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"It is not a reconstruction. It’s not preservation. It’s an attempt to sit
inside the ambivalence between inheritance and experimentation, devotion and irreverence." – Anh Vo
PARTICIPANT INC presents Vietnamese choreographer and performance artist Anh Vo’s first solo exhibition in New York City, Song and Sex: Before the Revolution, curated by Alhena Katsof. This unfolding exhibition exists in tandem with a series of performances that will take place weekly in the gallery. Each performance is a distinctive attempt at resurrection, invoked by an ever-evolving cast of artists, dancers, and musicians.
Song and Sex: Before the Revolution is the culmination of a year-long project during which Vo apprenticed with Vũ Thuỳ Linh and Phạm Đình Hoằng, two master-musicians who specialize in Ca Trù. This dying form of northern Vietnamese chamber music, austere and trance-like, is built on intricate poetic meters and a striking interplay between voice, drum, and lute. In the 20th century, it was…
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"It is not a reconstruction. It’s not preservation. It’s an attempt to sit
inside the ambivalence between inheritance and experimentation, devotion and irreverence." – Anh Vo
PARTICIPANT INC presents Vietnamese choreographer and performance artist Anh Vo’s first solo exhibition in New York City, Song and Sex: Before the Revolution, curated by Alhena Katsof. This unfolding exhibition exists in tandem with a series of performances that will take place weekly in the gallery. Each performance is a distinctive attempt at resurrection, invoked by an ever-evolving cast of artists, dancers, and musicians.
Song and Sex: Before the Revolution is the culmination of a year-long project during which Vo apprenticed with Vũ Thuỳ Linh and Phạm Đình Hoằng, two master-musicians who specialize in Ca Trù. This dying form of northern Vietnamese chamber music, austere and trance-like, is built on intricate poetic meters and a striking interplay between voice, drum, and lute. In the 20th century, it was…
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