Into the Blue – Sield/Cao
08 pm, Fri 17 Jan 2025
Manzi Art Space
14 Phan Huy Ích, Ba Đình, Hà Nội
Surcharge: 150,000 vnđ/each
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From the organizer:
Into the Blue invites contemplation on the dual nature of humanity—the potential to create beauty, goodness, and transcendence while also possessing the power to destroy both the world and ourselves. Central to this project is the image of the 𝗸𝗶𝘁𝗲 and its tranquil aeolian flute drone, symbolising the human mind, dreams, its desire for freedom, and the poetry of the unforeseeable.
While many today associate “drone” with pilotless aircraft and the horrors of modern warfare, Into the Blue reclaims the ancient, calming drone sound, emerging from the interplay of humans and nature. This drone opens a contemplative space and evokes a sense of peace, lifting the curtain of the everyday.
This project also reflects on the acceleration and fragmentation of the modern world and our growing disconnection from nature, whether we realize it or not. The more we immerse ourselves in digital technologies, virtual realities, and AI-powered tools, the more it becomes important to recognize their impact and find balance between our digital and physical worlds.
At Manzi Art Space, Siedl/Cao will present this project in its several forms of existence: a video installation, a sound performance with kinetic kite-flute sculptures, video excerpts of their composition for choir, and their recent sound rides with kite-flutes in Vietnam.
Siedl/Cao with Cao Thanh Lan from Vietnam and Gregor Siedl from Austria is a Vienna-based artist group that works in the fields of sound art, transdisciplinary art, media art, and contemporary music. Siedl/Cao is one of 5 groups from Austria that received the award New Austrian Sound of Music 2018-2020 in the category Contemporary Music.
With their recent works, they research into the relationship and balance between visual and audio elements, nature and artificiality, human and machine, intentionality versus unintentionality, and explore how contextualization changes our perception of things. Sound, human body movements, artificial intelligence, light, space, and shadow are among their media to convey in a poetic and playful way their reflections on art and humanity.
Works of Siedl/Cao have been featured at numerous art institutions, festivals, and cultural venues. They have been touring in Europe, Japan, Brazil, Iran, China, Taiwan, Argentina, Uruguay, Chile, Finland, Vietnam, Australia, and Indonesia.
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