The Philanthropic Museum http://thephilanthropicmuseum.org The Philanthropic Museum is the first online museum to offer the largest virtual collection of photographers and video artists from Southeast Asia. Sat, 12 May 2012 08:21:40 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 The Propeller Group http://thephilanthropicmuseum.org/artists/the-propeller-group/ http://thephilanthropicmuseum.org/artists/the-propeller-group/#comments Fri, 11 May 2012 04:35:33 +0000 Webmaster http://thephilanthropicmuseum.org/?post_type=artists&p=695 THE PROPELLER GROUP is an art collective based in Saigon and Los Angeles, comprised of Phunam, Matt Lucero and Tuan Andrew Nguyen. Read on →

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Living and working between Ho Chi Minh City, Viet Nam, and Los Angeles, CA, USA

PHU NAM
Born in 1974 in Saigon, Viet Nam
École des Beaux Arts Hanoi, Oil Painting Restoration, Hanoi, Viet Nam
Bronze Buddha sculpting and bronze casting, Chiang Mai, Thailand
Stone sculpting, Khmer arts restoration, Kun Ya apprenticeship, Bangkok, Thailand

MATT LUCERO
Born in 1976 in Upland, CA, USA
MFA, California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, CA, USA
BFA, University of California Riverside, Riverside, CA, USA

TUAN ANDREW NGUYEN
Born in 1976 in Saigon, Viet Nam
MFA, California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, CA, USA
BFA, Studio Art, with Minor in Digital Arts, University of California, Irvine, CA, USA

Selected Exhibitions / Screenings / Performances

2012
  • Six Lines of Flight, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA, USA (forthcoming, fall 2012)
  • Made in LA, Los Angeles Biennial, Armand Hammer Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA, USA (forthcoming, June 2012)
  • Static Friction, Galerie Quynh, Ho Chi Minh City, Viet Nam
  • Static Friction: Burning Rubber, Sàn Art, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
  • The Ungovernables, The New Museum, New York, NY, USA
2011
  • Video, An Art, A History 1965 – 2010, Singapore Art Museum, Singapore
  • Project 35, Independent Curators International, Pratt Manhattan Gallery, New York, NY, USA
  • Commercial Break, Garage Projects, 54th Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy
  • Negotiating Home History And Nation: Two decades of contemporary art in Southeast Asia
  • 1991 – 2011, Singapore Art Museum, Singapore
  • Singapore Biennale Open House, Singapore Art Museum, Singapore
2010
  • Projects 93, MoMA, New York, NY, USA
  • Against Easy Listening, 1a space, Hong Kong
  • 8th Shanghai Biennale, in collaboration with Superflex, Shanghai Art Museum, Shanghai, China
  • Kuandu Biennale, in collaboration with Superflex, Kuandu Museum of Fine Arts, Taipei, Taiwan
  • Porcelain / Mảnh Ghép Cuộc Đời, in collaboration with Superflex, [http://www.porcelaintheseries.com], Sàn Art, Ho Chi Minh City, Viet Nam
  • Your Name Here, Sàn Art @ L’Usine, Ho Chi Minh City, Viet Nam
  • Project 35, Independent Curators International, New York, NY, USA
  • FAX, Para/Site Art Space, Hong Kong
2009
  • Lim Dim, curated by Tran Luong, Stenersenmuseet, Oslo, Norway
  • Palais Project, Vienna, Austria
  • 55th Oberhausen Film Festival, Oberhausen, Germany
  • What’s the Big Idea?, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, CA, USA
2008
  • Strategies from Within, Ke Center, Shanghai, China
  • Third Guangzhou Triennial, Guangdong Museum of Art, Guangzhou City, China
  • Quiet Shiny Words, Galerie Quynh, Ho Chi Minh City, Viet Nam
  • transPOP: Korea Vietnam Remix, ARKO Art Center, Seoul, Korea
  • 2nd Singapore Biennale, Singapore
  • 7th GwangJu Biennale, Korea
  • The Farmers & the Helicopters, Freer & Sackler, Smithsonian, Washington, DC, USA
2007
  • 6th NHK Asian Film Festival, Tokyo, Japan
  • Requiem for a Wall, Galerie Quynh, Ho Chi Minh City, Viet Nam
  • 00s – The History of a Decade That Has Not Yet Been Named, 9th Lyon Biennial, Lyon, France
  • The Peace Project, High Energy Constructs Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, USA
  • Vietnamese International Film Festival, Los Angeles, CA, USA
  • Depiction Perversion Repulsion Obsession Subversion, International Film Festival Rotterdam, Witte de With Center for Contemporary Art, Rotterdam, Netherlands
2006
  • 5th Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art, Queensland Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane, Australia
  • Imaginary Country, Shoshana Wayne Gallery, Santa Monica, CA, USA
  • Diaspora, Esplanade Concert Hall, Singapore

