REVELATION ( khải )
Year: 2018
The work was presented as the Vietnam pavilion in London Design Biennale 2018
Format: projection mapping of video onto fabric panels, indigo-covered steel frames, hand gesture sensors, glass and stainless steel structures.
Artist collab: Thao Vu ( fashion design ) Giang Nguyen ( typography )
Curated by Claire Driscoll ( Work Room Four )
"Khai" means revelation, and is a work that explores how Vietnamese designers are reclaiming the past and capturing the country's transformation. Thao Vu introduces "indigo fabric", an ancient textile dyeing art preserved among ethnic minorities in Northern Vietnam, while Giang designs a set of typography that is deeply futuristic in Vietnamese culture. Tung combines these materials on a steel frame installation with hanging indigo fabric pieces, and uses a projector to display the dyed fabric images and typographic graphics on them. Viewers interact with the control panel in the middle, to see the content they want, as well as witness the text and image effects dissolving into water like the dyeing process of indigo fabric.
in the photo: using the font designed by Giang Nguyen, I created animations where the lines of text dissolve into each other after reading, depicting the dissolution of fabric dye into water.
Behind the scenes: Curator Claire Driscoll works with artists to build a prototype of the installation at her studio - Work Room Four studio - in Hanoi.