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Looking back at the Vietnam Festival of Creativity & Design (VFCD) 2020, one of its highlights was its function as a platform for discussing the effects of Covid-19, but also in terms of the correlation between them and various discourses in Vietnam\u2019s arts and culture scene in recent years: digital technology, archiving and heritage.<\/p>\r\n[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_raw_html]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[\/vc_raw_html][vc_single_image image=”2200″ img_size=”full” alignment=”center” css_animation=”fadeInUp” el_class=”longform-full-width longform-particle d-none d-sm-none d-md-block d-lg-block d-xl-block”][vc_single_image image=”2202″ img_size=”full” alignment=”center” css_animation=”fadeInUp” el_class=”longform-full-width longform-particle-sm d-block d-sm-block d-md-none d-lg-none d-xl-none”][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_empty_space height=”8rem”][vc_column_text css_animation=”fadeIn” el_class=”longform-introtext font-worksans”]\r\n

Looking back at the Vietnam Festival of Creativity & Design (VFCD) 2020, one of its highlights was its function as a platform for discussing the effects of Covid-19 \u2013 not only on the more visible, direct impacts (creative spaces being closed, events and activities postponed, etc.), but also in terms of the correlation between them and various discourses in Vietnam\u2019s arts and culture scene in recent years: digital technology, archiving and heritage.<\/p>\r\n

These themes were contemplated and discussed in two VFCD 2020 events in particular: the seminar \u2018Futureproof\u2019 (focused on the scale of organisations and institutions), and the talk \u2018Watershed\u2019 (based around the experience of individual artists and arts practitioners) \u2013 as well as in several other programmes touched on in this article.<\/p>\r\n[\/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space height=”8rem”][vc_single_image image=”1541″ img_size=”full” alignment=”center” css_animation=”fadeInUp”][vc_empty_space height=”4rem”][vc_column_text el_class=”longform-section font-jeanluc”]\r\n

