Art Labor

Art Labor is an artist group based in Ho Chi Minh City, consisting of Truong Cong Tung, Thao-Nguyen Phan, and Arlette Quynh-Anh Tran. The group organizes work between visual artists, social scientists, and life scientists in various public contexts and locales. The group’s artistic practices address various socio-political issues in Vietnamese society, from environmental degradation to indigenous rights and post-colonial narratives through relational installations, moving images, and social interventions.

Since 2012, Art Labor has developed many year-long journeys to cultivate artistic work for the sake of the environment, various local communities, and indigenous ethnic groups across Vietnam. Throughout the year, new collaborators and/or mentors are routinely added as partners to the collective, varying from filmmakers, writers, visual artists, architects to farmers, folk artists, patients, scientists, and doctors. These longterm projects are transformed into gallery shows around the world, getting narratives from local and indigenous communities out to a wide audience. Their has been displayed in major museums in Belgium, Thailand, Poland, France, Taiwan, Korea, Singapore and locally in Vietnam.