SONG OF A MEDIUM IN CEREMONY ( hầu đồng ca )
Year: 2015
South Wind Rises Contemporary Exhibition in Taipei, Taiwan.
SIGGRAPH Asia 2015: Life on Earth ( Curated by Nhung Walsh - Indochina Arts Partnership ), Bangkok. Thailand.
Format: video projected on a thin screen by projector
Artist collab: Ngoc Nau ( performing )
In Vietnam, medium ship remains a popular practice to enable the livings communicate with deceased loved one or to ask the spirits for wealth or protection of their family. When the spirit occupies a medium, he or she often dances freely in the ritual music. The background music in this work is a mix of ritual music and popular music in Vietnam. The artists re-performed a medium ceremony and used Depth tool kit and kinetic as another type of medium to seek substance of the cultural phenomena digitally.
behind the scenes photo: artist Ngoc Nau is scanned with a Kinect camera, creating a depth visual of her. Ngoc Nau wears the costume of a Co Dong, a symbolic image of the female saint in the Hau Dong ritual dance