A visit from Tinkle Painting Arts Center to People, Victory and Life after the War
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April 2021
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Art tour with Hung Duong
An appendix and an index work like partners. The appendix extends – by providing extra information, while the index directs – by providing clues. Both are needed to navigate a text, a book, a neighborhood, a thought, an installation.
Initiated by Hung Duong, this tour is intended as an index for the exhibition Phụ Lục, How Are You?, within Phụ Lục Project curated by Van Do, and is currently on display at Nguyễn Art Foundation. It aims to prompt the participants’ imagination through a curated selection of words and poems that Hung has drawn from his personal engagement with the exhibition’s works. Co-led by Hung and the participants, the tour walked us through a garden of absent songs and present shadows, where seeds germinate sheepishly while house plants wilt, where memories of inner perturbation unfurl into withered vines and exiled herbs.
In the tour, participants got a chance to trace the remnants of Phụ Lục’s practice through the objects present/hidden in the exhibition and their unspoken dreams – while sharing words that churn the gears of our mind – before exploring an onsite and ongoing archive of Phụ Lục’s 15-year endeavor, compiled and organized by curator Van Do.