May 2010
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KE // GAP at Nhasan Studio
Opening: Thur 20 May, 7 pm Exhibition: 20 – 23 May Nha San Duc
Nhasan studio is excited to present Nguyen Tran Nam’s site-specific video installation ‘Kẽ / Gap’, the second installment of our 2010 ‘EMERGING ARTIST PROGRAM’.
A Kẽ is a gap, a crack between closely spaced things, a peephole in a door. The word can apply to the microscopic – the delicate space between the veins on a leaf...
Yesterday (May 10, 2010), I made this little book of drawings. Just for fun. I will use it to practice vietnamese. Write little sentences explaining these queer little creatures. I gave out most of the photocopies I made of the little booklet yesterday. I gave one to the young man who helped me make the photocopies. He is going to write little sentences in english, and i will write sentences in...
Here is a little walk up the stairs in this little drawing experiment i did yesterday. it’s on the 7th floor of the almaz hotel. once one of hanoi’s biggest brothels, now the home to many foreigners, and artist studios…not entirely sure what i’m getting at here. have to think!
- drawing on the chalky wall with pencil is very nice feeling
- muon di xa, phai di tu tu ( if...
Mother goddess spirit medium.
on wednesday i drove with Bill (who is co-organizing the performance art event in august) on the motorbike a few kilometers outside of hanoi. a straight shot, through a wide street lined with different shops that recycle the detritus of the city. yards full of cast iron gates. a courtyard with small shreds of blue plastic spread from edge to edge. then take a...
Salt has power: humid and wet, crystallized and melted. We get our salt from the...
– Phuong Linh