Solo show "After Me, the Deluge / Sau ta là hồng thủy"
"After Me, the Deluge / Sau ta là hồng thủy" marks Vietnamese artist Cẩm-Anh Lương’s first solo exhibition in Germany at SOMA Art Berlin. Through immersive installations in mixed media and VR, Cẩm-Anh explores the personal and collective memories shaped by migration, Western colonialism, and imposed stereotypes on Southeast Asian identities. Echoing the phrase "After me, the deluge"—used by figures from King Louis XV to Karl Marx—the exhibition contemplates the turbulent impact of power, impermanence, and consequence in a digital age, challenging how we remember and connect across histories and geographies.
"After Me, the Deluge / Sau ta là hồng thủy" marks Vietnamese artist Cẩm-Anh Lương’s first solo exhibition in Germany at SOMA Art Berlin. Through immersive installations in mixed media and VR, Cẩm-Anh explores the personal and collective memories shaped by migration, Western colonialism, and imposed stereotypes on Southeast Asian identities. Echoing the phrase "After me, the deluge"—used by figures from King Louis XV to Karl Marx—the exhibition contemplates the turbulent impact of power, impermanence, and consequence in a digital age, challenging how we remember and connect across histories and geographies.
Curated by Nabi Nara and supported by the Senate Department for Culture and Social Cohesion.
Opening:
6-10PM
Friday 15.11.2024
Opening Hours:
2 - 6 pm, Wed.-Sat. 18.11-07.12.2024
SOMA Art Berlin, Eylauer Str. 9, 10965 Berlin
︎︎︎SOMA Art Berlin
Curating space:
Bottom-up/Bottom-down/Bottom-around
or: “Who cares about the bottom?”
Raum kuratieren:
Bottom-up/Bottom-down/Bottom-around
oder „Wer interessiert sich für das Unten?“
Bottom-up/Bottom-down/Bottom-around
or: “Who cares about the bottom?”
How can curatorial practices incorporate diverse perspectives and voices, and what conflicts can arise? Where can we find a history that includes unheard, marginalized, feminist, and postcolonial voices from the bottom up? [..]
nGbK, 2024
︎︎︎Full text in English
Raum kuratieren:
Bottom-up/Bottom-down/Bottom-around
oder „Wer interessiert sich für das Unten?“
Wie kann die kuratorische Praxis unterschiedliche Perspektiven und Stimmen einbeziehen, und welche Konflikte können dabei entstehen? Wo können wir eine Geschichte finden, die ungehörte, marginalisierte, feministische und postkoloniale Stimmen von unten nach oben einschließt? [..]
nGbK, 2024
︎︎︎Volltext auf Deutsch
︎︎︎nGbK/Online Platform Curating through Conflict with Care
︎︎︎nGbK/Online Platform Curating through Conflict with Care
Mind & Machine
Since the nineteenth century’s industrial revolution, technology and machines have dominated all facets of life and fundamentally altered how societies function. Technology has advanced greatly from tools to free labour to “digital labourers” capable of replacing humans and performing tasks requiring complex logical and perceptual skills, putting it at the centre of debates surrounding identity and the ties that bind humans and machines together.
We have reached the point in history where machines are closest to humans. Current artificial intelligence (AI) is capable of learning, synthesizing information, analyzing, and giving answers outside of what it is programmed to do. Humans make machines and develop them by imitating ourselves. So how do we as humans advance when machines advance? What are the possibilities of advanced machines in our human hands?
The exhibition MIND & MACHINE is an invitation to researchers and artists to respond to the question posed above and present their responses in the form of physical, digital or interactive work using new technology (AR, VR, AI). The exhibition within the framework of the Vietnam Festival of Creativity & Design 2023 (VFCD 2023) will take place at two locations: Ho Chi Minh City and Hanoi in November and December 2023.
Curated by Hải Nam NguyễnText & Photo: Vietnam Festival of Creativity & Design 2023
November 13th-19th, 2023
Hai An Gallery
Hồ Chí Minh City, Vietnam
December 1st-7th, 2023
Vietnamese Women’s Museum
Hà Nội, Vietnam
︎︎︎VFCD Website ︎︎︎VFCD Instagram
Summer Symposium: Curating through Conflict with Care
The nGbK working group „Curating through Conflict with Care“ (CCC) invites you to a three-day summer symposium from 4 to 6 August 2023. The symposium will take place from Friday to Sunday from 10:00-18:00 and will be launched with an opening party on Thursday evening.
The symposium uses conflict and contradiction as a methodology to identify and work through the paradoxes of inclusive curating. CCC addresses these contexts as a starting point for further developing best practices and existing debates on curatorial responsibility. The nGbK working group invites workers in the arts to exchange ideas on how to further develop the role of the curator and address contemporary challenges. Together they will gather experiences and ideas for (extra)institutional changes that put care at the centre.
Text & Photo: Symposium description (c) CCC collectiveAugust 4th-6th, 2023
Berlin
︎︎︎CCC Instagram ︎︎︎nGbK
ZKU Programmwerkstatt mit kleinem Sommerfest
June 29th, 2023
ZK/U – Zentrum für Kunst und Urbanistik
Siemensstrasse 27
10551 Berlin
︎︎︎Programme ZKU ︎︎︎Retrospective
