Entertainment and cultural events of the week (October 24-30)
Exhibition “Movement”
Opening: Fri 21 Oct 2022, 06 pm
Exhibition: 21 – 29 Oct 2022, 09 am – 05 pm
Ho Chi Minh City Museum of Fine Arts
No. 97A Pho Duc Chinh, D.1, HCMC
“Movement” by Mzung Nguyen is a solo exhibition, a visual essay reflecting the transition of urban life through a mixed discipline of collage-art practices. In terms of materials, this project collects and reuses hundreds of old magazines, which have been published during the past decade. Mzung Nguyen finds motivation in tracking the shifts in time and space, the replacement of old and new values, the cultural disparity between tradition and modernity, and the contrasts between human life and the natural world that are printed out in these old publications.
Mzung Nguyen was born in 1982, in central Vietnam. She graduated from journalism studies in 2006 and started her career as a writer. After engaging with several different forms of writing, Mzung Nguyen focused on writing film scripts and was soon persuaded to embark on a professional career in making films. Her works have been released internationally, and Mzung Nguyen has received significant rewards for exploring documentary, short, video-art, and experimental films. After ten years of diligently on the film sector, Mzung Nguyen started looking for new dimensions of creativity with oil painting and collage. Just as her films did previously, Mzung Nguyen still finds artistic novelty in reflecting a contemporary world, however, through the painting discipline, she is able to capture the stillness missed in her moving-picture works.
LIVESPACE PRO
Oct 24, 25 & 26
Complex 01, 29, Lane 31/167, Tay Son Street, Hanoi
The music industry includes many players (artists, record companies, venues, agents, digital platforms, etc.). It is a very complex and globalized environment. LiveSpace PRO offers to all stakeholders with international and Vietnamese experts to better understand the challenges of this industry, to work towards bringing together the sectors of different countries, and to consider solutions for a better integration of Vietnam in international networks. It will also be an opportunity for the artists and the main Vietnamese actors to discover or better know services and products specially designed for the promotion and distribution of the music industry products, and to develop their network in Vietnam and internationally.
The topics discussed, without aiming to be exhaustive, focus on some of the questions that artists, but also the various actors of the music industry, in Vietnam and internationally, may have.
During the first round table, we will focus on questions related to the development of an artistic career: should artists privilege self-publishing or entrust their creations to a label? Apart from the income from the sale of their music on CDs or online, as well as from concerts, can artists hope for other resources? And can they really live from their music in Vietnam?
The second round table raises the question of Vietnam's attractiveness for international artists' tours: how to structure festivals and concert halls to help organize coherent tours? How can we better inform tour operators, agents and international artists of major events and opportunities to perform in Vietnam? But could the increase in international artists' tours reduce the chances for local artists to find dates to perform on their own soil?
The third panel focuses on the international career development of Vietnamese artists: After a presentation of France's strategy to support the development of its artists for export, which could inspire practices in Vietnam, we will reflect on how Vietnamese artists can be spotted to tour internationally, and on the interest that this can present, and also on the role of digital platforms in promoting artists outside the territory. Read More…
