Ho Tzu Nyen – Some Notes on the Critical Dictionary of Southeast Asia

The Dynamic Archive - Ho Tzu Nyen

4 July 2019, 6 pm

Auditorium Hochschule für Künste, Am Speicher XI 8, 28217 Bremen

In English language

The Artist Ho Tzu Nyen will speak about the Dictionary and the projects it gave rise to, for example The Nameless (2015) and One or Several Tigers (2018) Akin to an organism, The Critical Dictionary of Southeast Asia (CDOSEA) is part of an ongoing project that grows, generates and provides critical insight into the pluralistic definitions of the territories under this nomenclature. Born out of the ambiguity inherent in the term ‘Southeast Asia’, the work considers what makes up an area not unified by language, religion or political power and uses an algorithmic system to generate an “endless series of possible Southeast Asias”, which collectively form a torn yet interconnected terminological territorial tapestry. Described as a platform facilitating ongoing research, a matrix for generating future projects and an oracular montage machine, the CDOSEA consists of a is an algorithmic “Abécédaire” in an infinite loop, made up of video materials detourned from online sources and recomposed in endless variations by algorithms created in collaboration with Jan Gerber and Sebastian Lütgert (0 x 2620).

The lecture is part of the lectureseries and the project The Dynamic Archive.

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