Lectures / Workshops / Panels

2010
  • PUBLIC INTEREST: Projects & Prototypes, LACE and Otis College of Art & Design, Los Angeles, CA, USA
  • Art Matters, grantee panel discussion, Los Angeles, CA, USA
2008
  • transPOP: Korea Vietnam Remix, panel, ARKO Art Center, Seoul, Korea
2007
  • University of California Irvine, School of Art, Irvine, CA, USA
  • California Institute of the Arts, visiting artist, Valencia, CA, USA
2006
  • White Cube Black Box, guest speaker, Gallery of Modern Art, Queensland, Australia

selected publications and catalogs

2011
  • Video, an Art, a History 1965-2010, exhibition catalog, Singapore Art Museum, Singapore
  • Lescure, Lea, “Un printemps a Saigon,” Mouvement, October – December 2011, volume 61, Paris, France
  • Singapore Biennale Open House, exhibition catalog, Singapore Art Museum, Singapore
  • Negotiating Home History And Nation: Two decades of contemporary art in Southeast Asia
  • 1991 – 2011, exhibition catalog, Singapore Art Museum, Singapore
2010
  • Chiu, Melissa and Genocchio, Benjamin, Contemporary Asian Art, Thames & Hudson, London
  • FAX: The Hong Kong Works, exhibition catalog, Para/Site Art Space, Hong Kong
  • BUTT, Zoe [interview], “The Pilgrimage of Inspiration – Artists as Engineers in Vietnam: The Propeller Group interview with Tuan Andrew Nguyen, Phu Nam Thuc Ha, and Matt Lucero”, Independent Curators International: Dispatch, May 13, 2010, <http://www.ici-exhibitions.org/images/uploads/propeller.pdf>
  • VU Thi Quynh Giao [interview], “Vietnam the World Tour: The Propeller Group”, diacritics: Diasporic Vietnamese Artists Network, October 9, 2010, <http://diacritics.org/2010/10/09/vietnam-the-world-tour-the-propellor-group/ >
2009
  • Le, Viet, “Miss(ing) Sai Gon: Contemporary Vietnamese Diasporic Artists – Organisers in Ho Chi Minh City,” Essays on Modern and Contemporary Vietnamese Art, Singapore Art Museum, Singapore
2008
  • “Vietnam,” almanac edition, Art Asia Pacific, Vol III, January 2008
2007
  • 00s – The History of a Decade That Has Not Yet Been Named, exhibition catalog, 9th Lyon Biennial, Lyon, France

Community Art / Art Education

2006
  • Sàn Art, co-founder, non-profit artist run space, Ho Chi Minh City, Viet Nam

filmography

2010
  • The Film About A Film [producer, director, cinematography, editor]
2009
  • Financial Crisis [producer, director]
  • Porcelain / Mảnh Ghép Cuộc Đời [producer, associate producer, director, cinematography]
2008
  • Flooded McDonald’s [producer, director, editor]
  • Burning Car Movie [producer, director, editor]

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For the 5th year, the musée du quai Branly in Paris invites worldwide artists to apply to his subsidy program. The “Résidences de PHOTOQUAI” (Photoquai’s Residency program) concern contemporary photographers from Africa, Asia, Oceania and Americas.

The 2012 call for application is available on the musée du quai Branly website until May 31st, 2012, last day to send applications to the museum.

