The second edition of the Copyright Agency Partnerships Commission, supporting mid-career and established visual artists to produce a major new commission, Open Glossary is a new exhibition in which James Nguyen will collaborate with Tamsen Hopkinson, Budi Sudarto, Kate ten Buuren and Chris Xu on a multi-lingual installation presented across ACCA’s gallery spaces.
Born in Vietnam and based in Naarm/Melbourne, James Nguyen’s interdisciplinary practice examines strategies of decolonisation, while also interrogating the politics of family history, language, displacement and diaspora. Open Glossary probes the language and terminologies that permeate contemporary art and society more widely. Nguyen and collaborators present dynamic installations, videos, performances and events that foster multi-lingual conversations on a range of contemporary issues, including Land Rights and Indigenous Constitutional Recognition, gender diversity and sexual identity, and the linguistic links and spiritual connections of Southeast Asia, First Nations Australian and Moana neighbours.
This project is presented in partnership with the Copyright Agency as part of the 2023 Copyright Agency Partnership.
Curator: Shelley McSpedden
Location
ACCA
111 Sturt Street, Southbank Melbourne, VIC 3006, Australia
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