The contemporary, distributed. On the mobility of a temporal concept
“Halle” and “Hanoi”. The two places are flickering across a programmed black-and-white LED-screen as part of the work Self Portrait by Sung Tieu. […] Not just my biographical ties seemed to be linked to the two cities mentioned in Tieu`s work […], but also a movement and temporality indicated by the list of cities on display. “Halle” made me think of my own experience of being placed at another temporality when the East joined its West-German counterpart in 1990.[…] Often, the question comes to mind: Are we contemporary? Or: are we always either too early or too late, while at same time trying to catch up with something that is considered to be contemporary? Read more…
Published in: Heritage Space Hanoi and University of the Arts Bremen (eds.), Alternative Mobility, Hanoi 2024.