On the afternoon of November 18, 2022, at the Arts and Culture Center (22 Hang Buom, Hoan Kiem District), Architecture Magazine (Vietnam Association of Architects) in collaboration with Vietnam National University held a Seminar “From Cultural Heritage to Design – Art”. This is an activity within the framework of the Hanoi Creative Design Festival 2022.
The seminar “From Cultural Heritage to Design – Art” is a discussion with four presenters who are artists, craftspeople, and practitioners of culture and art: Nguyen The Son, Nguyen Quoc Hoang Anh, Xuan Lam, and Le Thanh Binh. The program was organized by Lecturer Lu Thi Thanh Le of the Department of Cultural and Creative Industries, Faculty of Interdisciplinary Sciences, Vietnam National University in Hanoi. She teaches and conducts research in folklore, ethnic culture, Vietnamese studies, digital heritage, folklore in the cultural sector, and so on. She is Founders’ co-founder. Vietnamese Culture, and research is frequently associated with community activities.
Artist Nguyen The Son presents with the theme “From Tradition to Tradition”
Nguyen The Son is a visual artist, photographer, art curator and lecturer at the Faculty of Interdisciplinary Sciences, Vietnam National University, Hanoi. He graduated from the Faculty of Painting, Hanoi University of Fine Arts, graduated from Hanoi University of Foreign Languages, and graduated with a Master’s degree in Art Photography and Experimental Art from the Central Academy of Fine Arts (CAFA) from Beijing, China. His works are often characterized by sociological research, questioning and reflecting on memories and human values that were broken and lost during the value conflict of Vietnamese society in the period. He has had nearly 20 solo exhibitions and group exhibitions exhibited in Vietnam and many countries around the world such as USA, UK, France, Sweden, Netherlands, Germany, Korea… They hav been collected at a number of museums such as Worcester Art Museum, RMIT University, CAFA art museum…
Artist Nguyen Quoc Hoang Anh presented with the theme “Identities belong to the future”
Nguyen Quoc Hoang Anh is a multimedia artist and curator; is the founder of Len Thousand Cultural Agency and the Managing Director at DomDom – Center for Experimental Music & Art. He studied music at the Military University of Culture and Arts, a communications specialist at FPT Arena and an art curator at SoundsNow – Onassi Stegi Athens. He works across fields such as: Cultural heritage, contemporary art and media as a brand strategy consultant. Some of the projects in which he participated as a music curator, director and producer: The Sound Visual Project sponsored by the British Council, the Story Of Dan Bau project sponsored by the University of Music and the University of Music. the Hamburg stage, Germany, the Color Bar project sponsored by S&S Group and Cyril Kongo – the work of Song Ngam Song Hong introduced and published in Music and Art in Action magazine and sent for permanent publication by the Institute of Ethnology at the University of Cologne. perpetuated on the MAiA website – located in the University of Exeter’s Digital Archive, the experimental stage play The Void at the Inception Week 2021…
Artist Xuan Lam presents with the theme “A meeting between the past and present with Vietnamese folk paintings”
Xuan Lam is a visual artist based in Hanoi. He holds a bachelor’s degree in Painting from Vietnam University of Fine Arts with experience in self-studying Graphics since the age of 14. Xuan Lam’s art is a combination of inspiration from traditional Vietnamese culture, new ways of expression and personal stories of a 9x generation artist. Xuan Lam is interested in issues of today’s society such as forgetting identity, nostalgia and identity in the era of globalization or invisible barriers between local audiences and contemporary art. Over the past 6 years, he has had many experiments and outstanding achievements with projects inspired by folk paintings in particular and Vietnamese heritage in general.
Kite artist Le Thanh Binh presented with the theme “Experimenting Vietnamese traditional art through kites”.
Kite artist Le Thanh Binh is a member of the Executive Committee of the Vietnam Cultural Heritage Association, Deputy Director of the Center for Conservation of Vietnam Kite Cultural Heritage. He has participated in many international kite festivals in France, Germany, China, Malaysia, Thailand… In addition, he has participated many times in the Organizing Committee at many festivals, international kite festivals and local events in Vietnam.
Artists and artisans participated in the discussion
At the Seminar, artists and artisans shared their experiences and knowledges about exploiting and turning Vietnamese cultural heritages into works of art in different forms and materials such as pottery, silk, kite, performance art…Through the projects that artists and artisans introduced at the Seminar, it can be seen that the common point of artists and artisans is seriousness in his work, enthusiasm and deep understanding of the cultural heritages of Vietnam. By working scientifically, full of passion, love and responsibility for heritage, they have brought Vietnamese cultural heritages to a wide range of domestic and international public, thereby contributing to promoting, introduce images about the country, people and cultural heritages of Vietnam. After the individual presentation, the speakers participated in the discussion with many insightful opinions, bringing perspectives on artistic creative practices based on the material of Vietnamese cultural heritage.
Duc An