Today Dispatch meets one of the earliest Post Doi Moi era investors in Vietnam - Dominic Scriven. Scriven has also been involved in other lesser-known streams of art and culture in Vietnam. In this episode, Dispatch host, Arlette Quynh-Anh Tran chats with him about his first arrival in Vietnam at the beginning of 1990s, how he started to engage with Vietnam, first through the language and then through the rapid changes of the country for nearly three decades. Scriven's local involvement has expanded into a wide range of activities, from the establishment of the new free-market economic structure to the collection of literature and propaganda posters, from wildlife conservation to contemporary art.

Today Dispatch meets one of the earliest Post Doi Moi era investors in Vietnam - Dominic Scriven. Scriven has also been involved in other lesser-known streams of art and culture in Vietnam. In this episode, Dispatch host, Arlette Quynh-Anh Tran chats with him about his first arrival in Vietnam at the beginning of 1990s, how he started to engage with Vietnam, first through the language and then through the rapid changes of the country for nearly three decades. Scriven's local involvement has expanded into a wide range of activities, from the establishment of the new free-market economic structure to the collection of literature and propaganda posters, from wildlife conservation to contemporary art.

Today Dispatch meets with one of the most established contemporary artists of Vietnamese descent – Tuan Andrew Nguyen welcomes host Arlette Quynh-Anh Tran at his studio and home, a beautifully redesigned tube house, nestled among the cherished Saigon alleys. 

In this episode, listeners have a chance to learn about not only Tuan Andrew’s personal influences, educational background, refugee childhood, collaborations, and friendships; but also his thoughtful contemplation about objecthood, reincarnation, and disrupting the meta-history through apocalyptic imagination. 

Today Dispatch meets with one of the most established contemporary artists of Vietnamese descent – Tuan Andrew Nguyen welcomes host Arlette Quynh-Anh Tran at his studio and home, a beautifully redesigned tube house, nestled among the cherished Saigon alleys. 

In this episode, listeners have a chance to learn about not only Tuan Andrew’s personal influences, educational background, refugee childhood, collaborations, and friendships; but also his thoughtful contemplation about objecthood, reincarnation, and disrupting the meta-history through apocalyptic imagination. 

Today we meet art auction expert Rishika Assomull – Deputy Director at Sotheby’s Hong Kong. This very special occasion comes after multiple record-breaking sales of Vietnamese modernist artworks which took place on Sunday, April 18 at Sotheby’s.  In this episode, Rishika will provide us exclusive access to many exciting stories and information about that Modern Art Evening Sale in Hong Kong, and more broadly about the rise of Vietnamese modernist art market, its challenges, and future prospects. 

Today we meet art auction expert Rishika Assomull – Deputy Director at Sotheby’s Hong Kong. This very special occasion comes after multiple record-breaking sales of Vietnamese modernist artworks which took place on Sunday, April 18 at Sotheby’s.  In this episode, Rishika will provide us exclusive access to many exciting stories and information about that Modern Art Evening Sale in Hong Kong, and more broadly about the rise of Vietnamese modernist art market, its challenges, and future prospects. 

Host Arlette Quynh-Anh Tran meets visual artist Thinh Nguyen, based in Los Angeles but speaking today from Upstate New York, by the Hudson River, the end destination of their road trip across America. In this episode of Dispatch, listen to Thinh’s many stories, from a childhood in the Vietnamese countryside to American survival and life as an artist. In which, they reveal their use of different personas, between normal life and staged durational performances, as a strategy for queer Asian Americans like them to navigate and communicate with their surroundings.

Host Arlette Quynh-Anh Tran meets visual artist Thinh Nguyen, based in Los Angeles but speaking today from Upstate New York, by the Hudson River, the end destination of their road trip across America. In this episode of Dispatch, listen to Thinh’s many stories, from a childhood in the Vietnamese countryside to American survival and life as an artist. In which, they reveal their use of different personas, between normal life and staged durational performances, as a strategy for queer Asian Americans like them to navigate and communicate with their surroundings.

In this episode, Arlette Quynh-Anh Tran speaks with Zoe Butt – a curator and writer who has called Vietnam her home for more than a decade. In this Dispatch episode, listeners learn about Zoe’s upbringing in Australia, her first encounter with curating, her observations of Saigon, and how personal interdependence can be seen as a motto in her own practice. Zoe Butt is the Artistic Director of the Factory Contemporary Arts Centre and previously led at Sàn Art. Zoe’s curatorial practice centres on building critical thinking and historically conscious artistic communities, fostering dialogue among cultures of the globalizing south.

On this episode of Dispatch, host Arlette Quynh-Anh Tran talks with not only one but two exciting guests. Namely artists Nguyen Hoang Giang and Pham Ha Ninh. These millennial artists may not feel as connected to their colleagues born in the early 1980s but they are able to explore the grey space between the world before the Internet and into the present internet-dominated era of Gen z. Dispatch will follow their special friendship and discuss how they see themselves, as part of the young, Vietnamese artist generation seeking an independent voice that leaps away from assumed frameworks concerning national identity and historical inheritance.