Join us and artist Moi Tran for the thirteenth Studio Social event where artists share a recent work.
In this one hour conversation, Moi Tran will discuss her latest work Care Chains: Love Will Continue to Resonate, a new commission from Wellcome Collection for the 2024/2025 exhibition Hard Graft: Work, Health and Rights.
This event will include a listening session lasting approximately 20 minutes and the sharing of a new poem. We invite you to find a quiet place that is conducive to listening, to best support this experience.
Free, all welcome, booking required.
Care Chains: Love Will Continue to Resonate
Each year over 23,000 people migrate to the UK as domestic workers in private households.
Care Chains (Love Will Continue to Resonate) is the result of a deeply collaborative process, including various contributors and voluntary member from The Voices of Domestic Workers, during which the creation of a devised performative work and voice composition, consisting of sound gesture, vocals, instruments, and body percussion was formed.
These elements are brought together in a multisensory installation comprising synchronised film, lighting, composition and vibration creating a space to reflect on experiences of care.
Tran approaches care-going as an experience of continued vibration, gently handling this as a fragile form of communication and energy transmission through performance, Care Chains (Love Will Continue to Resonate) contemplates the profound impact of caregiving as a chain of affective events, considering how care might constitute vibration, continuing to propagate, vibrate, thicken in a rippling a chain of care legacy.
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Moi Tran employs research, theatre, text, sound, installation, video, and performance to examine theorisations on the politics of emotional reckoning and states of feeling, encounters of witnessing in events of fugitive performativity and the politics of sound as critical record. Her interests in alternative modes of communication have produced experiments for imagining and performing counternarratives inside and outside archives of information. She collaborates with sound makers, dancers, actors and community-performers to reimagine conventional performance making. Tran is currently commissioned by the Wellcome Collection, Performing Borders/Performance Possession Automaton. She has presented and performed her work nationally and internationally. She has contributed to ‘By the Means at Hand’ a project by Vlatka Horvat for the Croatian Pavilion at the Venice Biennale – the 60th International Exhibition of Visual Art 2024 – by invitation.
Studio Social: a series of online artist talks. In each session, an artist will share one recent work or project with time for Q&A. This series profiles artists for whom both people and place are at the centre of their practice.
Artists who have contributed to this series;
Adam Bridgland, Chris Alton, Emma Smith, Ellie Harrison, Ian Nesbitt, Ania Bas, Owen Griffiths, Dana Olarescu. Amy Pennington. Harun Morrison, Maria Proshkowska and Barry Sykes.
Studio Socials are generously supported by Arts Council England.
Image courtesy of the artist.