From the organizer: The Artist as Activist Archivist: an art talk and discussion with Jacqueline Hoàng Nguyễn.

Six Space cordially invite you to the art talk and discussion with artist Jacqueline Hoàng Nguyễn. 

Over the last decades, archive has become an important theme for the practice of contemporary artists. In his 2004 essay “The Archival Impulse”, art historian Hal Foster has defined archival art as a genre that “make[s] historical information, often lost or displaced, physically present. To this end [archival artists] elaborate on the found image, object, and favor the installation format.” While the archival art could be in forms of projects with real archival materials or artworks using by artists or curators in constructing a narrative or making of an exhibition, Nguyễn proposed a form of counter-archives where she embraced alternative structures for vernacular images and micro-histories. Nguyễn’s practice questions classification, contested notions and form of representation in different cultural contexts and the knowledge production process. During the talk, Nguyễn will share about her works and hopes to tease out the role of the artist as of an activist archivist, which theorist Mark Wigley describes as “one who designs an archive whose purpose is to polemically rearrange the standard perception of the worlds outside [...] is to change the direction of thinking.”

For more information: http://www.jacquelinehoangnguyen.com/

The discussion is in English and Vietnamese.