January 11 – March 4, 2012
ICA: Institute of Contemporary Art (University of Pennsylvania)
Philadelphia | US

This exhibition explores cinema's complex political, formal, and ideological history from the 1910s to the 1960s by showcasing the work of six international artists. Each uses archival material to convey both a critique and a nostalgia for the outmoded film technologies and abandoned idealism of a previous era. Living Document / Naked Reality: Towards an Archival Cinema opens on Wednesday, January 11, 2012 with a reception from 6-8pm, and will remain on view in ICA's Project Space through March 4, 2012.

Curated by Jennifer Burris

Artists include: Mathieu Kleyebe Abonnenc, Thom Anderson, Yto Barrada, Jacqueline Hoang Nguyen, Maha Maamoun, and Alexandra Navratil

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January 4th – February 22nd, 2012
Ken Lum's Master Class: Art and the effects of the Real
Artist-in-Residence at the Banff Center
Banff | CA

Antonio Gramsci wrote in The Prison Notebooks, “If it is true that every language contains the elements of a conception of the world and of a culture, it could also be true that from anyone’s language one can assess the greater or lesser complexity of his conception of the world.” Gramsci was arguing for the empowerment of individuals to develop a more complete understanding of the world in its historic richness and complexity, particularly in respect to the bridging of differences of one culture to another. In the context of an increasingly multi-cultural and multi-racial world, many artists and art institutions have adopted strategies or mandates related to the production of the effects of the Real. Relational Aesthetics is one such procedure while the ethnographic turn in art is another. The most interesting contemporary art is focused on the uneasy relationship between identity and the Real, concerned centrally with the social and spatial impediments that so often divide people from one another. It is the aim of Art and the effects of the Real to investigate the deepening interest of art towards its contingencies.

Participants: Heather Benning, Meagan Boisvert, Vincent Chevalier, Jacqueline Hoang Nguyen, Nicholas Kersulis, Francois Lemieux, Mark Lemmon, Lisa Marshall, Divya Mehra, Casey Wei.

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Tuesday December 13rd, 2011, 7pm
Galerie Quynh
Ho Chi Minh City | VN

Please join us for a talk by artist Jacqueline Hoang Nguyen, hosted by Galerie Quynh, co-organized by Sàn Art and dia/projects.

Current artist-in-residence at dia/projects, Jacqueline Hoang Nguyen, will speak about the influence of feminist theories in her artistic practice and her interest for archives. Nguyen will unpack ongoing and past works in an attempt to raise questions on the ordering of knowledge and exploring unexpected ways of re-articulating the past, exposing the ideological constructions of such processes, while translating present concerns. In her work, she uses a broad range of mediums including sound, video, printmaking and photography.

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November – December 2011
Artist/Researcher-in-residence at dia/projects
Ho Chi Minh City | VN

dia/projects is a contemporary art experiment in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam bringing together artists, designers, architects, theorists, urbanists, curators historians, performers and general outsiders into fold.

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October 29 – November 6, 2011
The Invisible Dog Art Center
Brooklyn | US

Artists of American Idolatry will make use of physical action, installation, and experimentation to assert spaces with a shrine-like religious artifice that, though constructed, will strive to function as “real” sites of idolatry, worship, and remembrance of America and its rich socio-cultural histories. Artists will be asked to reflect on what the notion of America and American identity means to them, as influenced by pop culture aesthetic and contemporary politics.

Curated by Legacy Russell

Artists: Danielle Abrams, CHERYL, Jonah Emerson-Bell, Ryan Frank, Danny Ghitis, Christopher Gideon, Lizzie Gill, Madeleine Hunt-Ehrlich & Diane Exavier, Sam Keller, Jason Lazarus, Maia Murphy & Eli Dvorkin, Jacqueline Hoang Nguyen, Rance Palmer, Sandra Payne, Kaitlin Kylie Pomerantz, Kenya (Robinson), Legacy Russell


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Sunday October 23 at 11.00 - 17.00

B-open seminar 2011
VISIONS: UPHEAVALS AND UNPRACTICAL IDEAS
Bergen | Norway

Starting from the concept of visions – that of being visionary, foresighted, future thinking – B-open wishes to discuss to what degree contemporary artists relate to an imagined future.

Mining the past and archives are thematic and methodical ghosts in much of contemporary art production. Looking back is motivated and shaped by many different agendas. It can be justified by the artist wanting to use the past’s visions to evaluate the present, or it can originate in a critique of the archives and institutions shaping history writing. Then again, the artist’s glance at the future could be an attempt to intervene in coming history writing, creating what can be seen as a visionary project.

