Van Thanh Rudd

Van Thanh Rudd is a visual artist and social justice activist based in Melbourne. He is currently doing a PhD at the Centre for Ideas (Victorian College of the Arts) on the topic of football (soccer), art and activism. He is campaigns coordinator in the VCA Student Association, and has incorporated his art into various protest movements and boycott campaigns. Visit van-thanh-rudd.net/ to see his work.

Articles by Van Thanh Rudd:

24 February 201410 March 2014

The case for boycotting the Biennale

Van Thanh Rudd

In 2012, I set fire to one of my sculptures on the bank of the Yarra River, in Melbourne’s CBD. It was a sort of rapid response to the knowledge that multi-billion dollar company Transfield had just received a $24.5 million contract from the Labor government to provide refugee detention centre services and infrastructure on the island of Nauru.