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Art installation tour/walk: Phúc Tân public art project – part of VFCD- FULL
November 21 @ 6:00 PM - 8:30 PM
150,000VND
THIS TOUR IS NOW FULL.
Moved from Thursday 21 November to Friday 22 November
This walk/tour has been entered as part of the Vietnam Festival of Creativity & Design (VFCD) 2024) taking place in Hanoi and HCMC (and is the 2nd of 2 events are are submitting)
• HANOI: 16 – 22 Nov
• HO CHI MINH city: 29 Nov – 5 Dec
FVH has taken part in all the VFCDs (apart from last year) for more info on VFCD – https://vfcd.events/en/home/
FVH links up with art researcher/public artists extraordinaire Nguyễn Thế Sơn who takes us on an evening tour of the 16 inspirational public artworks in Phúc Tân ward between Long Biên and Chương Dương Bridges. The artists helped transform an area once seen as the back of a city.
Phúc Tân public art Project was initiated by the People’s Committee of Hoan Kiem district in summer 2019 and fits perfectly with this year’s VFCD theme
The Phúc Tân area along the Red River was originally overlooked and discarded until Sơn and his team arrived. They inspired the local families to be proud of their environment and brought them on board with the art project. The artists have created a public art installation on what remains of the flood wall. The artworks use recycled materials, and other items and ideas which tie the area into the Red River and Long Bien Bridge, incorporating its history from ancient and French times to the present day.
Artists featured in Phuc Tan public art project: Nguyễn Thế Sơn (curator), Cấn Văn n, Phạm Khắc Quang, George Burchett, Vương Văn Thạo, Trịnh Minh Tiến, Lê Đăng Ninh, Nguyễn Hoài Giang, Nguyễn Trần Ưu Đàm, Nguyễn Xuân Lam, Nguyễn Ngọc Lâm, Diego Cortiza, Trần Hậu Yên Thế, Vũ Xuân Đông, Nguyễn Đức Phương, Trần Tuấn.
The area is open to the public and one can visit the art works any time but its special at night and when led by the project’s founder Sơn.
The walk is led by Sơn in English. He will explain the idea of the project, how it was explained to the locals, how the land was used, and the meaning of each of each art installation. We begin by exploring a fairly new project also with Son, walking across the Trần Nhật Duật road pedestrian overpass which has been transfomred into a work of art, and then over the dyke wall and up to Phuc Tan. Exact meeting point and logistics instructions will be sent to those who sign up.
Sơn and the artists were honoured by Hoan Kiem District People’s Committee for their work (pic. here with their certificates)
Please RSVP through this VFCD google form.
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScoHDxxN5dfzkfszqlckJyCB8bSe9BxvDJb7umi-Uj_fDjEzw/viewform
Contact stella@fvheritage.org
Numbers max 10 people
amount pp – 150,000 VND
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