The tendency to look back has been criticised for cultivating nostalgia and sentimentality, yet has also been defended as important contributions to developing a critical consciousness of history. The idea that it is no longer possible to create anything new comes from a broad political and philosophical critique of Modernity and its faith in progress and utopias. In relation to this discussion it is important to focus on art and the artist role, since our understanding of both is closely linked to Modernity.

Modernity tied the artist to the idea of the visionary: Its image of an artist is that of the one who can see further than the non-artist. From psychoanalysis, which also is an invention of Modernity, the idea emerged that the artist through her own sub-consciousness could show and interpret the collective sub-consciousness, thus part take in public as a truth witness. It is possible to argue that the ideas of the artist as a visionary and a truth witness was fractioned by Post-Modernism, when the artist started to act as a cultural DJ, autonomy yielded to populism and high- and low culture was supposedly dissolved.

We want to discuss: Is it in our time, in this historical moment, possible to make or to think something new and to escape the refrain that everything is already done?

Participants: Charles Esche, Jakob H. Jakobsen, Jacqueline Hoang Nguyen and Per-Oskar Leu.


B-open was initiated and is run jointly by the two artist unions Bildende Kunstneres Forening Hordaland (BKFH) and Norske Kunsthåndverkere Vest-Norge (NKVN), in collaboration with Hordaland Art Centre (HKS).

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Saturday October 22, 2011
The Woodland Cemetery
Stockholm | Sweden

Let me lose myself is an invisible exhibition hosted in the multivalent, unique cultural heritage site that is the Woodland Cemetery in Stockholm. The site-specific sound artworks have all used the space as a point of origin in different ways. The audience is taken on a journey beyond the geography of the place, a journey where new interior and exterior pathways are activated. The sound art pieces are downloaded onto a mobile phone or an mp3-player, making it possible for the visitor to explore the space and the exhibition independently and at his or her own pace. The number of episodes will gradually increase from the beginning of the project in May 2011 up to its close in December 2013. By adding new layers of sound art over a longer period the project echoes the way the cemetery was built by the architects Gunnar Asplund and Sigurd Lewerentz in various stages and over many years.

Let me lose myself is curated by CCSEVEN and will be releasing a number of episodes over the next three years.

Episode II features sound artworks by Jacqueline Hoang Nguyen and Tobias Sjöberg

Download the artworks/audio walks at www.letmelosemyself.com

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September 30th – October 22nd, 2011
Mass Distractions and Cultural Decay
Curated by LaToya Ruby Frazier

Mason Gross Galleries
 – 2011 Annual Fall Exhibition
Rutgers University, Mason Gross School of the Arts
Civic Square, 33 Livingston Avenue
New Brunswick | NJ

The exhibition Mass Distractions and Cultural Decay showcases artists who deploy strategies and techniques that counter and subvert culture industry ideologies that promote racism, classism, nationalism, militarism, sexism, imperialism, colonialism, and consumerism.

Some of the artists featured in Mass Distractions and Cultural Decay includes: Michael Paul Britto, Brian Bulfer, Heather Bursch, Damian Catera, Crystal Z. Campbell, Taeyoon Choi, Raphael Dallaporta, Emory Douglas, Sam Durant, Sarah Eliassen, Hasan Elahi, Andrea Fraser, Harun Farocki, Nate Harrison, Marc Handelman, Akintola Hanif, Jacqueline Hoang Nguyen, Sean Hovendick, Jon Kessler, Ardele Lister, Amanda Matles, Laura Mulvey, Remembering Olive Collective, Wanda Raimundi-Ortiz, Martha Rosler, Ivor Shearer, Scott Thode, Shane Whilden, Hank Willis Thomas and Jasiri X.


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September 28, 2011
Third Streaming
New York City | USA

Parallel to the exhibition Film Still Highlights from The Black Power Mixtape 1967-1975, Black Power Remix is a conversation on contemporary cultural activism inspired by the legacy of the Black Panthers, and the role of art and artists today. Rico Gatson, Jacqueline Hoang Nguyen, Donna Murch and Minkah Makalani will discuss their work and experience on the topic.

Curated by Yona Backer and Anna Stein


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2011 - 2012
BRIC Media Arts Fellowship
BRIC Arts|Media|Bklyn
Brooklyn | USA

Each year, BRIC Arts|Media|Bklyn's community media and contemporary art programs sponsor the BRIC Media Arts Fellowship. The Fellowship makes both BRIC’s BCAT Media Center and some of its Brooklyn Center for Media Education training programs available to professional Brooklyn-affiliated visual artists.

