Art Labor
Dublin Core
Title
Art Labor
Description
Art Labor will recreate a Hammock Café serving traditional Vietnamese coffee, akin to the many itinerant roadside-resting spots of the Central Highlands of Vietnam. The café will be a place for visitors to sit together, chat, rest, observe, think or simply pass time, alluding to the café culture central to Vietnamese daily life. The name Jarai Dew Hammock Café is an introduction into Art Labor’s long-term project. That takes inspiration from the Jarai people of Vietnam's Central Highlands and their philosophy on the cycle of life. After death, humans will go through many stages to get back to their origins of existence. The final stage is that they transform into dew (ia ngôm in Jarai language) evaporating into the environment – a state of non-being – the beginning particles of a new existence.
Date
1 December – 13 December 2015
Contributor
Coverage
Residency Item Type Metadata
Short Description
Art Labor will recreate a Hammock Café serving traditional Vietnamese coffee, akin to the many itinerant roadside-resting spots of the Central Highlands of Vietnam.
Cycle
Location
Onsite (CCA)
Collaboration
No
Commissioned Work
No
Files
Collection
Citation
“Art Labor,” NTU CCA Singapore Digital Archive, accessed April 22, 2025, https://ntuccasingapore.omeka.net/items/show/1228.
Item Relations
Item: Residencies Insights: Art Labor (Vietnam) and Amy Lien & Enzo Camacho (New York/Manila) | Is Part Of | This Item |
Item: Art Labor | References | This Item |