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In partnership with An Việt Archives
How can sound resonate within diasporic communities?
Autograph
Rivington Place
London EC2A 3BA, UK
Tickets for this event open on 22 June. Register with Eventbrite to be notified when tickets launch
The ticket price for this event includes materials
Join us at Autograph's gallery for a hands-on workshop exploring how stories can be amplified across diasporic communities. This event will be led by two members of An Việt Archives and will build on their community archiving practice, rooted in the experience of Vietnamese and Southeast Asian refugees in Britain, particularly East London.
Artist and community organiser Trà My Hickin works at the intersection of the arts and community wellbeing. As part of the Amplifying Archives project, she collected oral histories to surface overlooked voices, and explore how the feminine, the domestic, and the unspoken can be held within the archive. Artist, producer and videographer Thierry Phung’s sound practice reflects on family history and Vietnamese diasporic identity. In the sound piece C.O.T.A II, he weaves together his father's karaoke recordings with home video audio and original music to create a tender, therapeutic excavation of inherited memory and displacement. Together, their practices approach sound as a restorative process: one that balances and fills the silences within the archive.
This event forms part of the programme for Nhu Xuan Hua: Of Walking on Fire. Accompanying the works on display is a soundscape drawn from the postwar wave of Franco-Vietnamese adaptations, including Thanh Lan’s Aller Danser, which resonated across generations of the Vietnamese diaspora. Carried through melody, Hua’s work reflects on what is often felt but left unspoken when encountering familiar sounds.
The ticket price for this event is £10. No one will be turned away for lack of funds. If this ticket price is unaffordable for you, please get in touch with Harriet at harriet@autograph-abp.co.uk about free ticketing options.
Trà My works at the intersection of the arts and community wellbeing as a publisher and community organiser.
She uses storytelling and applies narrative approaches to social justice and community building projects. She works for the contemporary radical international literary press, Tilted Axis, an ongoing exploration into alternatives – to the hierarchisation of certain languages and forms, including forms of translation.
She uses an intersectional and people-centred approaches to working with Vietnamese and other ESEA migrant communities, which she brings to her work with the An Việt Archives, Southeast and East Asian Women’s Association (SEEAWA), the Southeast and East Asian Centre (SEEAC), and various other human rights organisations.
Having been awarded a fellowship from Better Engagement Between East and Southeast Asia (BEBESEA) she is editing and translating a collection of life stories from Vietnamese refugees and migrants in Hong Kong.
Thierry is an artist, producer and videographer born in Montpellier, South of France and now based in London.
He released music on Pan-Asian electronic label Eternal Dragonz, Vietnamese trailblazers Nhac Gãy, and made an EP ‘Children of the Apocalypse’ on Kelman Duran and Comic Ans’ label Scorpio Red.
This one was made after a return from Vietnam in late 2019, through multiple lockdowns, up until the present day. Defined by its heavily textural atmospherics and cinematic composition, Children of the Apocalypse serves as an attempt to in ONY’s words: “soundtrack the video game I will never create and a reflection on my family history, what it means to be Vietnamese in the south of France.”
He also has been crafting stories on his genre-bending NTS radio show. He mines whatever he finds to craft an immersive and strange musical environment. His shows are by turn dark, ethereal and uncanny, often all at once.
Everyone is welcome at Autograph. Planning a visit? Have a look at our Visit Us page to find out more about getting to the gallery, accessibility and more.
Have any questions about your visit? Get in touch with Harriet at harriet@autograph-abp.co.uk
Autograph welcomes people with all types of disabilities.
This workshop will be seated.
Our building and entrance is step free. A wheelchair accessible lift goes to all floors.
This event will take place in our Studio, on the ground floor.
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There will be light refreshments available throughout the event.
This workshop series is in partnership with An Việt Archives - a Hackney based collection of community archives of Vietnamese history in the UK and beyond. The events build on An Việt's ongoing exploration of archives, memory work, history and knowledge-making.
Autograph's events are popular and often sell out. We recommend booking a ticket in advance. If you need to cancel your ticket for any reason, you can receive a refund up to 24 hours before the start of the event. You do not need to bring your paper ticket to the event.
The ticket price for this event is £10. No one will be turned away for lack of funds. If this ticket price is unaffordable for you please get in touch with Harriet at harriet@autograph-abp.co.uk about free ticketing options.
Please note that photography will take place at this event. Images from this event may be used by Autograph and external press for marketing and promotional use, including: printed and online publicity, social media, press releases, or other use. If you do not wish to be photographed, please let a member of staff know on the day.
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Banner image: Nhu Xuan Hua, Braindead, one pill makes you bigger[detail], 2016. Courtesy of the artist and Anne-Laure Buffard, France. Copyright © Nhu Xuan Hua.
Led by: 1) Courtesy Kaitlan Bui. 2) Courtesy Phương Anh Nguyễn.
Visit and Access: Photograph by Kate Elliott.
In Collaboration With: All images Courtesy of the artist and Anne-Laure Buffard, France. Copyright © Nhu Xuan Hua.1) New Chapter, Archive from the year '85[detail], 2026. 2) The White dress, The Roses and the Black Window - Archive from the year ‘72[detail], 2017-2022. 3) Sharp Tongue [detail], 2017. 4) Braindead, one pill makes you bigger[detail], 2016.
Inspired by: Nhu Xuan Hua, The one who couldn't talk [detail], 2021. © the artist.
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