Open studio by Phụ Lục (Nguyễn Huy An, Hoàng Minh Đức, Vũ Đức Toàn, Nguyễn Văn Song, Ngô Thành Bắc)
2018
MoT+++, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
As part of MoT+++ performance residency program (2018).
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Đức holds the Phụ Lục uniform in his hands, standing on the prow of a small boat as a larger boat tows it along. Screened on an old TV overlooking the river, the work is conceived as the focal piece, with other works orbiting around it like satellites. Toàn gathers duckweed around MoT+++, letting it multiply inside the room within whatever containers can hold it. Bắc goes around asking where one can buy a ship’s anchor. Song stands peeling strips of white fabric from the hull of an old boat. An drags a mass of duckweed mounted on wheels, pulling it through the Thủ Thiêm tunnel and across the riverbed.
The open studio took place on the 19th floor of the building, in the room B19.05.
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