The Project VIETNAM ROOT is dedicated to select secular and monumental trees survived, witness of time, present in the city of Hanoi and in the countryside in the North of the country. Promote cross cultural exchange with the slogan "Now Art Move East - NAME". NAME | Art Space wants to create a common community through diverse perspectives and new ideas. Our multi-talented members inspire to bring together artistic culture worldwide. NAME | Art Space, an artist-led space for art activities like Art Projects | Arrange Workshops | Traditional Vietnamese Lacquer Paintings | Bilingual Poetry | Arrange Art Gallery | Host Exhibitions | Exchange Ideas through International Artist Residency | Arts 4 Kids | Art 4 Locals. Individuals from all creative community including writers, sculpture, designers, photographer and artists can apply for our projects and residency programs. From artist, to art lover, to art buyer, we encourage everyone to explore, experience and get involved with us. https://www.facebook.com/NAME.Art.Space http://www.flickr.com/photos/name-art-space/ http://www.youtube.com/user/TheNAMESPACETV https://plus.google.com/103654086670565545767 http://www.slideshare.net/NAME-Art-Space http://www.nameartspace.com http://twitter.com/NameArtSpace

1. VIETNAM ROOT
By NAME | Art Space

2. Content
About NAME | Art Space
About Rootman Tiziano Fratus
About VIETNAM ROOT Project

3. About NAME | Art Space
• Established in early 2012, NAME | Art
Space is currently working on different
art projects as:
– Lacquer Workshop & Residency – Jan
2012 – End 2013
– Multimedia Poetry Collection 1 – April
2012 – November 2012
– VIETNAM ROOT – Photography and
Book – June 2012 – End 2013
– I AM BORN AS… – A documentary on
gender choice – July 2012 – December
2012
– Drawing classes for KIDS – Regularly
from June 2012

4. About NAME | Art Space
• NAME is an artist-led space for art activities,
exhibition, workshop, and residency for
international artists to work and exchange
ideas.
• NAME aims to support young artists to
practice forms of art such as multimedia art,
public and community based art,
performance, environmental, installation and
other experimental cultural forms.
• NAME will help increase the interest in art
among local community through free
classes to kids

5. Aims and Objectives
• To support, develop and promote new and young artists to work and
experiment contemporary art
• To enhance cultural understanding and encourage the exchange of ideas
by Vietnam and International artists through workshop, exhibition and other
activities with the slogan “Now Arts Move East - NAME”
• To inspire interest among the local community for Art through education,
workshop, exhibition, art talk, seminars...

6. Lacquer studio
• NAME provides special workshop, studio, materials and equipment for
making traditional Vietnamese lacquer paintings and art

7. Location
• NAME is situated in an ancient village of Sui, Gia Lam, Hanoi, with many
historical and cultural heritage, NAME enjoys the typical friendly
atmosphere of fields, temples, pagodas and people

8. About A ROOTMAN &
A TREE SEEKER
Tiziano Fratus (1975) is a walker, a tree seeker, a photographer, a
writer, a scholar of landscapes, a designer of routes, a popularize.
He has published books and notebooks dedicated to trips and
wanderings in the Italian Landscape, from the north of the Country,
on the Alps, to the Southern Islands as Sicily and Sardinia, from the
biggest Towns as Rome, Milan, Turin and Genoa to the little villages
of the Provinces.
Fratus works on a new form of identity, both local and international, through the
evaluation of the heritage and secular trees in his region, the Piedmont (north west
of Italy), his country and the world.
He works to create a new simple way to feel as humans proud to live and work in a
local regional part of the Earth and in the meanwhile on the whole planet.
His poetry has been translated in several languages and presented in Italian
Cultural Institutes in north America, Europe and South East Asia.

9. TIZIANO FRATUS

10. Photographs

11. Photographs

12. Books
From the book Homo Radix. Appunti per un cercatore di alberi (A Root Man. Notes
for a Tree Seeker) Translated by Daniela Filippin
«I am a root-man. I am a man who has moved around in order to grow and forget
his first set of roots. I am a man who has uprooted himself and has wandered
around until he found new roots. I’m a man who has stopped in order to move
ahead again. A man who has set down new roots. I’m a man who has woken up as
a tree with leaves treeing themselves in the breath of the wind, picking up stories
carried and conveyed by other creatures. I am a root man who finds joy and peace
in his new patch. I am a man who has found his roots by travelling the world.»

