Phụ Lục through whose eyes?
Opening hours: Tuesday, Thursday, Saturday from 10:00 AM to 04:00 PM
Exhibition dates: 29 November 2025 – 15 May 2026
Curated by Van Do, Phụ Lục Through Whose Eyes? dreams the collective’s resonant archive into being. Structured in three light-acts, the exhibition imagines a stage after the artists have departed, where objects, machines and residues carry the performance forward.
Dismantling the collective’s past works, the exhibition translates Phụ Lục’s props, sounds, compositions, and gestures into new assemblages, drawing on archival study, adaptation, and reproduction. Curating becomes an act of tracing, reinscription, and restaging, turning the impossibility of exhibiting performance art into a deliberate imaginative choice.
Performance exists in a moment, and dies when that moment ends. The exhibition takes place after death, remembering itself: full of gaps and ruptures, faltering in recollection, yet persistently alive. It is an effort to make visible what remains alive in the afterlife, dwelling in the generative void between original and revisit, and to reflect on performance in its historiographical force that is continuously layering, overwriting, and performing into the present.
Appendix: Index 2010–2025
Presented in chronological order, Index 2010–2025 gathers an extensive body of images, videos, and texts documenting thirty-seven performances by Phụ Lục across the past fifteen years. Alongside these, it includes supplementary materials that situate the works within their broader artistic, social, and historical contexts—tracing not only the shifting landscape of performance art in Vietnam, Southeast Asia, and beyond, but also the wider movements and discourses that have shaped the medium. Index 2010–2025 is made accessible in two formats: a physical display that accompanies the exhibitions at the two venues of the Nguyễn Art Foundation during their public run, and an online platform at phulucproject.com, designed as a continuously updated resource for consultation, annotation, and research.
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Last updated: 25/09/2025 — subject to continuous revision