Date: Tuesday, 12 May 2026
Time: 6.00PM – 7.30PM
Location: Mondrian Hotel Singapore, Jungle Ballroom, Level 3, 16A Duxton Hill, 089970 (Accessible from street level via Mirror Tunnel)
TAF is pleased to welcome artist, filmmaker, and interdisciplinary researcher Thuy-Han Nguyen-Chi to inaugurate a new phase in its Conversation Series. The session, organised and moderated by TAF’s Curator Wong Binghao, will begin with a short sonic composition specially conceived by Nguyen-Chi for this occasion. Nguyen-Chi suggested that both her and Wong each select three songs that reflected their current projects and years-long dialogue on artistic research and cultural criticism. Nguyen-Chi then invited music producer LLinh Nguyen to mix the six songs into a unique composition.
Nguyen-Chi and Wong will discuss the sonic mix in relation to three of Nguyen-Chi’s recent artworks, made between 2022 and 2025, in which sound, collaboration, and knowledge production factor significantly.
About TAF Conversation Series
Through the Conversation Series, TAF invites artists and their collaborators to share how their processes and research might shape and respond to TAF’s research concerns. In its second year, TAF’s Conversation Series will be guided by lessons on recovery, focusing on practices that inspire through instruction. TAF will invite contemporary artists from the region and diaspora of Southeast Asia to share how they have envisioned or built collective platforms, proposed and complicated systems of knowledge, and communicated across contexts and differences. These sessions aim to uncover the reciprocal support and conditions of labour required to sustain healing, growth, and connection.
About the Artist
Thuy-Han Nguyen-Chi
Thuy-Han Nguyen-Chi is a Milky Way-based artist whose practice mutates in and out of film, sculpture, installation, performance, and interdisciplinary research. Interweaving real and fictional characters in search of consciousness, language, and freedom, she explores the epistemological, aesthetic, and political possibilities of image and sound in her recent body of work.
Her work has been presented in art and cinema contexts, including Berlin Biennale; Göteborg International Biennial for Contemporary Art; Belvedere 21, Vienna; Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts at Harvard University, Cambridge; De Appel, Amsterdam; Experimental Media and Performing Arts Center, New York; Museum für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt; Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Seoul; Roy and Edna Disney CalArts Theater, Los Angeles; Sàn Art, Saigon; Staatliche Kunsthalle, Baden-Baden; Villa Medici, Rome; Whitechapel Gallery, London; Copenhagen International Documentary Festival; Montréal Festival International du Film sur l’Art; New York Film Festival; Rencontres Internationales Paris/Berlin; Reykjavík International Film Festival; and Singapore International Film Festival. She has performed at Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin; Maxim Gorki Theater, Berlin; Migros Museum of Contemporary Art, Zürich; and Musée d’Art et d’Histoire, Geneva.
