Student workshop about curatorial practice
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December 2020
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– with Thai Ha and Nhat Q. Vo
In Rhyming Gestures, artworks dance. From the materials that make them up they take on rhythm. Hopping and rolling from ceiling to floor, they mimic and riff on the gestures of their makers, whose ritual of artmaking is, itself, dancing.
In this curatorial tour, Thái Hà and Nhat Q. Vo venture that artmaking, as in dance, does not manipulate materials towards the goal of producing objects. Through the works of Phan Thao Nguyen, Truong Cong Tung, Tran Luong, Le Hoang Bich Phuong, Nguyen Minh Thanh, Ngo Dinh Bao Chau, Nguyen Quang Huy, Tuan Andrew Nguyen and Nguyen Duc Phuong, Hà will explore how artworks retain their makers’ gestures and memories. Pouring out of the body of the artist-as-dancer, rhythm saturates the artworks so that they, too, dance as a way to exist in the world. Meanwhile, Nhat will guide viewers through a behind-the-scenes of exhibition making and design, or in other words, how to display artworks in a way that respects their visual rhythm and illustrates the curatorial thread that temporarily ties them together.
This event is part of a series of public and education programs in association with Rhyming Gestures, an exhibition organized by Nguyen Art Foundation.