{"id":91,"name":"Van Pham","url":"","description":"Van is an artist and administrator from Portland, Oregon via Reno, Nevada. Her artwork is concerned with how people occupy space and cooperate to make meaning in them, exploring spiritual practices and ritual through community gatherings and online collections of trends in adaptive reuse. She is often trying to strike a balance as performer and a programmer - she has toured the U.S. with her band; contributed to the Xhurch artist collective that has exhibited installations along the West Coast; and co-runs the website (and documentary film project) Xhurches, devoted to profiling the secular uses of religious buildings. Van curates a series of interdisciplinary performances at a church venue and other sites in Portland; assembles artists and scholars to lecture on technology and spirit in modern times as a programmer for the Portland Center for the Public Humanities; and works as the coordinator for the Portland Institute for Contemporary Art\u2019s residency program, the Creative Exchange Lab. Van was recently admitted into the MA program in Cultural Policy, Relations,and Diplomacy at Goldsmiths College of London, where she will be exploring more work around culture, people, and places.","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/fieldnotes\/author\/van-pham\/","slug":"van-pham","avatar_urls":{"24":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/43b5de9faa8b40d60d5dd0639626713c0f9e144d9f1c6ef22b1ef5df6a8c7b38?s=24&d=mm&r=g","48":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/43b5de9faa8b40d60d5dd0639626713c0f9e144d9f1c6ef22b1ef5df6a8c7b38?s=48&d=mm&r=g","96":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/43b5de9faa8b40d60d5dd0639626713c0f9e144d9f1c6ef22b1ef5df6a8c7b38?s=96&d=mm&r=g","128":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/43b5de9faa8b40d60d5dd0639626713c0f9e144d9f1c6ef22b1ef5df6a8c7b38?s=128&d=mm&r=g"},"meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/fieldnotes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/91","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/fieldnotes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users"}]}}