Digital platforms amid a new context<\/p>\r\n[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css_animation=”fadeInLeft” el_class=”font-worksans longform-dropcap text-justify”]The seminar \u2018Futureproof\u2019 took place on 10 November at the Hanoi campus of RMIT University, featuring keynotes from representatives of the Vietnamese Women\u2019s Museum (VWM), the Vietnam National Institute of Culture and Arts Studies (VICAS), and RMIT University Melbourne.<\/span>\r\n\r\nThough VWM has been one of several museums in Vietnam with numerous dynamic approaches to their programming, faced with the unpredictable effects of Covid-19, it was also \u2018caught off-guard\u2019 \u2013 said Nguyen Hai Van, the Museum\u2019s Director. Having to close its doors for an extended period of time, the Museum has been focusing on alternative communication channels to maintain their presence: boosting interaction on social media (Facebook, Instagram, Twitter), improving the integration between the official site and various apps, or making and releasing short films online revolving around the Museum\u2019s activities and women\u2019s stories relevant to their collection in general. Three exhibitions scheduled for this year have also been moved online in commendable experiments in curating for virtual exhibition spaces. <\/span>[\/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space height=”4rem”][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_single_image image=”2185″ img_size=”full” add_caption=”yes” alignment=”center” css_animation=”fadeIn”][vc_empty_space height=”4rem”][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text css_animation=”fadeIn” el_class=”font-worksans text-justify”]Curator Nguyen Anh Tuan (Director of Heritage Space and the moderator of the Seminar) remarked that digital platforms had been a \u2018savior\u2019 in the face of the massive and unpredictable chaos unfolding throughout this year, when all physical events and activities had to be postponed or operated well below full capacity, with international travel being practically impossible. In her keynote, Paula Toal (Head of Cultural and Public Engagement at RMIT University) opined that digital technology is not only the answer to the question of \u2018how to survive\u2019, but also constitutes a great opportunity for growth. Being more active on social media since the pandemic\u2019s onset has helped drive her organisation\u2019s interaction with its audience, as well as leverage transnational collaboration with several communities she hasn\u2019t even been aware of before. The project <\/span>\u2018Skilled Hands \u2013 Shared Culture\u2019<\/span><\/a> is one such example where Vietnamese and Australian artists collaborated in an online exhibition exploring the connection between traditional craft practices and contemporary art; elsewhere, Toal also shared about a project of RMIT Melbourne students who embedded their designs and artworks on face masks \u2013 a product of high practical values for communities that also enables arts practitioners to share their work.\u00a0<\/span>\r\n\r\nPaula Toal believes virtual platforms could still be conducive to creative collaboration, as long as those involved harbour a certain degree of open-mindedness and patience with the creation and development of ideas in these unprecedented times. Heritage Space itself \u2013 curator Nguyen Anh Tuan\u2019s key initiative \u2013 has recently organised a \u2018virtual residency\u2019 for the project <\/span>Month of Arts Practice (MAP)<\/span><\/a>, an annual event normally taking place in Hanoi based around direct exchanges and contact between artists from various cities and countries. The 2020 edition of the project opened up many questions: how can the concept of \u2018residency\u2019 be broadened when participating artists cannot be present and work together in the same place, when the idea of \u2018place\u2019 itself is no longer understood in the conventional sense, when a sense of place doesn\u2019t quite exist? As such, could digital platforms and technology ever completely replace corporeal experiences? A question posed at the Seminar followed these lines of enquiries: how could we balance between \u2018online\u2019 and \u2018physical\u2019 so that people still visit museums and other cultural spaces (where conditions permit) and not only participate through their screens? According to Nguyen Hai Van, each platform has their own features, meaning that VWM curates its online content with careful consideration for relevancy.\u00a0<\/span>\r\n\r\nIn the talk \u2018Watershed\u2019 (taking place on the afternoon of 14 November at the VWM space), artist Richard Streitmatter-Tran talked about \u201cthe scent of burning wood, the wetness of clay, the [knowledge] of whether [a piece of] paper is dry enough for the next layer of watercolour.\u201d These tangible experiences, he believes, \u201ccannot be replicated online.\u201d Interestingly, over the course of his career Streitmatter-Tran has transitioned from video, \u2018new media\u2019 and performance art \u2013 practices pursued at the beginning of his career \u2013 to the present explorations in the physicality of painting and sculpture. He also raised a point pertaining to the often-overlooked discourse of environmental-sustainability: \u201cDigital technology has potential to do good, but it\u2019s also using a lot of resources of the planet.\u201d<\/span>[\/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space height=”4rem”][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_single_image image=”2191″ img_size=”full” add_caption=”yes” alignment=”center” css_animation=”fadeIn”][vc_empty_space height=”4rem”][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text css_animation=”fadeInRight” el_class=”font-worksans text-justify”]At the same event, artist\/curator Nguyen The Son mentioned the possibility of synthesizing multiple platforms in the same project, which according to him, \u201ccan be even more effective than a conventional \u2018physical\u2019 channel in itself\u201d: together with artist Lien Truong (who\u2019s based in North Carolina, USA), he\u2019s been conducting an online exchange programme between students of Vietnam University of Fine Arts and those in North Carolina; dealing with the theme of portraiture artworks from this collaboration will be showcased in the future via a physical exhibition. \u201cOverall, 2020 has been a difficult year, but my working partners and I have still managed to carry out multiple projects, with quite positive results\u201d, said Nguyen The Son.<\/span>\r\n\r\n\u2018No Rain Without Clouds: Preserving Vietnamese Art & Culture for the Future\u2019<\/span><\/a> \u2013 an exhibition that was part of VFCD 2020 showcasing artworks from RMIT Collection of Vietnamese Contemporary Art \u2013 is another case in point. In the talk \u2018Watershed\u2019, Dr. Emma Duester (lecturer at RMIT Vietnam) shared that she and her co-curator Michal Teague had thought about the online edition of the exhibition (taking place in the virtual 3D space on the Kunstmatrix platform) even before planning for the physical showing at VWM; as well, they worked to create a dialogue between the two editions seeking to heighten the value of each particular experience. Dr. Duester believes that virtual platforms no longer play only a complementary role to traditional, physical channels, having taken on spatial features in their own rights. Nevertheless, on the Internet the curators of \u2018No Rain Without Clouds\u2019 were still met with certain types of risks, such as copyright violations or censorships of content; as with colleagues the world over, they took the time to contemplate and dissect the question of \u201chow can we work online?\u201d \u2013 seemingly a simple enough undertaking, and yet is there any bigger question in the context of the arts and culture in 2020?<\/span>[\/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space height=”4rem”][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_single_image image=”2171″ img_size=”full” add_caption=”yes” alignment=”center” css_animation=”fadeIn” el_class=”longform-full-width”][vc_empty_space height=”4rem”][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_empty_space height=”8rem”][vc_single_image image=”1541″ img_size=”full” alignment=”center” css_animation=”fadeInUp”][vc_empty_space height=”4rem”][vc_column_text el_class=”longform-section font-jeanluc”]\r\n

