Per°Form Open Academy of Arts and Activations 2023 Presentation — Keynote by Art Labor

Synopsis

The vibrations of forms of water — molecules of hydrogen — can shift both terrain and social structure and thus the politics of the local. In the folklore of the Jrai people, one of the ethnic minority groups from Central Highlands of Vietnam, the water movement into “in-between” forms — the “trans” — indicates the landscape and the environment’s changes.

In the keynote, Art Labor immersively recreates JUA — a state/field of water moving in the air — and shares thoughts, activities, and resonances of this “water thought” in the Jrai village community, including human and all living beings, revealing the relationships, imaginativeness, and challenges.

About Art Labor

Art Labor is an artist collective based in Ho Chi Minh City, working in between visual arts, social and life sciences in various public contexts and locales. The collective does not produce artwork but develop many-year-long journeys during which one inspiration is a seed to cultivate. The seed grows — the inspiration expands and bears into rhizome of projects and artworks.

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