Dear Zoe
Just a short note to let you know that I received your email which helps me to understand better the current thinking at Long March. There are still many questions, some concerning very fundamental things. I'll respond in details later this week. In the meantime, I'd be absolutely happy if you include Luong, Dinh and even others to broaden the discussion. It would be great if we can sustain a rich online debate which eventually goes on to be part of the realization of the project. A blog would be a convenient form.
Talk to you later,
Giang
(the above excerpt shared on email on 12 August, 2008)
Welcome to the blogsite of the 'Ho Chi Minh Trail (Duong Truong Son)' Project
The Long March Project - Ho Chi Minh Trail (Duong Truong Son) extends a contemporary campaign of critical discourse surrounding art and culture for the Long March Project. It will investigate the potential common threads and divergent perspectives of lived and felt experience of the metaphorical memory of this trail, between participants from Vietnam, Cambodia, China, Laos and critical thinkers abroad. It aims to be a progressive exercise built on the value of process and exchange, rather than an assumed investment in result and object making (though undoubtedly a valid part of an artistic process).
This educational platform aims to discard the assumed differentiation between artist, curator, writer, critic, historian or student, searching for critical discussion of ideas and potential artistic endeavors through a mobile ‘residency’ where artistic practice and historical fact is challenged and ‘taken on the road’. This will not only be a physical journey within this region, but also a conceptual engagement between creative thinkers that challenges the place of art and culture in contemporary society. Such dialogue could occur at the site of ‘Long March Education’ in Beijing; it could occur in the home of a Cambodian artist; on a train traveling south from Nanning to Hanoi; or over a blog site. It is a project desiring a re-visitation of the ideological motivations behind the origination of the Long March Project, seeking to re-ignite the experience of the mobile self and the importance of knowledge making through social agency and artistic exchange.
See here for more: http://www.longmarchspace.com/yanan/huzhiming/e-index.html
Blog Archive
Hanoi artists gathering at Nhasan House, Hanoi, July, 2008
Zoe (right) with Tran Thu Ha, a guide at the Ho Chi Minh Trail Museum who re-traced this Trail as a result of her academic studies, January, 2008
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