The Trail Inward – Week 4: Onirisme in Japanese art-house and experimental film: Shuji Terayama, Yuri Muraoka and Fuyuhiko Takata

Date and time: Friday June 21, 2024 @18:30-20:30 Location: Sàn Art Language: Japanese with English subtitles   Sàn Art is pleased to present ‘The trail inward: image-making, symbolism and memory in film’, a satellite screening programme created in tandem with our current exhibition ‘Humming at the End of A Dream’ by artist Nghia Dang. With a common interest in dissecting memory, dreamscapes and psychic phenomena as a way of extracting potent symbols and surreal images that haunt and define us, the selected films echo a kinship, methodology, and aesthetic universe...

Back-to-Back – Week 3

Opening: 20.04.2018  Exhibition on view until 21.04.2018 Location: San Art reading room 3F, 264 Nam Ky Khoi Nghia, District 3   A few memories of our past programme Back-to-Back: A Collaborative Series of Discursive Encounters that took place in April 2018. In week 3 of Back-to-Back, we looked at Relational Aesthetics and Participatory art. Our core reading included essays by Nicolas Bourriaud, Claire Bishop, Anthony Downey, Thomas J. Berghuis and Joan Kee. Participants were asked to contribute by bringing visual material and questions to fuel discussions. While we began the...

Back-to-Back – Week 2: Performance Art

Opening: 13.04.2018 Exhibition on view until 14.04.2018 Location: San Art reading room 3F, 264 Nam Ky Khoi Nghia, District 3   A few memories of our past programme Back-to-Back: A Collaborative Series of Discursive Encounters that took place in April 2018. In week 2 we delved into Performance Art, a complex and non-linear thematic that spans over centuries and geographical boundaries. So instead of trying to create an irrelevant chronology of performance, we decided to change things up! Our participants were paired up and asked to prepare a short presentation...

Back-to-Back – Week 1: Conceptual Art

Opening: 06.04.2018 @6:30pm Exhibition on view until 07.04.2018 Location: San Art reading room 3F, 264 Nam Ky Khoi Nghia, District 3   A few memories of our past programme Back-to-Back: A Collaborative Series of Discursive Encounters that took place in April 2018. Week 1 focused on Conceptual art, as we explored key texts written by Apinan Poshyananda, Joseph Kosuth, Pamela Corey, Elisabeth Schellekens and Joan Kee. While initially questioning the value of “ideas” in art, the cognitive importance of aesthetics and debating the relevance of essays originating from the West,...

Marie David

Marie David is a French art historian whose eclectic interests include experimental cinema, cabinets of curiosities, commemorative art and issues of gender in performance. After completing a Master’s degree in Art History at the Courtauld Institute of Art in London in 2014 she has worked as a research assistant at the Didier Aaron gallery in London and as co-curator and contributing author at the CAPC Museum of Contemporary Art in Bordeaux....