Lecture Performance mit Musik

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with Lem TragNguyen and Nhi Dương

Waves of Sound Without Shore takes “memories that refuse closure” as a conceptual point of entry, situating Vietnamese folk music within the layered histories of war, displacement and intergenerational transmission. Drawing from Nhi Dương’s archival research on folk songs across political division and the Vietnamese diaspora, the work approaches these musical forms as a mobile architecture of memory that is continually shaped by historical ruptures and geopolitical movement.

Within the performance, Lem TragNguyen translates the research into embodied practice, allowing memory to surface through voice, silence and the subtle gestures of the performing body. Concepts such as cultural trauma, diasporic archives, inherited silence and folk music as collective memory, together with forms like the lullaby, the fragment and the unstable intimacies of wartime, create a shared conceptual ground between scholarly inquiry and artistic practice.

Waves of Sound Without Shore unfolds as a space of attention and resonance, where history is encountered not as a fixed narrative but as an active field of vibration. In this setting, memory remains open, continually reconfigured through the interplay of research, embodied action and the presence of the audience.

Lem TragNguyen (she/they) is a performance-based visual artist and curator, born in Germany and raised between Vietnam and Germany. She studied in an MFA programme focusing on the body, theory and poetics of performance art, combining practice-oriented research with curatorial work. Her work has been shown internationally, including at the IN:ACT Festival in Hanoi, Tranzit in Prague, the Month of Arts Practice in Vietnam, Documenta 15 in Kassel, the 4th Industrial Art Biennial in Croatia, Suprainfinit Collisions in Bucharest, the ifa Gallery in Stuttgart, the Museum and Gallery in Prediger, and other venues in Europe and Asia. In 2021, Lem founded the independent platform Lem Hay Là for performance art in Vietnam. In addition to her artistic practice, she realises curatorial projects, including a film programme on the Vietnamese diaspora.

Nhi Dương is cultural practitioner who graduated with a degree in Journalism from the University of Social Sciences and Humanities (Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam) in 2023, and is currently pursuing an MA in I-CONTACT (International Cooperation on Human Rights and Intercultural Heritage) at the University of Bologna (Italy). Her practice combines ethnography with participatory methodologies that engage participants as co-creators. Through these initiatives, she develops inclusive approaches to heritage engagement that recognize living traditions as dynamic and continuously evolving, transforming intangible cultural elements into collaborative experiences beyond traditional institutional spaces.

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