Long March Education Platform 1:
Ho Chi Minh Trail
July 2009, December 2010
This
phase of the Ho Chi Minh Trail
project was organized in conjunction
with Long March Education,
an ongoing educational program
focusing on the study of critical
relationships between art,
its production and the systems
in which this visual practice
is historicized and displayed.
The
first residency, held in July
2009, hosted eleven thinkers
from Ho Chi Minh City, Hanoi,
Phnom Penh, New York, Seoul,
Hangzhou and Beijing.The residency
program operated as a curatorial
brainstorm for the Ho Chi
Minh Trail project, through
which residents closely examined
the shared physical and psychological
landscape imbedded within
the Ho Chi Minh trail route.
Throughout July, four thematic
topics were introduced as
starting points to discuss
ways in which artists transform
discursive material into visibility.
The second residency, held in December 2010, hosted two key project participants Nguyen Nhu Huy (independent curator and Founder of Zerostation, Ho Chi Minh City) and Viet Le (artist and researcher). During the ten day program, the participants were invited to conduct their independent research projects and collaborate on a written dialogue as they travel across Beijing, Hanghouz, and Shanghai. In this mobile workship, the residents visited art institutions, academies, and artist studios, while reconnecting with fellow long marchers who have participated in the project's 2010 June-July journey through Cambodia, Vietnam, Laos, and China.