Tran Trong Vu Exhibition
Date: Thu, 11 Dec 2003 11:27:57 -0700
From: Nora Taylor <Nora.Taylor@asu.edu>
Reply-To: vsg@u.washington.edu
To: Vietnam Studies Group <vsg@u.washington.edu>
Subject: Tran Trong Vu exhibition and events
Dear List:
I am happy to announce the following events taking place at Arizona State University in February. Please forward to interested colleagues. If you want additional information on Vu, you may consult his web site:
Happy New Year Giap Than.
Nora
From haophan@library.ucla.edu Mon Mar 15 10:48:43 2004
Date: Wed, 10 Mar 2004 16:31:10 -0800
From: Hao Phan <haophan@library.ucla.edu>
Reply-To: vsg@u.washington.edu
To: Vietnam Studies Group <vsg@u.washington.edu>
Subject: article on Tran Trong Vu from UCLA
Hello Nora, and all
Here is an article on the artist Tran Trong Vu written by a staff member
from the Center for SEA Studies at UCLA. Thank you.
http://www.international.ucla.edu/article.asp?parentid=8550
Hao Phan
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Blue Memory: Paintings by Tran Trong Vu
February 7 - May 1, 2004
Arizona State University Art Museum
Katherine K. Herberger College of Fine Arts
Saturday, February 7, 7-9pm Opening reception. Artist will be present.
The ASU Art Museum presents the first exhibition by contemporary Vietnamese artist Tran Trong Vu in an American museum. For this exhibition, the artist has created 60 striking paintings of life-size figures on transparent sheets of plastic. Suspended from the ceiling, the paintings fill the space and form a labyrinth. The installation explores what it means to be Asian and Vietnamese within the context of an increasingly westernized global culture.
Co-curated by Dr. Nora Taylor, Humanities Department, Arizona State University, and Heather Sealy Lineberry, Senior Curator, ASU Art Museum
Exhibition and educational programs sponsored in part by the City of Tempe and the Friends of the ASU Art Museum. Special thanks to Plum Blossoms Gallery, New York and Hong Kong, for their assistance.
Public Programs:
* February 4, 7:30pm, Film presentation by the Program for Southeast
Asian Studies, The Vertical Ray of the Sun (2000), directed by Tran
Anh Hung and featuring artwork by Tran Trong Vu. Dr. Nora Taylor will
answer questions and comment.
Location: Nursing 101, ASU Campus. For more information on this film
and others call 480/965-4232
* February 13, noon Gallery talk with the artist and Dr. Nora Taylor
Location: ASU Art Museum, Nelson Fine Arts Center
* February 24, 7-9pm Memory, Diaspora, Globalization: Roundtable Discussion
Discussing current issues of displacement, migration and changing notions
of race and representation in contemporary visual culture. How do we
interpret visual/art works that transcend ethno-national boundaries?
If art can be a field of ethnographic inquiry, can art history account
for culture? In a post-colonial/global world, are artistic values equal?
This event complements, frames and contextualizes the exhibitions of
works by artists Tran Trong Vu and Pedro Alvarez at the ASU Art Museum.
Moderator: Nora A. Taylor, Associate Professor, Interdisciplinary Humanities,
Arizona State University.
Panel members include: Dr. Janet Hoskins, Professor of Anthropology,
University of Southern California; Dr. Boreth Ly, Assistant Professor
of Asian Art and Visual Culture, University of Utah; Dr. Saloni Mathur,
Assistant Professor of Art History, University of California, Los Angeles;
Dr. Claudia Mesch, Assistant Professor, Arizona State University; Dr.
Panivong Norindr, Associate Professor of French & Comparative Literature,
University of Southern California.
Sponsored by the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, the Program
for Southeast Asian Studies at ASU and the Department of Languages.
Location: Arizona State University Art Museum, Nelson Fine Arts Center
Free admission to museum and all events.
For more information, please call 480-965-2787 or visit us online at
http://asuartmuseum.asu.edu
ASU Art Museum Hours: Tuesday 10 am - 9 pm; Wednesday - Saturday 10 am - 5 pm; closed Sunday and Monday.
Parking: Free parking available in ASU Art Museum-marked spaces at the south end of Tempe Center at the Ceramic Research Center, located at the NE corner of Mill Avenue and 10th Street. Sign in at the desk in the museum lobby.
Nora A. Taylor
Associate Professor
Southeast Asian Art History
Interdisciplinary Humanities Program and School of Art
Arizona State University
P. O. Box 870302
Tempe, AZ 85287-0302
Office: 480-727-6748
Email: Nora.Taylor@asu.edu