Currents: Phnom Penh Art & Urban Festival
17 Mar - 7 Apr 2019
18 events at 13 venues across Phnom Penh city
Co-curators: Pen Sereypagna and Vuth Lyno
Film programmer: Daniel Mattes
Assistants: Diana Espiritu, Dom Sovandara and Pol Chan Trea
Chief curator: Sandy Hsiu-chih Lo
Currents is part of Topography of Mirror Cities
www.topographyofmirrorcities.org
Participating artists and projects: Arnont Nongyao (Thailand) & Khvay Loeung (Cambodia), Eng Rithchandaneth (Cambodia), Khvay Samnang (Cambodia), Hsu Chia-Wei (Taiwan), Nget Rady (Cambodia), Nipan Oranniwesna (Thailand), Primary Voice Project (Cambodia/USA/France), Project Little Dream & Architectural, Association School of Architecture (Cambodia/Hong Kong/UK), Prumsodun Ok & NATYARASA (Cambodia), RoungKon Project (Cambodia), Sao Sreymao (Cambodia), Savanhdary Vongpoothorn (Laos/Australia), Street Life Studies (Cambodia/Australia), Tan Vatey (Cambodia)
Participating filmmakers: Albert Samreth (Cambodia/USA), Danech San (Cambodia), Davy Chou (Cambodia/France), Douglas Seok (USA/Korea), John Torres (Philippines), Kavich Neang (Cambodia), Lei Yuan Bin (Singapore), Nguyen Trinh Thi (Vietnam), Pier Paolo Pasolini (Italy), Shireen Seno (Philippines), Sompot Chidgasornpongse (Thailand), Steve Chen (USA/Taiwan/Cambodia), Truong Minh Quy (Vietnam), Yeo Siew Hua (Singapore)
Participating speakers: Chhiv Exthai (Cambodia/Japan), Goh Sze Ying (Malaysia/Singapore), Manray Hsu (Taiwan), Sandy Hsiu-chih Lo (Taiwan)
Hosting partners: Alley lane of former Kim Son Cinema, Pisan Temple, Bophana, Cambodian Film Commission, Courtyard of former Tan Par Apartment, Dambaul, Hiroshima House, House #8B, St 308, Kan Len Khnhom, Legend Cinema, Paññāsāstra University of Cambodia, Shophouse #65 St 446, Tini
Currents is a collaboration between: Hyacinth Culture, Sa Sa Art Projects, The Vann Molyvann Project
Primary supports: National Culture and Arts Foundation (Taiwan), Rei Foundation
Additional supports: ENSCI - Les Ateliers, US Embassy, Phnom Penh, UNSW Sydney, Design Tribe Projects
Currents considers flows of interactions that are forming and being formed around the urban structure. More than physical flows, Currents constitutes movements of ideas, dialogues, anxieties, and desires. It looks at the communal and public spaces that shape our relationship among each other and with our neighbourhood and the city. It also considers how we remember the city through the way we build, dwell, and move. In other words, Currents considers the mobility and convergence through which the meaning of social relations, our subjectivities, and the city are produced.
Employing currents as both a generative methodology and a conceptual framework, Currents activates these mobility and convergence through a series of exhibitions, performances, workshops, colloquiums, and film screening programs, that take place in various kinds of spaces throughout Phnom Penh city. The interdisciplinary program brings together artists, architects, urbanists, performers, academics, students, filmmakers, and city residents to engage, share, and propose the ways we understand the communities and the cities we inhabit and ourselves, which are still in a process of forming and being formed.
