A event on Thursday 4th September. The event starts at 18:30.
To celebrate the closing of our current exhibition - Mangrove Forest by Võ An Khánh - we have invited Cường Minh Bá Phạm (aka Phambinho) to lead an audio journey through Vietnam's sonic landscapes.
Cường is a practitioner and researcher working at the intersection of sound, community and archives. He hosts a monthly NTS show under the handle ‘Phambinho,’ where he and occasional guests attempt to musically reframe ‘Asia’ as a contested paradigm. In addition, he has developed long-form projects for festivals and institutions across Europe and Asia. He is also the co-founder of An Việt Archives, which oversees the largest known collection of documents, photos, and other objects related to the British-Vietnamese experience, currently housed at Hackney Archives. Cường is in the first year of a UKRI-funded PhD at the University of Birmingham, as part of the larger SoundDecisions project. His research explores sound archives as sites of co-creation, co-discovery, and interaction for diasporic groups who imagine the Mekong Delta as home.
Cường will be introducing his research on Vietnamese sound and music, from early folk recordings to contemporary underground culture. At the same time, we will discuss how contemporary Vietnamese history has shaped the country’s culture in unexpected ways.
The evening will also be an opportunity to view our current exhibition: Mangrove Forest by Võ An Khánh (1936-2023), a self-taught photographer who worked in the shadows of the Mekong Delta’s resistance movement during the Vietnam War.
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This event is the sixth in our ‘First Thursdays’ series. Each event invites a guest to present a collection of music, alongside photography and film. The series focuses upon hidden collections, field recordings, ethnographic sounds and accidental archives, considering what they tell us about today’s world.
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The event takes place at IC Visual Lab: 6 West Street, Bristol, BS2 0BH.
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Entry requirements: no age restrictions
Entry requirements: no age restrictions
Cường is a practitioner and researcher working at the intersection of sound, community and archives. He hosts a monthly NTS show under the handle ‘Phambinho,’ where he and occasional guests attempt to musically reframe ‘Asia’ as a contested paradigm. In addition, he has developed long-form projects for festivals and institutions across Europe and Asia. He is also the co-founder of An Việt Archives, which oversees the largest known collection of documents, photos, and other objects related to the British-Vietnamese experience, currently housed at Hackney Archives. Cường is in the first year of a UKRI-funded PhD at the University of Birmingham, as part of the larger SoundDecisions project. His research explores sound archives as sites of co-creation, co-discovery, and interaction for diasporic groups who imagine the Mekong Delta as home.
Cường will be introducing his research on Vietnamese sound and music, from early folk recordings to contemporary underground culture. At the same time, we will discuss how contemporary Vietnamese history has shaped the country’s culture in unexpected ways.
The evening will also be an opportunity to view our current exhibition: Mangrove Forest by Võ An Khánh (1936-2023), a self-taught photographer who worked in the shadows of the Mekong Delta’s resistance movement during the Vietnam War.
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This event is the sixth in our ‘First Thursdays’ series. Each event invites a guest to present a collection of music, alongside photography and film. The series focuses upon hidden collections, field recordings, ethnographic sounds and accidental archives, considering what they tell us about today’s world.
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The event takes place at IC Visual Lab: 6 West Street, Bristol, BS2 0BH.
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Entry requirements: no age restrictions
Entry requirements: no age restrictions