Minh Duc grew up in Germany, and his origins are in Vietnam. He studied mathematics and computer science. After a residency in Brussels in 2015, he collaborated with performers and choreographers and worked for different exhibitions, performance projects, art festivals and art institutions like workspacebrussels. So he participated in a collaboration project with Gregory Sholette, workspacebrussels and Sale Docks Venice, during the Biennale di Venezia in 2017. With the knowledge of mathematical and computer science-based concepts, he is interested in interdisciplinary art forms between art and science. His works consist of hybrid and mixed art forms from several genres, including installations, performances, projections and sound art. In 2018 he created a new concept for ongoing installation and performative works based on the mathematical concept of cellular automata, supervised by professors Stefan Schmidt and Andreas Deutsch of the Mathematical Institute and Centre for Information Services and high-performance computation in Dresden. His works consist of hybrid and mixed art forms from several genres, including installations, performances, projections and sound art. During his residency in 2019 in Montreal, Canada, he dived more into the electronic music scene, artistic computation, and electro-acoustic performances. From 2020 he was active in a small art and cultural NGO in Germany. Recently, he has been focusing more on photography and personal documentation while researching experimental musical experiments while intersecting modular synthesis and piano.

Beursschouwburg

Trepkodoune is a piece, which is based on Bulgarian and Japanese poetry. These poetries have particular rhythm that is related to their own bodys memory, and we will transpose these unforgettable rhythm into concrete material shapes by using movement, voice, space, etc.

Trepkodoune is a piece, which is based on Bulgarian and Japanese poetry. These poetries have a particular rhythm that is related to their own bodies memory, and we will transpose these unforgettable rhythms into concrete material shapes by using movement, voice, space, etc. Working with rhythm, which is related to their own bodies memory and sensitivity, means working with the invisible, the elusive, so the space in which we will move will transpose these characteristics as well. We will create layers in the space to show or hide parts of their bodies, to zoom in on a part of the body thats exposed and their movement for a moment. Yumi Osanai is Japanese dancer and choreographer, Boryana Todorova is Bulgarian actress and performer. They are concerned by thin traces which are the base of their identities and which continue to exist in their imaginations. We construct, layer by layer, and their aim is to create a piece where their particular body memories interlace.

In this collaboration, a series of boxes are made. In this video installation, the observer gets into an intimate world. The small hole in each box gives only a micro view on the video.

Production: CC Strombeek and Workspacebrussels Concept and performer: Yumi Osanai and Boryana Todorova Sound: Johann Loiseau Light: Emilie Shoumaker, Pictures: Brian Den Hartog Installation: Minh Duc Nguyen Support: VGC Thanks for: fieldworks, Ciril Clement, Emi Kodama, Satu Peltoniemi, Titanne Bregentzer, Drita Kotaji, Elisabeth Bard, Raymond Delepierre

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