VICTORIA
PHAM
artist | acoustic archaeologist | composer
WORDS + TEXTS
A selection of published writings, essays and reviews by Victoria.
For academic or research publications, please see 'Academia & Research'
MEDIA
Selected reviews, interviews, responses and profiles of Victoria and her work.
PODCASTS, RADIO + TV
Below is a selection of radio interviews, podcast guest features and TV interviews VIctoria has participated in.
'Re:sounding is a multi-faceted project exploring the Đông Sơn drum, central to Vietnamese culture, put together by Australian artists James Nguyen and Victoria Pham. Nguyen and Pham have sat with the intricately-decorated Đông Sơn drum, considered it from many angles, let it resonate. Their response encompasses research, sound experimentation and performance...
It was piquant, nostalgic; although the nostalgia was more for the tattered remnants of Vietnamese culture passed down through family memories, rather than for a clean cut origin story.
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You’ve got to sit through it so you can experience the flood of questions that follow. Like how their music relates, reflects, replaces the traditional sound of the Đông Sơn. Like how Vietnamese culture – any culture – is so much more nuanced and multi-layered than any one version of the story of Au Co. Like how listening to a wall of noise for an extended period evokes feelings of claustrophobia, anger and transcendence.
Maybe I did get something out of it after all. Weird shit par excellence.'