hope in our time as documented through crowdsourced stories and images. These are pieces of contemporaneous records that have been created to express one's own experience and feeling towards what it means to love, to unlove, and to define love. The stories and images look into ourselves, out onto our relationships, and what we see in our communities and world. We give these pieces of memory and emotion a physical form that, like love, can be both abstract and specific, perfect and patched, stable and fragile. We invite the audience to walk among our installation, pick up the hearts, and see the many stories of love in our time.
The installation is partly inspired by Strange Fruit (1992-1997) by artist Zoe Leonard, dedicated to artist David Wojnarowicz who died of AIDS in 1992.
Stories crowd-sourced by The Lab Saigon, images sourced from BNC’s friends: Lien Pham, An Thien Tran, Tung Dinh, Duong Nguyen, Dat Tien Vu, Dat Vinh Tran, Tran Phuong Vu, Dang Nguyen Khoi, Mat Bet, Kai Ng, Alicia Oanh Le, Tran Thu Hang, Duc Viet.
Commissioned for Museum of Heartbreak exhibition, part of a wider campaign (yeumoikho.com) to eliminate HIV-related stigma and promote access to HIV prevention and treatment in Vietnam.
Medium: Heart-shaped boxes made from collages of text and images transferred onto transparent tape
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The installation is partly inspired by Strange Fruit (1992-1997) by artist Zoe Leonard, dedicated to artist David Wojnarowicz who died of AIDS in 1992.
Stories crowd-sourced by The Lab Saigon, images sourced from BNC’s friends: Lien Pham, An Thien Tran, Tung Dinh, Duong Nguyen, Dat Tien Vu, Dat Vinh Tran, Tran Phuong Vu, Dang Nguyen Khoi, Mat Bet, Kai Ng, Alicia Oanh Le, Tran Thu Hang, Duc Viet.
Commissioned for Museum of Heartbreak exhibition, part of a wider campaign (yeumoikho.com) to eliminate HIV-related stigma and promote access to HIV prevention and treatment in Vietnam.
Medium: Heart-shaped boxes made from collages of text and images transferred onto transparent tape
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