• INTRO
    • Calendar
    • Archive
  • PROJECTS
    • Day by Day
    • Film No. 2
    • Across the Forest
    • Reunification-1 Journey
    • Border’s Other Dimensions
    • Imagining Territories
    • The Man with the Red Nails
    • Borderless
    • Untitleds
    • In One’s Breath – Nothing Stands Still
    • The Last Ride
  • EXHIBITIONS
    • Day by day – Film No.2
    • Across the forest
    • Reunification-1 Journey – Borders’ Other Dimensions – Imagining Territories – Untitleds
    • Borderless – The man with the red nails
    • In one’s breath – Nothing stands still
    • The last ride
  • SEMINARS
    • Aestheticization of Bio-politics
    • Visualizing Vietnam: From the Past to the Present
    • Shifts in Vietnamese Conception of Chinese culture
    • Queer narrative & Queer criticism: Possibilities & Challenges
    • Stories of Living Spaces
    • Tây Nguyên: Lifeworld or Heritage?
    • Dressing up, Dressing down
  • FLYING PEOPLE
    • Artists
    • Curators
    • Scholars
  • SUPPORTS
  • Language
    • English English
    • Tiếng Việt Tiếng Việt
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Introduction

Skylines With Flying People 3 (hereafter SKYLINES 3) is an interdisciplinary art project showcasing a sample of the diversity of artistic practices among young artists in Việt Nam today.

Following the success of SKYLINES 1 (2010, London) and SKYLINES 2 (2012, Hà Nội), SKYLINES 3 was initiated in 2014 and takes as its starting point notions of "journeying" and "border". The project’s title references a poem by Trần Dần – a key figure in Vietnamese avant-garde poetry - about a place with no room for imagination and freedom, written in 1988, the early years of Đổi Mới (the economic reform policy leading to Việt Nam’s ‘socialist-led market economy’):

“I cry 
for skylines which do not have flying people
cry again 
for flying people who do not have skylines”

SKYLINES 3 commences with its participating artists "flying out" of their comfort zones to go on journeys that reflect on and explore issues regarding the country's complicated history, fragmented culture, migration, exploitation of humans and nature, urbanisation, gender norms, etc.

Central to the project is an attempt to foster connections and collaborations between contemporary art and other disciplines. SKYLINES 3 brings together artists and experts and scholars from different branches of social & human sciences. Through a process of dialogue, different modes and methods of knowledge production are unveiled and exchanged, which opens up new possibilities for working and creating.

The final outcome is expected to portray the landscape of contemporary Việt Nam through the lens of artists who were born and have grown up in the period of Đổi Mới. 11 sub-projects have been realised across the country and 6 solo, duo and group exhibitions will take place consecutively between October 2016 and January 2017 at different locations in Hà Nội: the Japan Foundation, Nhà Sàn Collective, MAM-Art Projects by CUC Gallery, the Goethe Institut and Heritage Space.

Within the framework of the project, KNOWLEDGE EXCHANGE - a series of public seminars given by artists and scholars of history, literature, anthropology, archaeology and sociology from Việt Nam, Hong Kong, Denmark, Germany and the US - is taking place between March and December 2016. Understanding that different systems of knowledge can simultaneously relate them to and separate them from each other, KNOWLEDGE EXCHANGE offers insight into both creatives’ and academics’ thought processes and work approaches, revealing their similarities as well as their differences.

SKYLINES 3 is inaugurated by Nhà Sàn Collective, a non-profit artist-run art space based in Hà Nội promoting contemporary and experimental creative practices.

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Projects

Nguyễn Thị Thanh Mai - Day by Day

Tạ Minh Đức - Film No. 2

Trương Công Tùng - Across the Forest

Phụ Lục - Reunification-1 Journey

Nguyễn Trần Nam - Border's Other Dimensions

Nguyễn Ban Ga - Imagining Territories

Trương Minh Quý - The Man with the Red Nails

Lêna Bùi - Borderless

Nguyễn Quốc Thành - Untitleds

Tuấn Mami - In One's Breath - Nothing Stands Still

Nguyễn Phương Linh - The Last Ride

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Knowledge Exchange

SKYLINES 3 expands the scope of the previous two SKYLINE editions by broadening the parameters of artistic practice, extending to the fields of social and human sciences and furthering opportunities of possible collaborations by working with national and international museums, institutes and education organisations. The outcome of these partnerships is KNOWLEDGE EXCHANGE – a seminar series fostering multilateral dialogues between the creative, the academic and the public.

Over two millenniums ago, Plato defined knowledge as “nothing other than perception” (Plato, 369 BC. Theaetetus, D1:151d8-e4). Taking this statement as its foundation, KNOWLEDGE EXCHANGE is looking to create a space for dialogue and collaboration across different disciplines and communities, so as to generate new and diverse methods of knowledge-production and –circulation. Additionally, KNOWLEDGE EXCHANGE aspires to promote the role of contemporary art in Vietnamese society today.

KNOWLEDGE EXCHANGE is taking place between March and December 2016. Joining in this series are SKYLINE 3’s participating artists as well as scholars in the fields of history, literature, anthropology, archaeology and sociology from Việt Nam, Hong Kong, Denmark, Germany and the US.

