Phụ Lục Project

Phụ Lục, Sáu Múi, 2025, performance video installation. Image courtesy of Đặng Thuỳ Anh and Phụ Lục.

The Nguyen Art Foundation presents the Phụ Lục Project, a long term research and curatorial project initiated by Van Do. Founded in 2010, Hanoi, by six artists—Nguyen Huy An, Vu Duc Toan, Ngo Thanh Bac, Nguyen Van Song, Hoang Minh Duc, and Nguyen Duong Hai Dang—Phụ Lục is known for their idiosyncratic style of performance art. The collective explores personal concerns alongside social issues using abstract staging, allegorical everyday objects as props, as well as minimal yet potent gestures. Conceived as an open-access living archive, the project traces the collective Phụ Lục’s practice that is currently into its 15th year. The showcase seeks to position the collective within the history of performance art in Vietnam and Southeast Asia. At the same time, it unfolds as a critical, reflective space to consider how performance can be remembered, reimagined, and carried forward. To this end, this large-scale project is presented through a two-chapter exhibition format straddling two of the Nguyen Art Foundation’s venues. Its themes will also be extended through a series of public programmes, commissioned essays, and artistic responses.

Phụ Lục Project runs until May 2026 at two venues, EMASI Nam Long and EMASI Van Phuc, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, on different days.