Dao Anh Khanh & Tamas Jovanovics 'HANOI DUCKS' (work title) PUBLIC ART PROJECT - in order to seek general awareness for ecological topics in Hanoi/Vietnam
Project status: seeking for fundings
Background of the project:
After a long period of poverty and economical occlusion, Vietnam is currently experiencing an unprecedented economical growth. People enjoy the newly available goods and services but are hardly aware of the ecological consequences that come with the growth of the industry and the high amount of consumption. For example, with the millions of scooters and the ever growing number of cars, Hanoi becomes always more polluted; if this tendency is not reversed soon, it will create a complex series of serious issues that will be tough to control/rectify afterwards (affecting general sense of well-being, quality of everyday life, people's working ability, huge amounts to be spent on health-care, and so on, it is a vicious circle).
Dao Anh Khanh, an established Vietnamese artist from Hanoi, together with Tamas Jovanovics, a London based European artist have elaborated a charming, playful public art project in order to awake public awareness for ecological thinking. Next to being a tool to create awareness for the importance of dealing in a responsible way with nature and ecological issues within the urban landscape, the project is also thought to become a potential landmark for Hanoi, a constantly moving/changing urban installation that will be enjoyable to watch and to be around.
Ecology is one of the most difficult topics to get through to public opinion as it is not affecting people's life in a direct manner (pollution for example creates diseases and maladies not in the short but in the medium and long term). Therefore we think that it is appropriate to try to get people's attention in an indirect way, through a large scale urban-artistic project that people will first of all enjoy to watch and to be part of. Further on, through workshops and live performances linked with the installation, we will aim to talk also more directly about the ecological topics that are the most relevant in Hanoi's and Vietnam's case.
Description of the project:
Imagine a lake full of toy ducks.
A decade ago and before, when scooters and cars were rather a rarity in Hanoi, migrant ducks were invading the Tay (West) Lake each time they would undertake their move form the north to the south and vice versa. Nowadays the wandering ducks avoid by far the lakes of Hanoi.
Dao Anh Khanh and Tamas Jovanovics's project foresees to fill one of Hanoi's many lakes, preferably the Truc Bach or the Hoan Kiem lake, with thousands of toy ducks. The toy ducks would gently float and move on the surface of the water depending on the current wind conditions.
The prototype of the toy ducks would be sculpted by the artists and then moulded and reproduced with an ecological technology. The toy ducks would be close to life-size, their colour would vary.
We think that an urban lake full of thousands of toy ducks could become an attraction. Toy ducks are generally accessories of children's' bathtub. Exposed and multiplied at such a large scale, they could add a significant amount of charm to the urban context and become an interesting landmark (a huge mobile sculpture) that would attract tourists just like locals.
Once the installation is set, we would like to organize workshops and live performances on and around the lake by inviting local and international scientists and artists to express their views on ecological topics.
The first such event would be a live event by the artist Dao Anh Khanh, presenting one of his famous vocal performances sitting in a small boat that moves slowly whilst surrounded by the multitude of the toy ducks on the lake.
In order to realize this project we aim to:
1) receive the local authorities' support and permission. 2) seek for eventually interested institutions, companies and individuals to sponsor the project.
We hope you find the project worth to consider positively. If you are interested in helping in any way to make it happen, please get in contact with us via email or telephone. You can write to Jenny Ikelberg (ennyikelberg@hotmail.com) or Tamas Jovanovics (tjovanovics@gmail.com) or call Dao Anh Khanh at the following number: ....................................
We are respectfully looking forward to hearing from you.
Best Regards
Dao Anh Khanh & Tamas Jovanovics
Dao Anh Khanh & Tamas Jovanovics 'HANOI DUCKS' (work title) PUBLIC ART PROJECT - in order to seek general awareness for ecological topics in Hanoi/Vietnam
Project status: seeking for fundings
Background of the project:
After a long period of poverty and economical occlusion, Vietnam is currently experiencing an unprecedented economical growth. People enjoy the newly available goods and services but are hardly aware of the ecological consequences that come with the growth of the industry and the high amount of consumption. For example, with the millions of scooters and the ever growing number of cars, Hanoi becomes always more polluted; if this tendency is not reversed soon, it will create a complex series of serious issues that will be tough to control/rectify afterwards (affecting general sense of well-being, quality of everyday life, people's working ability, huge amounts to be spent on health-care, and so on, it is a vicious circle).
Dao Anh Khanh, an established Vietnamese artist from Hanoi, together with Tamas Jovanovics, a London based European artist have elaborated a charming, playful public art project in order to awake public awareness for ecological thinking. Next to being a tool to create awareness for the importance of dealing in a responsible way with nature and ecological issues within the urban landscape, the project is also thought to become a potential landmark for Hanoi, a constantly moving/changing urban installation that will be enjoyable to watch and to be around.
Ecology is one of the most difficult topics to get through to public opinion as it is not affecting people's life in a direct manner (pollution for example creates diseases and maladies not in the short but in the medium and long term). Therefore we think that it is appropriate to try to get people's attention in an indirect way, through a large scale urban-artistic project that people will first of all enjoy to watch and to be part of. Further on, through workshops and live performances linked with the installation, we will aim to talk also more directly about the ecological topics that are the most relevant in Hanoi's and Vietnam's case.
Description of the project:
Imagine a lake full of toy ducks.
A decade ago and before, when scooters and cars were rather a rarity in Hanoi, migrant ducks were invading the Tay (West) Lake each time they would undertake their move form the north to the south and vice versa. Nowadays the wandering ducks avoid by far the lakes of Hanoi.
Dao Anh Khanh and Tamas Jovanovics's project foresees to fill one of Hanoi's many lakes, preferably the Truc Bach or the Hoan Kiem lake, with thousands of toy ducks. The toy ducks would gently float and move on the surface of the water depending on the current wind conditions.
The prototype of the toy ducks would be sculpted by the artists and then moulded and reproduced with an ecological technology. The toy ducks would be close to life-size, their colour would vary.
We think that an urban lake full of thousands of toy ducks could become an attraction. Toy ducks are generally accessories of children's' bathtub. Exposed and multiplied at such a large scale, they could add a significant amount of charm to the urban context and become an interesting landmark (a huge mobile sculpture) that would attract tourists just like locals.
Once the installation is set, we would like to organize workshops and live performances on and around the lake by inviting local and international scientists and artists to express their views on ecological topics.
The first such event would be a live event by the artist Dao Anh Khanh, presenting one of his famous vocal performances sitting in a small boat that moves slowly whilst surrounded by the multitude of the toy ducks on the lake.
In order to realize this project we aim to:
1) receive the local authorities' support and permission. 2) seek for eventually interested institutions, companies and individuals to sponsor the project.
We hope you find the project worth to consider positively. If you are interested in helping in any way to make it happen, please get in contact with us via email or telephone. You can write to Jenny Ikelberg (ennyikelberg@hotmail.com) or Tamas Jovanovics (tjovanovics@gmail.com) or call Dao Anh Khanh at the following number: ....................................
We are respectfully looking forward to hearing from you.
Best Regards
Dao Anh Khanh & Tamas Jovanovics