Yang Jing & Tuấn Mami - Aestheticization of Bio-politics

Liam Kelly & Phụ Lục - Visualizing Vietnam: From the Past to the Present

Trần Quang Đức & Nguyễn Ban Ga - Shifts in Vietnamese Conception of Chinese culture

Trần Ngọc Hiếu & Trương Minh Quý - Queer narrative & Queer criticism: Possibilities & Challenges

Bùi Kim Đĩnh, Arlette Quỳnh-Anh Trần, Nguyễn Thị Thanh Mai & Tạ Minh Đức - Stories of Living Spaces

Oscar Salemink, Trương Công Tùng & Nguyễn Phương Linh - Tây Nguyên: Lifeworld or Heritage?

Kirsten Endres & Lêna Bùi - Dressing up, Dressing down

Andrea Lauser & Nguyễn Quốc Thành - The Art of Ethnography – the Artist as Ethnographer?

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Flying People

Artists

Nguyễn Thị Thanh Mai


Based in Huế, uses a variety of media including photography & video to question identity

Tạ Minh Đức


Video artist & filmmaker, explores notions of human existence, condition & relationships

Trương Công Tùng


Born in Đắk Lắk & lives in HCMC, interested in experimental ways of form making

The Appendix


Performance art group from Hà Nội, fuses elements of absurdity, theatre & everyday life

Nguyễn Trần Nam


Works across installation, text & painting to explore past & present-day Vietnamese histories

Nguyễn Ban Ga


Drawn to sociopolitical & cultural issues that contemporary Việt Nam is facing

Lêna Bùi


Born in Đã Nẵng & lives in HCMC, studies human behaviour & issues of gender stereotypes

Trương Minh Quý


Based in HCMC, concerned with human existence in the contexts of the urban & non-urban

Nguyễn Quốc Thành


Visual artist & founder of Queer Forever!, explores issues of queer aesthetics & activism

Nguyễn Phương Linh


Co-founder Nhà Sàn Collective, intrigued by alternative historical perspectives of Việt Nam

Tuấn Mami


Hà Nội-based multimedia artist, questions the state of art & human in today's society


Curators

Bùi Kim Đĩnh


Researcher, curator & co-founder of Studio Thọ - contemporary art gallery

Lê Thuận Uyên


Independent UK-trained curator, collaborator of Nhà Sàn Collective

Bill Nguyễn


Artist & curator, co-founder Manzi Art Space & The Anti-Gallery Gallery

Trương Quế Chi


Active in both the visual art & cinema scene as an artist, curator & educator


Guest curators

Arlette Quỳnh-Anh Trần


Post Vidai director & curator, member of Art Labor collective

Roger Nelson


Art historian & curator, co-founding co-editor SOUTHEAST OF NOW


Scholars

Yang Jing


PhD candidate of the Graduate Programme for Transcultural Studies of Heidelberg University

Liam Kelley


Associate Professor of History at University of Hawaii at Manoa, USA

Trần Quang Đức


Sino-Nôm researcher, studies Vietnamese ancient & medieval culture & history

Trần Ngọc Hiếu


Lecturer at the Hà Nội National University of Education, PhD Degree in Literary Theory

Oscar Salemink


Professor at University of Copenhagen, Denmark

Kirsten Endres


Head of Research Group at Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology, Germany

Andrea Lauser


Professor of Anthropology at Georg-August-University Göttingen, Germany

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Supports

Partners

Following the success of the previous two editions, SKYLINES 3 is partnering up with various national and international art spaces and cultural and academic institutions, including: Goethe Institut, Japan Foundation, MAM-Art Projects by CUC Gallery, Heritage Space, Hanoi Creative City, Manzi Art Space, Hanoi Grapevine, Queer Forever!, Hà Nội DOCLAB, Chula, MoT+++, Georg-August-University of Goettingen and the Exchange Project in Museology between Germany and Việt Nam (Mugovie) from the University of Applied Sciences Berlin.

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Supporters

SKYLINES 3 is honoured to receive generous funding and enthusiastic supports from organizations and individuals including: Danish Cultural Development and Exchange Fund (CDEF), Dutch Foundation Arts Collaboratory - co-founded by DOEN, Heinrich Böll Stiftung Southeast Asia, Foundation for Community Educational Media (FCEM), Abundance Foundation, Green Cities Fund, programmer Dr. Robin Wolff, Prof. Dr. Oliver Rump, Prof. Dr. Andrea Lauser, graphic designers Yoshi Nego, Lukas Zerbst, Nguyễn Anh Cường and Phan Ngọc Phương Chi, editor Fabiola Büchele, Ngân Nguyễn, Quyên Nguyễn, Nghĩa Đặng, the team at Nhà Sàn Collective including Hoàng Vũ Huyền Châu, Cầm Khánh Linh, Lê Tuấn Phi, Phùng Tiến Sơn and other volunteers, and artists, scholars and friends at home and abroad.

 

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Archive

- Landscape

- Parallel Public Space

- Tây Nguyên: Lifeworld or Heritage?

- Spaces, States and Microhistory

- Dressing Up, Dressing Down

- Between Heaven and Earth

- Press Release

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