Preserving and sharing memories<\/p>\r\n[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css_animation=”fadeInLeft” el_class=”font-worksans longform-dropcap text-justify”]In an interview with VFCD, RMIT lecturers Emma Duester and Michal Teague spoke about their research on arts and cultural organisations in Hanoi, especially on archiving (and making these archives accessible): \u201cCovid-19 has sped up the changes: quite a few organisations have been much more active since in digitising their archives. Covid-19 is almost like a wake-up call. Some organisations have gone back to recapture 10 years\u2019 worth of programming and made this information available to access.\u201d<\/span>\r\n\r\nRichard Streitmatter-Tran shared that he used to be \u2018obsessed\u2019 with \u201carchiving everything\u201d, as a form of \u2018preservation\u2019. \u201cBut then I realised that archiving is like memory, it changes and it evolves, and in order to make memories sometimes you have to forget things as well. We\u2019ve all lost a hard drive or a folder, but we survive,\u201d he said. Likewise, for artist Nguyen The Son, traditions and heritage can only \u2018survive\u2019 if they exist in a separate context outside of museums and collections, in photographs, stories, or memories enlivened by communities and people in their own ways, or through the interaction and (re)interpretation of arts practitioners. This viewpoint is the common thread running through various community art projects in Hanoi in recent years which Nguyen The Son has curated \u2013 the public art projects on Phung Hung street, in the <\/span>Phuc Tan<\/span><\/a> area, or \u2018<\/span>From Tradition to Tradition<\/span><\/a>\u2019 at Nam Huong Communal House. A similar spirit informed other projects within the framework of VFCD 2020 (the exhibition <\/span>\u2018Weaving Experience into Memory\u2019<\/span><\/a>, Hanoi City Walks run by Friends of Vietnam Heritage, amongst others), and \u2013 outside the Festival \u2013 a variety of initiatives by other organisations and communities across Vietnam (the programme \u2018<\/span>Heritage of Future Past<\/span><\/a>\u2019 run by the British Council in Vietnam, the projects \u2018<\/span>Cultural Community Discourse<\/span><\/a>\u2019, \u2018<\/span>Like the Moon in the Night Sky: A Perspective of Vietnamese Cinema<\/span><\/a>\u2019, \u2018<\/span>Future of Tradition<\/span><\/a>\u2019, the documentary film \u2018<\/span>The Glorious Pain<\/span><\/a>\u2019, the works of \u2018<\/span>\u0110\u00e0n \u0110\u00f3<\/span><\/a>\u2019, etc.)<\/span>[\/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space height=”4rem”][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_single_image image=”2193″ img_size=”full” add_caption=”yes” alignment=”center” css_animation=”fadeIn”][vc_empty_space height=”4rem”][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text css_animation=”fadeInUp” el_class=”font-worksans text-justify”]In her keynote at the seminar \u2018Futureproof\u2019, Dr. Vu Dieu Trung presented on VICAS\u2019 Centre for Cultural Heritage Database as well as the digitisation and promotion of their archives. Since 1997, the Institute has been in charge of the National Target Program on the Preservation of Intangible cultural heritage, with several key activities including researching and making scientific documentaries on the performing arts, rituals, festivals and other cultural activities and crafts of 54 ethnicities in Vietnam; as well as categorising and promoting films, visual documents and reports on the aforementioned researches. The Institute\u2019s dedication is made evident through the scope of its archive: SD-resolution video footage stored in a range of formats – Betacam, DVCam, SVHS, VHS; more than 300 thousand minutes of documentary footage digitised in full HD resolution, more than 71 thousand images from field trips, and 854 scientific research paper (corresponding to 854 forms of intangible cultural heritage).<\/span>\r\n\r\nWith such an enormous database, the challenges lie in processes of digitisation and promotion. Although application of technology is encouraged by the Government, digitisation work at the Institute is only in an early phase in a race with time. Dr. Trung shared that many physical copies at the Institute have deteriorated due to preservation conditions; other than that, the outdated analogue technology also makes it more difficult to access documents of these formats, increasing the chance of losing data forever. \u201cAddressing this issue in order to speed up digitisation as much as possible requires time, human resources and budget\u201d, said Dr. Trung. Apart from government funding, the Institute is also supported by its partners, including international and private organisations \u2013 the British Council, the International Information and Networking Centre for Intangible Cultural Heritage in the Asia-Pacific Region under the auspices of UNESCO (ICHCAP), and Tuan Chau Group \u2013 to strengthen its management, archiving and promotional work in relation to the heritage database. However, a system particularity that hinders the work being carried out is the existence of dual \u2018missions\u2019 that the Institute has to fulfill: according to Dr. Vu Dieu Trung, the political mission is placed above all \u2013 to support research programmes and heritage renovation of state agencies, before promoting the heritage to the larger public. <\/span>[\/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space height=”4rem”][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_single_image image=”2173″ img_size=”full” add_caption=”yes” alignment=”center” css_animation=”fadeIn”][vc_empty_space height=”4rem”][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_empty_space height=”8rem”][vc_single_image image=”1541″ img_size=”full” alignment=”center” css_animation=”fadeInUp”][vc_empty_space height=”4rem”][vc_column_text el_class=”longform-section font-jeanluc”]\r\n

