Place: SeaM (Studio for Electroacoustic Music) Room 011 Coudraystraße 13A, 99423 Weimar
Opening: October 25th, 2024 at 6pm
Further exhibition days and duration: October 26-27, 2024 from 4-8pm

We hereby cordially invite you to the multichannel audio and video installation by Hà Thúy Hằng.

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.

Supported by

“…vớt một canh cánh chiêm bao…” (Trần Dần) is a multichannel video and audio installation which is supported by the Goethe Institute, the Experimental Radio of the Bauhaus University Weimar, Deutschlandfunk Kultur, the House Of World Cultures and the University of Music Franz Liszt Weimar.