BRIC Media Arts Fellows: Jacqueline Hoang Nguyen, Michele Kong, Kiritin Beyer, Iviva Olenick, Alexandria Smith, Ellie Irons, Katy Gross, Jenny Polak, Shanjana Mahmud, Alexandra Reali, Karen Ostrom, Max Greis, Joanne Cheung, Jana Weaver, Nadia Awad.

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March 2011
Singing Is Political, Collaborative workshop
Left Forum 2011: Towards a Politic of Solidarity
Pace University
New York | USA

Privileging the personal over the social challenges solidarity and radical change. In The Critique of Everyday Life, Henri Lefebvre writes "how can the 'masses'-whether masses of moments or masses of human beings-'participate' in a total vision?" This workshop, entitled "Singing is Political," invites participants to engage a total vision via singing together. This workshop will employ famous and little-known songs of liberation, protest, and resistance in an effort to create embodied collective experiences. We will analyze lyrics of anthems, spirituals, folk melodies, chants, as well as workers' and rap songs. We will sing these songs together, experimenting with ways in which singing shifts our individual experiences to collective engagement. Participants will receive a songbook to use, keep, and edit. In an effort to recoup the playfully spontaneous and sensuous qualities of everyday experience, we ask with the help of Bob Marley: "won't you help to sing these songs of freedom?"

In collaboration with Park McArthur, Sofía Olascoaga, Maibritt Pedersen, Sadia Shirazi

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December 2010
Om Skrattets Mekanismer: For An Epidemic Resistance
Nutida Musik, issue on "voice"
Edited by Andreas Engström and guest editor Åsa Stjerna

An essay about my installation For An Epidemic Resistance was published in Nutida Musik, edition 03/2010. Nutida Musik is a Swedish journal on contemporary music. It was established in 1957 and is published four times every year with each number devoted to a special theme. The journal is published in Swedish with occasional English texts. Nutida Musik has an international profile and co-operates with musicologists and critics all over the world. It covers the new music scenes: chamber music, music theatre, electronic music, sound art, improvisation, etc. Adreas Engstrom is editor-in-chief.

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September 2010 – May 2011
Whitney Museum of American Art
Independent Study Program, Fellow Studio Artist
New York | USA

The Independent Study Program (ISP) consists of three interrelated parts: Studio Program, Curatorial Program and Critical Studies Program. The ISP provides a setting within which students pursuing art practice, curatorial work, art historical scholarship, and critical writing engage in ongoing discussions and debates that examine the historical, social, and intellectual conditions of artistic production. The program encourages the theoretical and critical study of the practices, institutions, and discourses that constitute the field of culture.

Studio Program Participants: Anthea Behm, Bosko Blagojevic, Heather Bursch, Crystal Z. Campbell, Sara Eliassen, Loretta Fahrenholz, LaToya Ruby Frazier, Lili Holzer-Glier, Michael Just, Jason Loebs, Jacqueline Hoang Nguyen, Amanda Matles, Park McArthur, Roberto Meza, Patrick Price, Anna Sandgren, Ivor Shearer

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September 18 – October 10, 2010
World Exhibition POST-IT
Group Exhibition, Rostrum Gallery
Malmö | SE

The World Exhibition POST-IT project is run by Rostrum Gallery on the initiative of Jon Åkerlind, artist and member of artist-run center Rostrum. Rostrum Gallery is an artist-run and non-profit gallery with focus on contemporary art. The gallery started in 1985 in a backyard in the center of Malmö and has become an important meeting place and arena for contemporary art in Sweden.

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July – August 2010
Beyond Former Heaven (or the Institute of Surrealist Ethnography)
Artist-in-Residence, Banff Centre
Banff | CA

The Banff Centre, formerly known as The Banff Centre for Continuing Education, is an arts, cultural, and educational institution and conference complex located in Banff, Alberta. The Banff Centre is part of Alberta's post-secondary educational system, and offers programs in the performing and fine arts, and leadership training.

The thematic residency Beyond Former Heaven (or the Institute of Surrealist Ethnography), directed by artist Olivia Plender, encourages participants to work, live, play, and think collaboratively and is based on the view that experimentation should not simply be confined to the safe space of art practice but can also change our social relations. The main focus of activity will be to open up the idea of what research can be, approaching it as a performative act in itself. In this context, research can be understood as an ongoing group performance encompassing familiar academic models (such as reading groups and field trips), alongside activities such as collaborative film-making, experimental ways of living, and other more irrational approaches to knowledge production.

