Students at EMASI interpret themes from the People, Victory and life After the War exhibition
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April 2021
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Art tour with Nhi Duong
Visitors who came to the art tour of In Stranger Lands: Cocoa’s Journeys to Asia at EMASI Nam Long were led by Nhi Duong through the many (in)tangible touchpoints that explore the history of colonialism; labour exploitation; and the separation of culture and nature, the human and non-human, that persist to this day.
Stemming from the unique viewpoints of established artists based in Asia, including Cyril Delettre, Ravi Agarwal, Pan Lu & Bo Wang, Erika Tan, Timoteus Anggawan Kusno, Antariksa, Robert Zhao Renhui and Zheng Mahler – practitioners with strong connections to their local histories – the works commissioned for this exhibition expand beyond their physical form to invite interaction through all of our senses – embodied entry points to the artists’ fieldwork and research-based methods. There, cocoa – a product so ubiquitous, bittersweet, and in our time taken for granted – is dissected and reimagined in all its complexity.
This event is part of a series of public and education programs in association with In Stranger Lands: Cocoa’s Journeys to Asia, an exhibition organized by Nguyen Art Foundation.