Curatorial
Practice
June 2020
Thuy-Han Nguyen-Chi, SETS AND SCENARIOS ACT II, Image List: Actions to Relate to Oneself and The World, 2020.
︎ Embodiment
︎ New Modes of Encounter
︎ Online Public Programme
In recent years, media technologies have fundamentally transformed how we encounter, circulate, and experience moving images. As we become increasingly immersed in cycles of image production and consumption, images actively reshape our perceptions, subjectivities, and embodied experiences. At the same time, the boundaries between physical and digital, private and public, and individual and collective experience are becoming increasingly fluid.
Sets and Scenarios explored this cultural condition by examining how mediated images reshape our encounters with art, space, and one another. The program blurred Nottingham Contemporary’s public and private spaces through sculptural installations, sound, video, and live performance, inviting audiences to move through shifting atmospheric environments. It approached the encounter between artwork, viewer, space, and others as an ephemeral and contingent form of collective experience.
Reimagined digitally during the pandemic lockdown, the project extended this inquiry into online space, exploring how cultural experiences might be sustained and transformed as the conditions of collective encounter shift.
︎ New Modes of Encounter
︎ Online Public Programme
In recent years, media technologies have fundamentally transformed how we encounter, circulate, and experience moving images. As we become increasingly immersed in cycles of image production and consumption, images actively reshape our perceptions, subjectivities, and embodied experiences. At the same time, the boundaries between physical and digital, private and public, and individual and collective experience are becoming increasingly fluid.
Sets and Scenarios explored this cultural condition by examining how mediated images reshape our encounters with art, space, and one another. The program blurred Nottingham Contemporary’s public and private spaces through sculptural installations, sound, video, and live performance, inviting audiences to move through shifting atmospheric environments. It approached the encounter between artwork, viewer, space, and others as an ephemeral and contingent form of collective experience.
Reimagined digitally during the pandemic lockdown, the project extended this inquiry into online space, exploring how cultural experiences might be sustained and transformed as the conditions of collective encounter shift.