"TOUCH - VIBRATION" PERFORMANCE
VCCA proudly presents "Touch - Vibration", a series of impromptu interactive performances taking place in the exhibition space "Xe Đạp Ơi" by Vietnamese-born French artist Thu Van Tran, with the music of the performer Bui Linh Ha and the voice of stage artist Nguyen Hoa My.
Blended in nostalgia is not only memory of an individual but also of humanity, resulted from collision and mingle of stories and emotions, including obsessive rubber plantations, the traumatic Agent Orange, the continuation of the deadlock between the two historical periods, expectations and despair...
The installations of Thu Van Tran, thus, also evokes memories of Marguerite Duras in her novel "A dam against the Pacific", which will be used as material for the interactive performance by artists Linh Ha and Hoa My.
The two artists will improvise with the words in the novel imbued with gentle but also intense memories of colonial Indochina by famous French writer Marguerite Duras.
A narrator and a singer, through personal lenses, mingling with the memories of Thu Van Tran and Duras. The performance opens an interactive space between various materials: body, voice, utterance and electronic music. Hoa My and Linh Ha will not only improvise with the memories of Thu Van Tran and words of Duras, but also with each other and viewers of the exhibition.
After all, "Exhibition is for people to live and share more than to see" (Artist Thu Van Tran).
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Nguyen Hoa My (1989) graduated with a BA in French Literature from the University of Paris - Sorbonne and was directly trained in drama by stage director Quentin Delorme. Since 2016, she has been performing in drama and improvisation theatres in two languages - French and Vietnamese. In 2017, she co-founded the ViPlayback group, one of the very few groups of artists who practice the kind of Reproduction Theatre (a branch of improvisation theatre) in Vietnam. Hoa My also participates in teaching for children at ATH - Drama and Arts Space founded by artist Quentin Delorme.
Linh Ha (1991) uses her voice, various percussive instruments, and a looper to create layered soundscapes. Incorporating elements from traditional Vietnamese vocal techniques, personal lyrical content and myriad influences - from pop to avant-garde to techno - her music ranges from dense, lush harmonies to sampled sizzling noise to gently ebbing hopeful lullabies. Her work has primarily occurred in the live realm and she has collaborated with numerous artists, both Vietnamese and foreign, who have lived, worked, or traveled through her hometown of Hanoi.
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Touch - Vibration | Interactive performances series at the Exhibition “Xe Đạp Ơi”
Time:
17:30-18:30 | Friday December 14, 2018
14:30-15:30 | Every Saturday from December 22, 2018 to February 2, 2019
Venue: Vincom Center for Contemporary Art (VCCA)
Floor B1-R3, Vincom Mega Mall Royal City, 72A Nguyen Trai, Thanh Xuan, Hanoi