Residency Leader: Olivia Plender

Participants: Johan Lundh & Aileen Burns, Bronwen Moen, Jacqueline Hoang Nguyen, Laurita Siles, Robin Simpson, Sofia Törnblad, Juliane Zelwies, Lisa Visser, Richard Ibghy & Marilou Lemmens, Rodrigo Marti, Denver Lynxleg, Antoni Wojtyra, Candice Lin, Patrick Staff and Roy Caussy.

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June 2010
Artist-in-Residence, L'Atelier Circulaire
Montreal | CA

L'Atelier Circulaire is a center for production and dissemination of printed art and its goal is to encourage creative work and research in print art. It is specialized in intaglio, relief and lithography techniques and the workshop is equipped with a professional printing service.

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April 24 – 25, 2010
Solidarity Camp!
Chelsea Programme’s Borderline
London | UK

Chelsea Programme’s Solidarity Camp! features an invited group of artists, curators and thinkers to consider contemporary European responses to the notion of ‘solidarity,’ as part of the Transeuropa festival. If it is accepted that mainstream political and social responses to the ongoing demographic and cultural shifts within Europe promote the idea that ‘solidarity’ with ‘others’ is impossible/undesirable how can the debate be reframed? What solidarities are needed now? How can one counter a system which encourages people not to see what they have in common, but only their differences? Is solidarity an outdated concept? If not, what needs to be done in order to encourage the creation of transnational, multi ethnic solidarity? If so, is another concept needs to be invented?

Leader: Sonya Dyer

Participants: Hamja Ahsan, Jude Bloomfield, Sonia Boyce, Manick Govinda, Emanuele Guidi, Nanette Hooslag, Jacqueline Hoang Nguyen (ROC), Lynda Morris, Emma Ridgway, Lorena Rivero de Beer.
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April 17 – 18, 2010
Das schwedische modell
Curated by Jakob Krajcik and Peter Bergman/ALP Gallery
Group exhibition, Im Regierungsviertel Gallery
Berlin | DE

Participating artists: Fia Backström, Lina Bjerneld, Anders Boqvist, Veronica Brovall, Josef Bull, Nadine Byrne, Thomas Elovsson, Charlotte Enström, Peter Ern, Lukas Göthman, Jacqueline Hoang Nguyen, Emil Holmer, Lisa Jeannin & Rolf Schuurmans, Ulf Khilander, Anna Kleberg, Jakob Krajcik, Klara Kristalova, Jenny Källman, Jenny Magnusson, Bo Melin, Andreas Nilsson, Jonas Nobel, Jockum Nordström, Anna Nyberg, Vera Sjunnesson, Linnea Sjöberg, Richard Sollman, Elvire Soyez, Pontus Stråhle, Jim Thorell and Cecilia Ömalm Krajcikova.

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February 5, 2010
Artist Talk, rum46
Århus | DK

Exhibition space rum46 is pleased to host the French Canadian born artist Jacqueline Hoang Nguyen and Danish yoga instructor Chris Nunan for a stimulating and entertaining artist talk. The artist will discuss her work For An Epidemic Resistance and will investigate how laughter can be understood as a form of resistance for freeing oneself from its social self, allocating the individual and the collective to reach an ephemeral in-between state. The talk will be concluded by a laughter Yoga workshop led by professional instructor Chris Nunan.

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November 23 – December 14, 2009
Artist-In-Residence, L'appartement 22
Rabat | MA

Located across from the Parliament, L’appartement 22 is the site from which the artist will observe the protests of sometimes bloody demonstrations between newly and often unemployed university graduates, and the local authorities. In response to the police brutality, the artist wishes to use the Swedish historical event of "Ådalen Shootings" (1931) as a conceptual framework in which to situate this research, with the possibility of acting with a sonic intervention.

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November 21, 2009 – January 24, 2010
Do you remember Olive Morris?
Exhibition with the Remembering Olive Collective (ROC)
Gasworks
London | UK

The exhibition Do you remember Olive Morris uncovers the largely untold history of Brixton-based activist Olive Morris (1952-1979). Initiated by London-based artist Ana Laura Lopez de la Torre and developed by the Remember Olive Collective (ROC), this exhibition is the culmination of three years of artists and community-led research inspired by this remarkable figure in South London’s recent history. The exhibition brings together art works, films and historical photographs documenting the movements and campaign groups with which Olive Morris was associated. My role in ROC was multifaceted. Alongside with organizing regular presentations and run fund raising activities at cultural and political events, festivals and fairs, I undertook an extensive online library project, including research in archives, and oral history interviews and transcriptions leading to the creation of the Olive Morris Collection, which is now available to the public at the Lambeth Archives in London.