Information:
Email: projets-creation@quaibranly.fr
Website: http://www.quaibranly.fr/

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When: May 31, 2012 (all-day)
Where: Musee du Quai Branly, Paris, France

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When: May 31, 2012 (all-day)
Where: Musee du Quai Branly, Paris, France

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]]> http://thephilanthropicmuseum.org/ai1ec_event/deadline-submission-photoquais-residency-programme/?instance_id=/feed/ 0 3rd Singapore International Photography Festival http://thephilanthropicmuseum.org/ai1ec_event/3rd-singapore-international-photography-festival/?instance_id= http://thephilanthropicmuseum.org/ai1ec_event/3rd-singapore-international-photography-festival/?instance_id=#comments Fri, 11 May 2012 03:20:53 +0000 Webmaster http://thephilanthropicmuseum.org/?post_type=ai1ec_event&p=661&instance_id=
When: October 5, 2012 – November 18, 2012 (all-day)

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When: October 5, 2012 – November 18, 2012 (all-day)

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]]> http://thephilanthropicmuseum.org/ai1ec_event/3rd-singapore-international-photography-festival/?instance_id=/feed/ 0 Deadline Submission – 8th Angkor Photo Festival http://thephilanthropicmuseum.org/ai1ec_event/8th-angkor-photo-festival-2/?instance_id= http://thephilanthropicmuseum.org/ai1ec_event/8th-angkor-photo-festival-2/?instance_id=#comments Fri, 11 May 2012 03:14:13 +0000 Webmaster http://thephilanthropicmuseum.org/?post_type=ai1ec_event&p=660&instance_id=
When: May 31, 2012 (all-day)

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When: May 31, 2012 (all-day)

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]]> http://thephilanthropicmuseum.org/ai1ec_event/8th-angkor-photo-festival-2/?instance_id=/feed/ 0 8th Angkor Photo Festival http://thephilanthropicmuseum.org/8th-angkor-photo-festival/ http://thephilanthropicmuseum.org/8th-angkor-photo-festival/#comments Fri, 11 May 2012 03:11:18 +0000 Webmaster http://thephilanthropicmuseum.org/?p=659 Next Angkor Photo Festival to be held from 1st to 8th of December 2012! Read on →

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Next Angkor Photo Festival to be held from 1st to 8th of December 2012!

Created in 2005, the Angkor Photo Festival is the first of its kind in Southeast Asia. Held each year in Siem Reap, the weeklong festival features a series of exhibitions, slideshows and outdoor activities. It serves as a platform to discover and re-discover talent from all over the world, and is now a regular highlight on the Asian arts calendar, attracting photography professionals from all over the world.

The unique educational goals of the festival set us apart. Held concurrently with the festival are two free educational workshops the Angkor Photo Workshops for young Asian photographers, and the Anjali Photo Workshops for underprivileged children from Anjali House.

An exciting new addition to the festival is the Reminders Project Asian Photographers Grant, the first grant specifically targeted to supporting Asian photographers working in Asia.

Last year’s festival featured the work of more than 110 photographers, including 70 Asian photographers. Highlights included a unique exhibition on Asian Street Photography and a special slideshow showcase on photography in China.

All our activities are completely non-profit and absolutely free-of-charge for all participants!

We are also proud to announce the Angkor Photo Festival is now a member of the international Festivals of the  Asia Pacific Photo Forum!

More info on the website:
http://www.angkor-photo.com/#!__angkor-photo-festival/vstc7=menu-home

Application:
http://www.angkor-photo.com/#!__angkor-photo-festival/vstc7=menu-media/vstc0=applications

Deadline for submission: 31 May 2012

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When: December 1, 2012 – December 8, 2012 (all-day)
Where: Siem Reap, Cambodia

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Next Angkor Photo Festival to be held from 1st to 8th of December 2012!

Created in 2005, the Angkor Photo Festival is the first of its kind in Southeast Asia. Held each year in Siem Reap, the weeklong festival features a series of exhibitions, slideshows and outdoor activities. It serves as a platform to discover and re-discover talent from all over the world, and is now a regular highlight on the Asian arts calendar, attracting photography professionals from all over the world.

The unique educational goals of the festival set us apart. Held concurrently with the festival are two free educational workshops the Angkor Photo Workshops for young Asian photographers, and the Anjali Photo Workshops for underprivileged children from Anjali House.

