Conversation with Nguyen Anh-Tuan on Vietnam Art Archive Dan N. Tran
Publicly launched in April 2022, Vietnam Art Archive is an online archival site for Vietnamese contemporary art. This first-of-its-kind initiative by Heritage Space systematically documents contemporary practices in the geography of Vietnam and in authorship by Vietnamese artists since 1990. In this conversation, we ask Heritage Space’s artistic director Nguyen Anh-Tuan about the internal operations and intricacies of building an archive.
What were the circumstances that prompted you to pursue this project? Before working at Heritage Space, I used to work at Vietnam Institute of Art (Viện Mỹ Thuật). My post there, which lasted for 15 years from 2002, showed me the reality that archival and research work on contemporary art is heavily neglected, as even the national research agency specialising in fine arts could neither develop a comprehensive archival system nor follow some theoretical frameworks undergirding contemporary art.
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