Tam Khoa Vu’s work traverses screens, continents, technologies, and sound seeking a regenerative system of meaning in the midst of conflict and collapse. Throughout his video installations and other projects there persists an unceasing discursive collision between contemporary modes and apparatuses of self-determination: social media, pop culture, and the artist’s own eliding hand. 

On multiple screens, Vu explores the complexities of who he is – or who he believes he is, within the Vietnamese 𝑥 diaspora. Never far from the surface are the essential atmospheres and influences of Vu’s native Vietnam and his experiences forging a space of identity between his childhood in Canada and the homegoing embrace of his adult travels. 

In the third iteration of HYBRID CONDITION, a roving and evolving series of video installations, Vu presents an extraordinary orchestration of synergistic video works. The overlapping sequences function as generative collages, with images hurtling forward relentlessly, growing and extending outwards like fractals. Video becomes an immersive, sculptural object, opening up new fields of experience and interpretation. 

Just as the nucleus of light and projection exerts on the viewer its own directional gravity, enveloping layers of original audio composition position the viewer within the evolving, dynamic presence of the gallery. Pivoting between joy and pain, the seductive juxtapositions of images and sound will draw you in whilst simultaneously pushing you away.

Hybrid Condition 003 (original composition), 2024

Hybrid Condition 002 (original composition), 2023

HYBRID CONDITION

Universal straight cut. Fits slightly smaller, so size up if you're in between sizes!

It's green, it's a shirt. The uniform of blue collar workers in Vietnam. The uniforms typically have an arched print on the back detailing the company, company contact info, and industry. There are 100+ different colour and fabric swatches, but always in this same straight cut. They come tagged in a very general size starting from 5 up to 10. I did my best to equate it to sizing that you might be familiar with. There's no other manufacturers branding, and from all the different factories I visited, the cut and pattern is always the same. It's the best fit. Sorry if there are any loose threads, just grab a pair of scissors and snip them off. Many of the garments will still have chalk marks from the sewers, these will wash off. But generally I'll wear the garments with them on for as long as I can, I think it looks amazing. THE TAGGED SIZING ON THE GARMENT WILL DIFFER FROM THE SIZING YOU RECEIVE.

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TKV® Fine Arts & Financial Arts represents cultural ideas, memories, and artifacts that have shaped my identity and experiences as a Vietnamese Canadian. 

These projects and products are all about being able to tell another story and add nuance to the Vietnamese narrative so that it's not only about Francis Ford Coppola's Apocalypse Now (1979), soup, coffee (all of these things are enjoyable).

I'm telling stories that resonate with me as part of the Vietnamese diaspora, and maybe they don't connect with everyone, but I'm hoping there's something here for you anyway.

The items listed are limited inventory imports with the exception of a few recurring things. Once they're gone, they're gone... this is the nature of things!

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