An exciting new addition to the festival is the Reminders Project Asian Photographers Grant, the first grant specifically targeted to supporting Asian photographers working in Asia.

Last year’s festival featured the work of more than 110 photographers, including 70 Asian photographers. Highlights included a unique exhibition on Asian Street Photography and a special slideshow showcase on photography in China.

All our activities are completely non-profit and absolutely free-of-charge for all participants!

We are also proud to announce the Angkor Photo Festival is now a member of the international Festivals of the  Asia Pacific Photo Forum!

More info on the website:
http://www.angkor-photo.com/#!__angkor-photo-festival/vstc7=menu-home

Application:
http://www.angkor-photo.com/#!__angkor-photo-festival/vstc7=menu-media/vstc0=applications

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When: April 30, 2012 (all-day)

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When: April 30, 2012 (all-day)

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]]> http://thephilanthropicmuseum.org/ai1ec_event/sipf-2012-deadline-for-submission/?instance_id=/feed/ 0 Ruptures and Revival: Cambodian Photography in the Last Decade http://thephilanthropicmuseum.org/ruptures-and-revival-cambodian-photography-in-the-last-decade/ http://thephilanthropicmuseum.org/ruptures-and-revival-cambodian-photography-in-the-last-decade/#comments Fri, 09 Mar 2012 08:38:14 +0000 Webmaster http://thephilanthropicmuseum.org/?p=648 This exhibition is a testimony of the recent revival of photography in Cambodia. Featuring seven bodies of work made in the last decade, this is the first attempt to showcase three “generations” of photographers within the same exhibition. Read on →

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Khvay Samnang, “Untitled” (2011)

This exhibition is a testimony of the recent revival of photography in Cambodia. Featuring seven bodies of work made in the last decade, this is the first attempt to showcase three “generations” of photographers within the same exhibition. From a redeeming portrayal of Khmer Rouge cadres forced into the revolution to a critical response against the filling-in of lakes in Phnom Penh for commercial purposes, from naked self-portraits that challenge the norms of society to an existentialistic and archaeological study of homes, this exhibition counters the cliché imageries of temples and beggars produced today in the name of documenting Cambodia.

Participating artists: Heng Ravuth, Heng Sinith, Khvay Samnang, Lim Sokchan Lina, Mak Remissa, Sovan Philong and Vandy Rattana.

Guest Curated by Zhuang Wubin

Opening reception:
Thursday, 8 March 2012, 6.30pm

Dates:
Thursday, 8 March 2012 – Sunday, 1 April 2012

Forum with Zhuang Wubin, Erin Gleeson (curator and writer) and Lim Sokchan Lina (artist)
Friday, 9 March 2012, 12.30pm

ICA Gallery 2
Institute of Contemporary Arts Singapore

The gallery opens daily, 10am to 6pm, except on Mondays and public holidays.

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When: March 8, 2012 – April 1, 2012 (all-day)
Where: Lasalle College of the Arts, Singapore

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Khvay Samnang, “Untitled” (2011)

 

 

This exhibition is a testimony of the recent revival of photography in Cambodia. Featuring seven bodies of work made in the last decade, this is the first attempt to showcase three “generations” of photographers within the same exhibition. From a redeeming portrayal of Khmer Rouge cadres forced into the revolution to a critical response against the filling-in of lakes in Phnom Penh for commercial purposes, from naked self-portraits that challenge the norms of society to an existentialistic and archaeological study of homes, this exhibition counters the cliché imageries of temples and beggars produced today in the name of documenting Cambodia.

Participating artists: Heng Ravuth, Heng Sinith, Khvay Samnang, Lim Sokchan Lina, Mak Remissa, Sovan Philong and Vandy Rattana.
Guest Curated by Zhuang Wubin

Opening reception:
Thursday, 8 March 2012, 6.30pm

Dates: Thursday, 8 March 2012 – Sunday, 1 April 2012
Forum with Zhuang Wubin, Erin Gleeson (curator and writer) and Lim Sokchan Lina (artist)
Friday, 9 March 2012, 12.30pm
ICA Gallery 2
Institute of Contemporary Arts Singapore
The gallery opens daily, 10am to 6pm, except on Mondays and public holidays.

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