Toward a diverse and specialised ecosystem<\/p>\r\n[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css_animation=”fadeInLeft” el_class=”font-worksans longform-dropcap text-justify”]The active approach in budgeting \u2013 or in other words, \u2018doing business\u2019 \u2013 has never been and could hardly be an option for VICAS\u2019 Centre for Cultural Heritage Database. This was also Dr. Trung\u2019s answer to the question of an audience member on generating sustainable income, especially at a time when many events and activities have to be moved online. Paula Toal believes that audiences are willing to pay for online art and cultural events \u2013 \u2018online\u2019 or \u2018offline\u2019, what matters is whether that event is telling a compelling and intriguing story. Nguyen Hai Van shared that the \u2018key factor\u2019 for VWM is knowing their strengths and weaknesses: \u201cVWM\u2019s weakness is in its lack of business capacity, if we do not consider our objects and activities as commercial products, we will not have any income. But then how do we sell things?\u201d Step by step, they seek possibilities through collaborations with private institutions specialising in e-commerce, a process more or less supported by the surveys, studies and proposals from students of RMIT University Vietnam on the value of VWM\u2019s collections. This is also an example of a public-private partnership, which according to curator Nguyen Anh Tuan, constitutes \u201ca tendency that will continue into the near future, in order for each institution to focus on their strength and share it with the community.\u201d<\/span>[\/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space height=”4rem”][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_single_image image=”2183″ img_size=”full” add_caption=”yes” alignment=”center” css_animation=”fadeInRight”][vc_empty_space height=”4rem”][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text css_animation=”fadeInLeft” el_class=”font-worksans text-justify”]Zooming out to this year\u2019s VFCD edition, we see other examples of this public-private partnership model, which proves increasingly necessary in face of challenges relating to Covid-19, and contributing to the creation of a diverse \u2018ecosystem\u2019 with specific roles and resources so that heritage can \u2018live\u2019 most naturally. Those are <\/span>projects on the artform of Ch\u00e8o<\/span><\/a> initiated by universities and dynamic independent groups (such as <\/span>Ch\u00e8o 48h<\/span><\/a>) with the support from management and artists of Vietnam Ch\u00e8o Theatre; or the <\/span>talks and excursions<\/span><\/a> at <\/span>National Archives Centre III<\/span><\/a> hosted by Friends of Vietnam Heritage \u2013 shedding light on the important yet lesser-known micro-histories. On art education, Richard Streitmatter-Tran remarked: \u201cThe private sector in education has been much more agile in developing curriculum that seems more contemporary. I have real love for the traditional institutions, though, because you never get lacquer painting, sculpture, silk painting or ceramic in private institutions \u2013 while many students don\u2019t even see the value of, say, being a ceramicist in the modern world. So I\u2019d love to see traditional institutions revitalise their curriculum, in fact they\u2019d have to if they want to survive. It\u2019ll come down to the current generation of educators from different sectors, to meet and work together and see these things get better.\u201d<\/span>[\/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space height=”4rem”][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1\/6″][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”2\/3″][vc_column_text css_animation=”fadeInUp” el_class=”font-worksans”]\r\n

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And this encounter \u2013 between organisations and art practitioners doing very different things in different contexts \u2013 has perhaps been the greatest asset of VFCD.<\/p>\r\n<\/blockquote>\r\n[\/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space height=”4rem”][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”1\/6″][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text css_animation=”fadeIn” el_class=”font-worksans text-justify”]In a year hijacked by Covid-19 and \u2018social distancing\u2019, it\u2019s been a strange fortune that a series of events of VFCD\u2019s could still take place, and did indeed take place. No one knows what 2021 might bring \u2013 can things get worse? \u2013 but given all that was shared, contemplated, and discussed at VFCD 2020 \u2013 there might yet be hope.<\/span>[\/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space height=”8rem”][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_separator color=”black” el_width=”20″][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_empty_space height=”8rem”][vc_column_text el_class=”longform-text-credit font-worksans”]\r\n

Written by Tran Duy Hung<\/strong>\r\nGraphics by Rongchoi<\/strong>\r\nTranslated into English by <\/span>Dinh Vu Nhat Hong<\/b><\/p>\r\n

Lead image<\/span>: Nguyen Hoai Giang<\/strong>\u2019s artwork \u2018Emoji City<\/strong>\u2019 in the Phuc Tan public art project<\/span>, photo by <\/span>Nguyen The Son<\/b><\/p>\r\n

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