Performances > Diasporic Sound Gathering

At Kunstverein Hannover, I collaborated with Shiwen Wang to develop a live sound work in conversation with Sung Tieu’s installation presented as part of the ars viva Prize for Visual Arts exhibition. Tieu’s practice, shaped by her family history between Vietnam and Germany, addresses cultural ambivalence through steel engravings, astrological systems, and sound.

Our engagement with the work was informed by our own experiences of movement and displacement. From my perspective, this included biographical ties spanning Mongolia, China, and Germany, and an ongoing negotiation of belonging across these contexts. Approaching the project through this lens, Shiwen and I treated the performance as a parallel articulation—one that engages questions of migration, identity, and dissonance through sound, listening, and embodied presence. The resulting work unfolded as a layered sonic encounter that stood alongside Tieu’s installation, extending the dialogue across practices, geographies, and lived experience.