Sung Tieu is a Vietnamese-born, Berlin and London-based artist whose practice spans a range of media, predominantly installation, sound, moving image, sculpture, and photography. She assembles and brings together a rich vocabulary from journalism, archival research and conceptual art traditions into nuanced and layered exhibitions and moments of display. Her work contends with notions of history and analyses transnational movements of both people and objects — be it through the investigation of diaspora communities or the commercial, hyper accelerated ways that global capitalism is reproduced. Writing as research process and as medium is a recurrent thread in her practice. Current solo exhibitions include ‘Zugzwang’ at Haus der Kunst, Munich and ‘In Cold Print’ at Nottingham Contemporary, Nottingham. Forthcoming exhibitions include the 34th São Paulo Biennial; Hamburger Bahnhof Museum für Gegenwart, Berlin; GAMeC, Bergamo; Kunstmuseum Bonn; 1st Prague Biennale and Emalin Gallery, London.
Cédric Fauq is a Curator at Palais de Tokyo, Paris. Previously, he worked as curator of exhibitions at Nottingham Contemporary, where he developed the exhibition projects ‘Still I Rise: Feminisms, Gender, Resistance’; ‘Sung Tieu: In Cold Print’; and ‘Grace Before Jones: Camera, Disco, Studio’, performances by Okwui Okpokwasili, Steffani Jemison, and Lou Lou Lou Sainsbury as well as publications. Fauq has also written and developed independent projects at DOC, Paris (2018); Sophie Tappeiner, Vienna (2018); Nir Altman, Munich (2019); Cordova, Barcelona (2020); and Litost, Prague (2020). He co-directed clearview.ltd in London (2016-2018) and was a member of the Baltic Triennial XIII curatorial team (2017-2018).
Damian Lentini is Curator at Haus der Kunst in Munich. He has taught art history and theory of contemporary art at the University of Melbourne and worked on various exhibition projects in Australia and Germany. At Haus der Kunst, he has been extensively involved in exhibitions and publications with El Anatsui, Sarah Sze, Harun Farocki, Jörg Immendorff, Khvay Samnang, Raqs Media Collective and Forensic Architekture, among others, as well as in the comprehensive group exhibition Postwar: Art between the Pacific and the Atlantic, 1945-1965.
By disjointing acts of listening from the ear and its particular arrangement of time, Sonic Continuum proposes a shift from representation to expression and asks: can sound restitute failures to listen? How might we listen to time affectively? What auditory imaginaries and possible futures can listening unfold?
Damian Lentini: Let’s start by talking about two projects, which are taking place concurrently in 2020 – ‘Zugzwang’ at Haus der Kunst, and ‘In Cold Print’ at Nottingham Contemporary – and the way in which you thought about these commissions. Sung Tieu: At Haus der Kunst, my initial desire was to propose something derived from…