Strange archive #1 (for love)
2021
Role: Artist
2021
Role: Artist
With Strange Archive #1 (For Love), Beautiful Noise Collective (BNC) seeks to exhibit records of love, loss, and hope in our time as documented through crowdsourced stories and images. These are pieces of contemporaneous records that have been created to express one's own experience and feeling towards what it means to love, to unlove, and to define love. The stories and images look into ourselves, out onto our relationships, and what we see in our communities and world. We give these pieces of memory and emotion a physical form that, like love, can be both abstract and specific, perfect and patched, stable and fragile. We invite the audience to walk among our installation, pick up the hearts, and see the many stories of love in our time.
The installation is partly inspired by Strange Fruit (1992-1997) by artist Zoe Leonard, dedicated to artist David Wojnarowicz who died of AIDS in 1992.
Stories crowd-sourced by The Lab Saigon, images sourced from BNC’s friends: Lien Pham, An Thien Tran, Tung Dinh, Duong Nguyen, Dat Tien Vu, Dat Vinh Tran, Tran Phuong Vu, Dang Nguyen Khoi, Mat Bet, Kai Ng, Alicia Oanh Le, Tran Thu Hang, Duc Viet.
Commissioned for Museum of Heartbreak exhibition, part of a wider campaign (yeumoikho.com) to eliminate HIV-related stigma and promote access to HIV prevention and treatment in Vietnam.
Medium: Heart-shaped boxes made from collages of text and images transferred onto transparent tape
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The installation is partly inspired by Strange Fruit (1992-1997) by artist Zoe Leonard, dedicated to artist David Wojnarowicz who died of AIDS in 1992.
Stories crowd-sourced by The Lab Saigon, images sourced from BNC’s friends: Lien Pham, An Thien Tran, Tung Dinh, Duong Nguyen, Dat Tien Vu, Dat Vinh Tran, Tran Phuong Vu, Dang Nguyen Khoi, Mat Bet, Kai Ng, Alicia Oanh Le, Tran Thu Hang, Duc Viet.
Commissioned for Museum of Heartbreak exhibition, part of a wider campaign (yeumoikho.com) to eliminate HIV-related stigma and promote access to HIV prevention and treatment in Vietnam.
Medium: Heart-shaped boxes made from collages of text and images transferred onto transparent tape
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