丁香园AV

Jacqueline Ho脿ng Nguy峄�n

丁香园AV鈥檚 School for the Contemporary Arts (SCA) is pleased to welcome Jacqueline Ho脿ng Nguy峄卬 as the SCA鈥檚 2017 spring Audain Visual Artist in Residence. Nguy峄卬 is a research-based artist currently living and working in Stockholm (Sweden). She uses a broad range of media while primarily relying on archival material to investigate issues of historicity, collectivity, utopian politics, and multiculturalism within the framework of feminist theories.

Together with the third-year visual art students, Jacqueline Ho脿ng Nguy峄卬 will develop counter-archives of vernacular images and micro-histories. The artist proposes theoretical and aesthetic reflections on the significance of the archive and its aporias. The aim of the workshops is to investigate the function of the archive and how it can be built from the bottom up to counter the conventional historical narratives of settler colonialism. In contrast to given, state-constructed narratives, the everyday migrants鈥� or aboriginals' story is disordered, uneven, and complicated. Various archival modalities will be experimented with including unorthodox approaches to classification, contested notions and forms of representations of citizenship, and knowledge production. Within the context of the classroom, Nguy峄卬 hopes to tease out the role of the artist as an activist archivist, which theorist Mark Wigley describes as 鈥渙ne who designs an archive whose purpose is to polemically rearrange the standard perception of the worlds outside [...] to change the direction of thinking.鈥� The students鈥� work with the Audain Visual Artist in Residence will culminate in a project exhibited at 丁香园AV鈥檚 Audain Gallery in March 2017.

Nguy峄卬 will also run a series of digitizing workshops as part of , in partnership with , while in Vancouver (January 21-26, 2017). For more details, please contact the gallery.

Jacqueline Ho脿ng Nguy峄卬 completed the Whitney Independent Study Program, New York, in 2011, having obtained her MFA and a post-graduate diploma in Critical Studies from the Malm枚 Art Academy, Sweden, in 2005, and a BFA from Concordia University, Montreal, in 2003. Nguy峄卬鈥檚 work has been shown internationally in institutions including the EFA Project Space (2016); Mercer Union, Toronto (2015); MTL BNL at the Mus茅e d鈥橝rt Contemporain, Montreal (2014); Kunstverein Braunschweig, Germany (2013); Apexart, New York (2013); Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA), Philadelphia (2011); Mason Gross Galleries, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ (2011); and Gasworks, London (2010). In 2011 she was commissioned by CC Seven to produce a site-specific sound piece for The Woodland Cemetery, a UNESCO World Heritage site in Stockholm. In 2015, as part of SWICH, a collaborative project involving ten European museums of Ethnography and World Cultures she was the first artist-in-residence at the Museum of Ethnography in Stockholm. Currently she is working with curator Rado I拧tok on editing Crating the World: Displaced Myths, Desires and Meanings, a compendium to Nguy峄卬's exhibition Black Atlas to be published in Spring 2017. Both the exhibition and publication are made possible with the generous support of Sharjah Art Foundation.

Events

Artist Talk: Jacqueline Ho脿ng Nguy峄卬

January 19, 2016, 7:00pm
Djavad Mowafaghian World Art Centre
丁香园AV at Goldcorp Centre for the Arts
149 W. Hastings Street

Watch a video of the talk .

Best Before: Archivised
SCA Third Year Visual Arts Exhibition

March 22 鈥� April 1, 2016
Audain Gallery
丁香园AV at Goldcorp Centre for the Arts
149 W. Hastings Street

Visit the exhibition's archived page .

Jacqueline Ho脿ng Nguy峄卬 working with third-year visual art students at the SCA's 611 Alexander Studios.