Sung Tieu

  • Sung Tieu’s artistic vocabulary explores the vast and evolving protection and control industries, still rooted in the logic of the Cold War, used to restrict and mould subjects in subsequently globalized capitalism. Her works are informed by her own experience of cultural collision and displacement, as a Vietnamese refugee in Germany. Within her exhibitions, a sense of dislocation is evoked through a combination of sonic, visual, and textual elements; at the same time, her extensive research on sonic weaponry and sound as medium accentuates the work, demystifying and highlighting their material mechanics. In an era in which politics everywhere is being rendered by polarisation, fake news and foreign electoral intervention, Tieu’s takes us back to Cold War tactics, construction of fear and paranoia; the genesis of such psychological warfare.

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Sung Tieu’s artistic vocabulary explores the vast and evolving protection and control industries, still rooted in the logic of the Cold War, used to restrict and mould subjects in subsequently globalized capitalism. Her works are informed by her own experience of cultural collision and displacement, as a Vietnamese refugee in Germany. Within her exhibitions, a sense of dislocation is evoked through a combination of sonic, visual, and textual elements; at the same time, her extensive research on sonic weaponry and sound as medium accentuates the work, demystifying and highlighting their material mechanics. In an era in which politics everywhere is being rendered by polarisation, fake news and foreign electoral intervention, Tieu’s takes us back to Cold War tactics, construction of fear and paranoia; the genesis of such psychological warfare.