Art as Research: Microhistory as Method
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20 October 2022
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Talk with Pamela Nguyen Corey
This lecture by professor Pamela Nguyen Corey kicks off a series of public and educational programs in association with the Nguyen Art Foundation’s inaugural exhibition People, Victory and Life after the War.
The lecture provides a broad overview of developments in Ho Chi Minh City that were significant in the shaping of infrastructures, discourses, and practices of art that were considered distinctively “contemporary” in the late 1990s and more prominently in the first decade of the new millennium. This regional account includes the community of abstract painters that were often exhibited as the Group of 10, the programming of Blue Space Contemporary Arts Center, the initiatives and collaborations undertaken by returnee diasporic artists with local artists, and the ambitious exhibition project Saigon Open City. These activities contributed to the distinctive profile of Ho Chi Minh City not only as an artistic center within Vietnam (positioned alongside Hanoi), but also as a regional and global hub in the map of the contemporary art world.
This event is part of a series of public and education programs in association with People, Victory and Life after the War, an exhibition organized by Nguyen Art Foundation.