Visiting Bat Trang Ceramic Village with NAME Art Space

Bat Trang ceramic & pottery village is on the left bank of Hong river and about 10 km from Hanoi in East (in Gia Lam District, Hanoi). This ceramic & pottery village is an interesting attraction in Hanoi that tourists should not ignore. It is the most ancient and famous ceramic & pottery village of Vietnam and is constantly developing.

Ash Tray

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1-2-3 Start making ceramic items

3 Pro ceramic artists

Colouring after drying

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Girls we met at the same workshop, they make faces that look so much alike their faces... So good!

A youtube video.

Shooting for Multimedia Poetry on Friday 27th 2012

First shooting day for Multimedia Poetry project by Susmita Paul and Vuong Bich Ngoc on Friday 27th 2012

Sundays @ 12 noon

Some nights the elbow stretches straight, running
Over the edge –
A perfect tout feeling at the shoulder
The elbow angled at that perfect degree
Inwards and paused. The palms meet gravity,

Hanging
Half open unlaced mushthi*1. No cribbing
In dreams. I carried the hundred bells threaded to the feet
Half across the globe, and then retraced;
Spaces between them widening, emptying
With the moon-tides. The mirror

Still
Has a say. Hypnosis I dream. It
Tugs and pulls and draws me into
That hall. No one sees, no one feels. Ghost-busting
Is not their call. Only once your eyes

Fall
On the mirror. The bells make a call. Did you feel
The glass quivering? I spread my feet
Across the new floor, unable
To remember the position I take

Ardhamandala
Purnamandala
Sthanaka*2

*1 mushthi is a hand gesture used in Bharatnatyam, an Indian classical dance. It means ‘closed fist’.
*2 ardhamandala, purnamandala and sthanaka are the three different positions of standing in Bharatnatyam.

© Susmita Paul 2012



Indian traditional dance by Namrata Gupta at Natarani Theater, Ahmedabad, India

Sketchy days with Artists @ NAME | Art Space

Enjoying happy days at NAME 's Art creativity space. Sketching, relaxing, outdoor activities with NAME | Art Space - Artist Residency - Vietnam

Enjoying at the floating house on Red River

View of Long Bien Bridge

Three lovely ladies

24H Hoan Kiem Lake Project with Arena Multimedia

NAME | Art Space is an artist-led space for Artist Residency, Contemporary Art, Lacquer painting, Bilingual Poetry & promoting Cultural exchange. Writers, sculpture, designers, photographer, art lovers, art buyers can come, explore, experience & get involved with us.

On 13/7/2012, Arena Multimedia students had a very interesting & interactive discussion with NAME | Art Space and its members.

NAME | Art Space shared some ideas with the students and among which, there is a new idea named '24 hours Hoan Kiem Lake Project'. The project will be carried out by 24 groups of students. Each group will capture moments with their cameras, camcorder or paintings... around Hoan Kiem lake in 24 hours.

Min-hyung Kang, a Fine Arts student at the University of Tokyo shared her experiences with art, advertisement with Arena students. Tran Dan also asked the student to be a little crazy and never let the fire stop in their heart.

At the end of the discussion, many students were excited about this future project. More details of the project will be discussed with Arena managers and published on the website soon.

Violet

I think there is hardly any other You asked if I wrote
I didn’t want to put this down
As I know it would be violet
The color of the forget-me-not
The kind of flower I plan to put on my tomb
The day I come home

Who would bring flower
To their death
Right before
They leave
But I
Have the forget-me-not
Only some minutes
Before entering the road

I am ready to feel my knees
Scratch on the road
At this speed
I am not sure if I can fly
I am sure I am flying
And it would set free
My soul from my body

People would find me: “Bleeding, breathless…”
“Holding the flower… in violet…”

A poem by VBN from NAME | Art Space