About the exhibition

…vớt một canh cánh chiêm bao… (Trần Dần)

…to grab a disquiet of dreams…

Multichannel Audio and Video installation. Balloons, objects, aluminium foil.

"I struggle with sadnesses until the sadnesses go through the needle's hole and get out into the vast

universe... I was as carefree as a child, looking at the stars." Hà Thúy Hằng

About the artist

Hà Thúy Hằng is a multimedia composer, sound artist, and improviser based in Hanoi, Vietnam. She studied classical music from a young age. She holds a degree in musicology from the Vietnam National Academy of Music (2015) and Music Experimentation and Improvisation, DomDom Hub for Experimental Art and Music, Viet Nam (2018). Hằng has a special interest in Vietnamese traditional music and art in contemporary contexts. Her works often explore the correlation between

indigenous cultures and social change. In 2018, she founded The Future of Tradition, a project aimed at young people who are interested in the preservation and development of traditional culture and arts – the project sponsored by Famlab – British Council. Hà Thúy Hằng is a prominent young generation artist in Vietnam in recent years. With art activities, she contributes new ideas and creates a community of young contemporary artists with similar interests and learning about Vietnamese indigenous arts and culture. In 2019 and 2020, Hà Thúy Hằng was Artist of the Year (The prestigious award of Hanoi Grapevine - an important and active promoter of art in Vietnam). In 2022, she received the prestigious Prince Claus Seed Awards (Netherlands), her works have been shown in Vietnam, Indonesia, South Korea, Italy, Germany, the

Czech Republic, and others.

About the showcase

Three part music showcase by Theo Pluto.

The title "Pedagogy Of The Oppressed" is a borrowed from Paulo Freire's rabble-rousing book of the same title which was also banned in South Africa by the then government. This showcase looks into the critical functions of music as an integral instrument of cultural pride, socio-political awareness and resistance from a pedagogical lens. Through the medium of sound, Theo Pluto will be recreating the Black sonic landscape of South Africa at different chronological indicators during the Apartheid era by way of themed and curated musical sets which reflect the times. The showcase will be transmitted. Listen live on site or online via bauhaus.fm.

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About the artist

Theo Pluto is a Cultural Geographer, Sonic Curator, Researcher, Archivist, Record Collector and Activist from Soweto (Johannesburg, South Africa). His artistic practice revolves around sensory stimulation where he curates imaginative spaces through sounds that re-examine and re-configure Black Histories in the 3rd Space intersection to bring about awareness on innately shared mental, spiritual and physical experiences amongst the black populace. Historical and political insights are a focal theme in his work where he locates nuanced ideologies that come with creative offerings that live and evolve today through documented firsthand narratives from protest artists in a transitioning Africa and abroad.

About the Radio Art Residency

The Radio Art Residency is an international fellowship programme for artistic practice on the radio. The residency is a joint project by the Goethe-Institut and Experimental Radio at Bauhaus-University Weimar in cooperation with Deutschlandfunk Kultur, Haus der Kulturen der Welt (House of the World Cultures Berlin) and the University of Music Franz Liszt Weimar. In 2023 and 2024 the programme offered a two-month stay in Weimar for two artists from each of the regions South America, South Asia, Southeast Asia and Southern Africa. Since 2023, the radio art residency is part of the overarching roof project “Listening to the World – 100 Years of Radio”: In this artistic research project, artists, scientists, media professionals and listeners from the different regions address various questions about listening in its diversity and its transcultural interconnections.The aim of the scholarship is to promote creative artistic work and to support the realisation of new artistic works that deal with the thematic focuses of the Listening to the World project.