by Mogas Station - 2006

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Ạart is a publication which aims to be socially useful. The main goals of Ạart are to succeed in improving the quality of cultural discourse and exchange of information within Vietnam while sharing Vietnam’s own contemporary arts practice with a larger international audience. To meet these goals, the publication is bilingual in English and Vietnamese.

On the surface, Ạart is arranged like a popular culture magazine. Yet its accessible and contemporary appearance camouflages a serious choice of texts and images dealing with many fields of contemporary creation in the visual and graphic arts, literature, music, cinema, fashion design and architecture. Ạart aims to be a starting point for a more critical dialogue about arts and culture, providing ideas both within Vietnam and beyond.

Each volume of Ạart will respond to a central idea with specially commissioned art works and articles. The topic for the premiere issue is “Camouflage”. This issue has been published in collaboration with Singapore Biennale 2006 and Goethe Institut, Hanoi. It has been presented for the Singapore Biennale 2006 and then launched at the Goethe Institut, Hanoi, in November 2006.