13. The project ROOT – Brief
TO BE A ROOTMAN OR A ROOTWOMAN, A ROOTBOY OR A ROOTGIRL
(Homo Radix – Phoemina Radix – Puer Radix – Puera Radix)
•Everyone could be a Rootboy or a Rootgirl, a Rootman or a Rootwoman, a person
who try to identify his / her roots, physically and theoretically, literary and materially.
Roots are something changing, everyday they acquire colors, dimensions,
peculiarities that modify the identity of this Human Being. So every Man and every
Woman is so full of Roots!
•A Rootman is an individual who decide to cultivate his imaginary and physical
identity. Every Green Space could be this Landscape: the park in your town, the
garden of your house, the forest on the Alps or in Alaska.
•This is a way to enhance personally and socially the biodiversity of our landscape,
to discover what we consider expectable, not so important, only a Tree or only a
Park. This is a way to begin a long trip that is so full of elements, creatures, to
understand history of our land, our province, our region or State. A research that
make you more rooted in the land you live, you work, you love.
•In that way your Roots will be so strong, so wide and so full of imagination and
energy.

14. VIETNAM ROOT
Discover a new Vietnam, after 30 years of devastation and
the long period of rebuilding, a place of enchanted nature.
•The Project VIETNAM ROOT is dedicated to select
secular and monumental trees survived, witness of time,
present in the city of Hanoi and in the countryside in the
North of the country.
•A campaign of treegraphies will give us a map of some of
the big trees living in Vietnam, as in the historical park Cuc
Phuong and other reservoirs.
•This map and the notes about the travel will be published
in a book in three languages (English, Vietnamese, Italian),
defining new paths for tourists and for the local
appreciation.
•An exhibition of pictures will be held in the space of NAME
| Art Space or relevant locations, photos printed in a
classic black & white colors.

15. THE PROCESS
In Vietnam, the project will be done with another Vietnamese ROOTMAN,
another tree seeker, another photographer. As a tropical country, Vietnam
has many natural reserved areas. Beside, Vietnam has its custom of
remembering the root, the origin, the ancient. This will be a good time for
introducing the tradition and nature of Vietnam to the world through the view
of both ROOTMEN, one from Europe, one from Vietnam.

16. THE PROCESS
•Call for application – June & Aug 2012 - Choosing Vietnamese
ROOTMAN: From the website of NAME | Art Space and other media
channels, interested photographers, travellers…
•Shortlist and finalize ROOTMAN – Sep 2012 - Among the applications,
NAME | Art Space will finalize 1 or 2 candidates to join the project.
•Prepare for the project – Oct 2012 – Feb 2013 - The ROOTMAN, Tiziano
Fratus, and the Vietnamese ROOTPERSON will work together to find all
locations and trees in the North of Vietnam (up to Da Nang) and map out the
route and plan to go.
* Due to objective reasons like weather, travelling conditions, the time for the main
part of going and shooting can be changed.

17. THE PROCESS
•The main part of the project – Mar 2013 - The two ROOTMEN will go for a
month to shoot trees and write about the places and map out the route for
tree seeker.
•Photo exhibition & Artist Talk – April 2013 - After coming back, photos
from both ROOTMEN will be exhibited and an artist talk will be organized for
the ROOTMEN to share their journey.
•Book release – 2013 - After this, the ROOTMEN will work on the book it will
be translated into English and Vietnamese and be published in 2013.
* Due to objective reasons like weather, travelling conditions, the time for the main
part of going and shooting can be changed.

18. Contact
Ms. Vuong Bich Ngoc
NAME | Art Space
www.nameartspace.com
www.facebook.com/NAME.Art.Space
www.twitter.com/NameArtSpace
(0903 299 510)
vuongngoc.bts@gmail.com
nameartspace@gmail.com