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...

entanglement on demolition debris 

  Date: 06.03, 06.06, 06.08 Location: Sàn Art & the east bank of the Saigon River   Sàn Art is delighted to introduce entanglement on demolition debris, a collaborative project with the Asian Film Archive (AFA), taking inspiration from 7 video essays reflecting on changing geological and socio-political landscapes in the Monograph 2023 program, initiated by AFA, and our journey along the Eastern bank of Saigon River.  Demolition debris is remnants of urban projects, and a place where temporality (temporally) pauses and life ceases to flourish if being approached from the...

Hum a Tune | A Lecture Performance

Hum a Tune – A Lecture Performance Date/Time: Sun, 3 Mar @ 2-4PM Location: Sàn Art Millenium Masteri, Units B.16 & B.17 132 Ben Van Don, Ward 6, District 4, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam Language: English & Vietnamese To understand the fascination in sound-making means dissecting the social history of the cacophony and the ‘noise’ makers (or the early forms of musical instruments) that have emerged from the particular relationship between humans and nature. Learning to create sounds is also learning to listen to them. To accompany the visual...

Everyone I know is sick: Screening Programme

Everyone I know is sick – Screening Programme Date/Time: Fri, 1 Dec @ 6-8PM Location: APSC Compound 35 Lily Road, 36 Thao Dien St. District 2, Thu Duc City, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam Language: English & Vietnamese Sàn Art is proud to partner with Visual AIDS and the Consulate General of the Kingdom of the Netherlands for Day With(out) Art 2023 by presenting “Everyone I Know Is Sick,” a programme of five videos generating connections between HIV and other forms of illness and disability.* The program features newly commissioned...

Participatory Performance with Ly Hoàng Ly

Participatory performance with Ly Hoang Ly Date/Time: Tues, 28 Nov @ 7AM-10AM Location: Sàn Art Millenium Masteri, Units B.16 & B.17 132 Ben Van Don, Ward 6, District 4, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam Language: Vietnamese Sàn Art invited our colleagues and audiences to participate in a performance with artist Ly Hoang Ly on Tuesday, November 28. As an open-ended conclusion to her open studio, the artist and participants walked together, opened up and carried on stories about the aesthetic and social values of performance art, about the possibilities of...