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“For me, the spirit of cinema is sometimes haunting, and sometimes has the ability to transform, reincarnate into the next life.”¹
– Phan Thảo Nguyên
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The artist, photo by Ambroise Tezenas for Rolex Mentor and Protege Arts Initiatives.
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This issue features Phan Thảo Nguyên, a multimedia artist who uses painting, installation, video, and performance to depict historical events, narrative traditions, and minor gestures that challenge received ideas and social conventions.
Her video work Tropical Siesta (2017) imagines alternative futures by orchestrating a version of the present that could have been: contemporary Vietnam is a fully efficient agrarian society whose citizens are all child farmers living in [removed];
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The children draw stories from the History of the Kingdom of Tonkin (1651) by French Jesuit missionary Alexandre de Rhode and create make-believe games, reinterpreting and recreating their myths. They take naps as a form of emancipation and reinvention, as the lush landscape of rice paddies alludes to Vietnam’s cultural landscape during the dark period of Communism–an unwritten history, the amnesia of a people to which the innocence of the children [removed];
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Behind-the-scenes images, courtesy the artist.
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Myth in Motion
Video exhibition at Sa Sa Art Projects, Phnom Penh, through August 12
Tropical Siesta (2017) by Phan Thảo Nguyên is currently on view as part of Myth in Motion alongside works by Martha Atienza, Ana María Millán, Ana Vaz, and Connie Zheng. The exhibition focuses on moving image as an artistic form and strategic tool to animate stories and [removed];Sa Sa Art Projects is a Cambodian artist-run space dedicated to experimental and critical contemporary art [removed];
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Watch Myth in Motion (with Khmer subtitles) on [removed] now!
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Job Opportunity: Collection Fellow (remote)
Apply by September 15
Come work with us! We are offering a paid, six-month collection fellowship to an emerging curator or recent arts graduate based in the Asia Pacific. You will research artists from the region, and learn the inner workings of an international contemporary art collection.
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Kadist Programs around the World
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Now
through August 12, 2023
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Sa Sa Art Projects, Phnom Penh
Myth in Motion, video exhibition and public programs
through August 12, 2023
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Soon
October 6, 2023- February 4, 2024
KADIST San Francisco
de montañas submarinas el fuego hace islas [from the underwater mountains fire makes islands]
October 13, 2023- February 17, 2024
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