Tam Khoa Vu Public Presentation : the hybrid condition
Tam Khoa Vu, 1_tkv_airforce (detail), 2023.
As part of his artist residency at OBORO, in partnership with Festival d'Accès Asie, artist Tam Khoa Vu shares his practice and findings in a public presentation at the New Media Lab.
the hybrid condition explores cultural hybridity through a four-channel video and audio installation using a blend of personal, archival, and modern-day footage. By juxtaposing various moving images, the video installation highlights the complex interconnectedness of diasporic culture and cultural colonialism.
Through footage emphasizing Vietnamese identity and diaspora, the hybrid condition digs into the roots of cultural, ethnic, and national identities to put into question Western hegemony and influence over Vietnam, Vietnamese, and Vietnamese-Canadian identity.
Festival Accès Asie is a Montréal-based arts festival that promotes Asian arts, cultures and histories through a diversity of artistic disciplines including the visual arts, dance, theatre, video, film, music, comedy, poetry, literature, performance, new media and culinary arts. Its activity is happening in May, which is Asian Heritage Month in Canada.
Tam Khoa Vu, 1_tkv_airforce (detail), 2023.
Tam Khoa Vu is an artist based in Tio’Tia:Ke / Montreal. His work challenges common representations and depictions of Vietnamese and Vietnamese-Canadian identity, while playfully opening up spaces of abundance, possibility, and nuance. Using various visual and digital art forms, his practice explores themes of production, manufacturing, power, representation, and identity through exploring the nuances of the “third space” of diasporic experience between Vietnam and Canada.
Notable presentations of the artist’s works include Montréal Arts Interculturels (MAI), Montreal, QC (2022); ARTCH Emerging Artists Exhibition, Montreal, QC (2021), Eastern Bloc, Montreal, QC (2016). He has received grants from large and small scale funding bodies and institutions such as OBORO (2022), Canada Council for the Arts (2022), Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec (2022, 2021), and MAI (2022). In 2017, he completed his B.F.A at Concordia University in Design and Computation Arts.
