Event
Resurrection #3
Anh Vo, performance view of introjective exhibition (nhập xuất nhập xuất), 2024, at Roulette Intermedium. Photo by Curtis Wallen. Courtesy of the artist and Triple Canopy.
11am–6pm
Free events Booking recommended
Join us on 14 November for a performance by artist Anh Vo and scholar Barley Norton as part of the public programme for true names.
Resurrection #3: death divination is a durational performance featuring a dancer and a musician. Conceived as a sacrificial exercise, the performance will offer the body as a vessel through which neglected spirits, energies and histories – both those in the space and those brought by the audience – might find temporary forms. Movements and songs will be repeated relentlessly, building up through the process until repetition begins to loosen the performers’ consciousness. Improvisation becomes less an act of individual expression than a ritual of possession: a practice of making oneself available to forces that cannot be fully named or anticipated.
The performance grows out of Anh Vo’s ongoing research into ca trù, a northern Vietnamese chamber music tradition they have studied through intensive apprenticeship with master practitioners Vũ Thuỳ Linh and Phạm Đình Hoằng in Hanoi, alongside ethnomusicologist Barley Norton, a longtime researcher of the form. Norton will continue this process with Vo in death divination, providing live musical accompaniment for the performance. In ca trù, tightly disciplined musical structures create conditions for extraordinary rhythmic elasticity and responsiveness between performers. Here at YDP, Vo and Norton will extend this tension between form and formlessness into an improvised encounter, where a limited vocabulary of movements and songs will be repeated to exhaustion, becoming a container through which something unforeseen might pass.
