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Location: EMASI Nam Long Gymnasium
A conversation between Phụ Lục and Vân Đỗ, moderated by Phan Thảo Nguyên
On the evening of 18 November 2025, the artist collective Phụ Lục began their North–South journey aboard the SE1 train, carrying their works to prepare for the installation of the exhibition Phụ Lục, how are you?, scheduled to arrive in Saigon at dawn on 20 November 2025. However, on the night of 19 November, the train was halted in Quang Ngai due to a historic spell of torrential rain in Central Vietnam – compounded by an unannounced release of water from a hydropower dam – which caused widespread flooding and severe damage to the railway tracks. After various adversities, Phụ Lục have finally arrived in the sun-washed South, on a relief car departing from Dieu Tri Station (Gia Lai province). The journey feels almost allegorical to Phụ Lục’s artistic practice, one shaped by improvisation, contingency, persistence.
In this conversation, the Phụ Lục Project will be illuminated from three intersecting perspectives: first, from the members of Phụ Lục themselves, as they look back on their own past and current practice; second, from the perspective of curator Van Do, who has traced, contextualized, and translated their evolving 15-year practice; and finally, from the position of artist Phan Thao Nguyen, who speaks as a viewer, a colleague of the same generation, one who has witnessed Phụ Lục’s presence within the landscape of contemporary Vietnamese art.
The conversation opens up interwoven entry points into contemporary art histories, performance practices, and their cultural contexts, while fostering dialogue across generations – those who have grown alongside one another, questioned shared urgencies, and continued in parallel within different historical, social, and creative conditions.
The talk takes place at the EMASI Nam Long Gymnasium, which also served as the filming site for Phụ Lục’s performance Độc ẩm (Solo Drinking), a new commission created especially for the exhibition Phụ Lục, how are you? (EMASI Nam Long) as part of the Phụ Lục Project.
Last updated: 06/09/2025 — subject to continuous revision