Moi Tran employs research, theatre, text, sound, installation, video, and performance making to examine theorisations on the politics of emotional reckoning and states of displaced feeling. Her work probes encounter of witnessing in events of fugitive performativity and the politics of sound as critical record. Her interests in alternative modes of communication have produced experiments for imagining and performing counternarratives inside and outside archives of information. She collaborates with sound makers, dancers, performers, scientists to reimagine conventional performance making.
Tran is currently commissioned by the Wellcome Collection, Performing Borders/Performance Possession Automaton. She will contribute to ‘By the Means at Hand’ a project by Vlatka Horvat for the Croatian Pavilion at the Venice Biennale – the 60th International Exhibition of Visual Art 2024 by invitation. She has presented and performed her work nationally and internationally ‘Well Settled’ (LUX U.K & OutPost VN); ‘SLEEP’(Live Art Development Agency/Royal Court /Pushkin House); ‘Civic Sound Archive’ Solo show PEER (UK); ‘Reshaping the collectible’ Tate Modern (UK); Sign Chorus (Da Nang, Vietnam); ‘Sonic Signalling in Reverse’ (Gothenburg Biennale)’; ‘The Bolero Effect’ (VCCA Vietnam); ‘The Circuit’ (Prague Quadrennial Festival); ‘I love a broad margin to my life’ Solo show (Yeo Workshop, Singapore); Shy God Chapter Mot (Chisenhale)‘Shy God – A Chorus’ (SPILL Festival UK); Landing 1.2.3 (Mark Rothko Centre Latvia)
Tran also works as a visual collaborator in set and costume design for Theatre, Dance and Opera. She is currently working on productions at Donmar Warehouse, Almeida Theatre and Lionsgate Productions.
Art: www.moitran.com
Design for performance: www.moitran.co.uk