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by Tuan Do Doc (Author), Eva Betcheva (Author), Lynn Kost (Editor)
Sung Tieu (b. 1987) is a German-Vietnamese artist based in Berlin. Her artistic practice spans multiple mediums, including sound installations, video, sculpture, photography, performance and public interventions. She is a 2018 graduate of the Royal Academy of Arts London. With Civic Floor , the MIT List Visual Art Center is presenting the US debut of recently co-commissioned works by German-Vietnamese artist Sung Tieu in July 2023. Tieu employs sculpture, drawing, sound, video, and installation to examine a wide range of subjects in which social or political power is articulated through sensory and psychological realms. Perception is a key node in Tieu's work as she elaborates the often alienating effects of sound, architecture, design, and language. Working across various media, Tieu crafts a spatial narrative in each of her exhibitions that reflects her research into bureaucratic systems and their affective spaces as well as her lived experience with them.
Author Biography
Tuan Do Doc is a research associate at the Bauhaus Dessau. At the HGB Leipzig, he is also involved in various curatorial projects, including » Ferment: Perspectives on EAST« (2022); in 2021 he realized the exhibition project » Multiboy« with Sung Tieu at the Galerie fü r Zeitgenö ssische Kunst Leipzig. Eva Bentcheva is an art historian and curator. She holds a Ph.D. in Art History from the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London, with a focus on transnational performance and conceptual art across Asia and Europe. She has previously served as the Goethe-Institut Postdoctoral Fellow at Haus der Kunst in Munich, Adjunct Researcher for the Tate Research Centre: Asia in London, and Senior Teaching Fellow at SOAS, University of London. Lynn Kost was from 2004 to 2011 artistic director of the Fumetto - International Comix Festival in Lucerne, before he moved to the Swiss Museum Allerheilingen in Schaffhausen and to Bü ndner Kunstmuseum Chur. Lynn Kost has since moved to Kunstmuseum Winterthur, where he is now responsible for the program of contemporary art. Harriet Zilch (born 1976), art historian, has been director of the Kunsthalle Nuremberg since Fall 2022. She has curated numerous exhibitions and written catalog articles on international artists, including Mathilde der Heijne, Stephan Balkenhol, Silvia Bä chli, Alicja Kwade and others. Harriet Zilch (born 1976), art historian, has been director of the Kunsthalle Nuremberg since Fall 2022. She has curated numerous exhibitions and written catalog articles on international artists, including Mathilde der Heijne, Stephan Balkenhol, Silvia Bä chli, Alicja Kwade and others. Sung Tieu (b. 1987) is a German-Vietnamese artist based in Berlin. Her artistic practice spans multiple mediums, including sound installations, video, sculpture, photography, performance and public interventions. She is a 2018 graduate of the Royal Academy of Arts London. With » Civic Floor«, the MIT List Visual Art Center is presenting the US debut of recently co-commissioned works by German-Vietnamese artist Sung Tieu in July 2023. Tieu employs sculpture, drawing, sound, video, and installation to examine a wide range of subjects in which social or political power is articulated.
