Undecided Productions is an arts organisation guided by Elise Hong Anh Luong. Working across Europe, Vietnam, and Australia we support allied artists, writers, designers, and researchers by initiating and collaborating on a multitude of projects from residencies, to publications, performances, and gatherings.
Undecided Productions is the structure by which we offer space, time, and resources to our human and non-human friends as we explore our focus topics of environmental and gender politics. Our projects are how we question, how we listen to, and challenge the status quo.
Undecided Productions is a registered Belgian not-for-profit association (ASBL) since 2017, in Vietnam held a representational International Non-Government Organisation office from 2023 to 2026, and is currently opening projects in Australia.
Undecided Productions is essentially a collection of interdependent artistic projects, values, and celebratory moments involving many people, much wine, and many many conversations.
HISTORY
Undecided Productions was originally a side project attached to Undecided Magasine - a bilingual music agenda zine that took months of Bruxellois plotting and planning over many inebriated evenings. Articles were written, maquettes produced, interviews held…but lo and behold, for reasons of the heart, the zine never saw the light of day.
UP survived under my watchful eye, and from 2012 - 2017 we organised an array of contemporary art projects and events in unique spaces across Europe. Showcasing visual and performing arts there was a focus on “experience” based work that took importance within space and time structures. We were raunchy, rowdy, and wild. Collaborations with fellow arts organisations and the use of public space was highlighted during this period ending with a year’s occupation of the street-window exhibition space HIDDEN, a space we were politely asked to vacate after neighbourhood complaints.
In 2016 I moved to Vietnam, and as the main project initiator I took UPs winds with me. Asia saw a shift in focus and Undecided moved from being event-based, to supporting mainly artistic research and cultural exchange initiatives. The sense of rebellion felt more profound and calculated, as we tried to understand and hack structural systems, whilst going to great lengths to celebrate friendships old and new. The central initiative during this chapter was the live.make.share residency project, in collaboration with Hiên Vân Ceramics, that invited artists to experience life and work in the Vietnamese countryside.
Today I am sitting in Meanjin (Brisbane, Australia). Over the past year life has drastically changed and Undecided enters middle-age with me. We have enjoyed / been forced through a quietly radical restructuring that has questioned mine and the organisation's values, priorities, mission, and focus. This new vantage point of Austra-urban tropics seems unfamiliar and fragile as we lean into a new chapter of exploration and curiosity.
Undecided Productions still lay dreaming. And after nearly 15 years of existence we are excited for new chapters of work and play and we continue to co-create projects that creatively connect our heart homes in Europe, Vietnam, and Australia.
Please reach out to us if you want to share your work! We are always interested in meeting new humans.