Sung Tieu
Residency period
21 October – 4 December 2019
About
The artistic practice of Sung Tieu (b. 1987, Vietnam/Germany/United Kingdom) spans a variety of mediums including sound installation, video, sculpture, photography, performance, and public interventions. In her work, she contends with notions of history and analyses transnational movements of people and capitals. Forthcoming solo exhibitions will be held at Haus der Kunst, Munich, Germany and Nottingham Contemporary, United Kingdom (both 2020). Other forthcoming projects will be featured at Tate Modern and David Roberts Art Foundation (both London, United Kingdom, 2019), and the Prague Biennale (2020). She has had solo exhibitions at FRAGILE, Berlin, Germany (2019); Royal Academy of Arts, London, United Kingdom (2018); and Nha San Collective, Hanoi, Vietnam (2017).
Focus
Tangled with her own experience of migration, cultural collision, and displacement, the works of Sung Tieu often elicit a variety of sensorial engagements. During the residency, the artist plans to explore the sonic environment of Singapore guided by the following questions: What is the soundscape of a financial capital that trades mostly in abstract exchange rather than in material production? Who occupies public space and in what acoustic proportion? How do aural economies affect the multi-species inhabitants of the city on physical, psychological, and emotional levels? How does sound convey different political and environmental climates? Her investigation on the sounds of contemporary Singapore will also encompass instances of oral communication that operate in a multicultural context characterised by a large linguistic diversity. For this long-term project, Tieu intends to explore the acoustic ecology of several urban soundscapes, extending her research in Vietnam and, possibly, other Southeast Asian countries.
Residencies brochure (October – December 2019)
Image credit: Sung Tieu, No Gods, No Masters, 2017, 19:13 min HD video, 4 channel sound, video still. Courtesy the artist.
Public programmes
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Central to the artistic practice of Sung Tieu is a personal experience of migration from Vietnam to Germany which impels her to address Post-Cold War histories and the multiple negotiations that underpin a diasporic identity made of unfixed temporalities and spatial uncertainties. In this talk, the artist will discuss recent projects—Loveless (2019), Remote Viewing (2017) and Coral Sea As Rolling Thunder (2017)—which variously employ text, performance, installation, moving image, and sound to convey a sense of dislocation while deliberately eluding legible narratives. She will also expand upon her way to design the exhibition space as a complex environment for sensorial engagement.
BIOGRAPHY
The artistic practice of Sung Tieu (b. 1987, Vietnam/Germany) spans a variety of mediums including sound installation, video, sculpture, photography, performance, and public interventions. In her work, she contends with notions of history and analyses transnational movements of people and capitals. Forthcoming solo exhibitions will be held at Haus der Kunst, Munich, Germany and Nottingham Contemporary, United Kingdom (both 2020). Other forthcoming projects will be featured at Tate Modern and David Roberts Art Foundation (both London, United Kingdom, 2019), and the Prague Biennale (2020). She has had solo exhibitions at FRAGILE, Berlin, Germany (2019); Royal Academy of Arts, London, United Kingdom (2018); and Nha San Collective, Hanoi, Vietnam (2017).
Image: Sung Tieu, No Gods, No Masters, 2017, video still. Courtesy the artist.