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20/2/2014

Disrupted Choreographies

Carre' d'Art Musee d'art contemporain, Nimes

Artists: Lena Bui, Tiffany Chung, Dinh Q Le, Jun Nguyen-Hatsushiba, Nguyen Huy An, Nguyen Thai Tuan, Nguyen Trinh Thi and 'The Propeller Group'

co-curated by Zoe Butt (Executive Director and Curator, San Art, Ho Chi Minh City) and Jean-Marc Prevost (Director, Carré d’Art, Nimes).

Disrupted Choreographies weaves eight contemporary voices from Vietnam who propose alternate narratives between colonial histories, collective behavior, systems of class and the crumbling of ideological thought.

This exhibition challenges the relationship between Vietnam and the ‘global’ stage, illustrating an artistic community critical of the historical consciousness that often stands in for its name (ie. the guilt of war; the tourist getaway; the nostalgic colonial).

Vietnam is a nation with a significant conscience that has appeared in more televised media than any other global conflict in the 20th century, its residual frame is compressed and repeated to ease the guilt of what is locally called the 'American War.' Vietnam has long been a theatrical stage for the highly choreographed movement of world politics. This is a community at once cautious and embracive of what is foreign, believing in the opportunity of tomorrow as a residual time, as potential for renewal.

The artists in this exhibition juxtapose historical event and social phenomena; relevant to the diasporic contexts they conceptually and physically traverse. Their dance in the residual space of failing ideologies, post-industrialized communities, heterotopias and the ramification of representation are careful artistic choreographies that they understand are in cyclical movement, ie. in repeat.

Their conceptual choreographies are habitual in the work of Lena Bui and Nguyen Huy An (eg. the study of human behavior or the collective as a strategy of survival); displaced in the work of Dinh Q Le and Jun Nguyen Hatsushiba (eg. the political asylum seeker, the catalogued document, the spiritually disillusioned); absent in the work of Nguyen Thai Tuan and Nguyen Trinh Thi (eg. the symbolic marking of what once stood, or what once took place); and causal in the work of The Propeller Group and Tiffany Chung (eg. the repercussion, the spin-off, the consequence).

Event organized in the France-Vietnam Year, Nam Viet Nam Phap 2013-2014 www.anneefrancevietnam.com

Image: The Propeller Group

Press contact:
Delphine Verrières-Gaultier Tel: 04 66763577 Fax: 04 66763585 communication@carreartmusee.com

Carré d'Art–Musée d'art contemporain
Place de la Maison Carrée 30000 Nîmes France
Open daily except monday, from 10 am to 6pm
Admission to the exhibition
Individuals Full price: € 5; Reduced rate: € 3.70
Groups Reduced rate: € 3.70
Admission free for ages under 26, persons with reduced mobility and the person accompanying them, and for all on the first Sunday of the month

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