Exhibition 3D Improvisation

Fri 16 Dec 2011, 8 pm
Goethe

From Goethe Institut:
A free art space, three nationalities and four different types of expression. On 16 Dec 2011, the artists Jacob Riis, Dang Hao, Michelle Stewart and Nguyen Thanh Thuy together with their audience move with, against and towards one other in a 3D-improvisation in the courtyard and exhibition hall of the Goethe-Institute Hanoi.

The interactive performance of the four artists plays with a mixture of light, sound and feelings, and embarks on a journey to our subconscious in search of a place we call home. The 3D improvisation creates a space that connects audience and artists. The electronic musician, the photographer, the all-round artist and the experimental-traditional musician balance on this bond and strive in their journey for an exchange that through music, voice, emotion, body movements and photography creates a chain reaction. Each link in this chain is a sentence in the conversation that develops between artist and audience. Such an interactive improvisation is a mutual interpretation and response: for example, the photographer responds to unexpected noises, voices and movements, as he tries to capture the moment in an image. The conversation continues until the last word is spoken. But what remains is that which has been newly formed, similar to an exchange of views that resonates within us, even when our interlocutor is no longer sitting next to us.

About artists

Jacob Riis, a Danish electronic musician, composer and improviser. His works consist mainly of noise, electronic and electro-acoustic music. He works for a wide variety of ensembles including big bands, chamber music ensembles, multi-channel speaker orchestras and in individual performances. A former trombonist, Jacob Riis now focuses on electronic music and is considered a laptop pioneer in the Danish experimental music scene.

The Photographer Dang Hao lives and works in Hanoi. He is a member of the Hanoi Photographers Association and works for many different magazines and newspapers as a photojournalist. Dang Hao has already won numerous prizes in press and photography and is currently working on the projects Movement Photograph and Vietnam Orchid.

The American artist Michelle Stwart unites music and visual art in her works and performances to create a personal interpretation of her surroundings. Many of her works were created in Hanoi, in independent as well as joint productions with Vietnamese and international artists. She describes herself as a channel through which creativity can flow and be expressed.

Nguyen Thanh Thuy is a sound artist in traditional and experimental music. She teaches at the Vietnam National Academy of Music and travels for her performances around the world. She won first prize as best performer of traditional music and has already released numerous albums.

Free Admission.