Gabi Dao
archieven - artistiek onderzoek - audiovisueel - autobiografisch - community - dekolonisatie - Diaspora - digitaal - ecologie - experimenteel - film - gender - installatie - keramiek - LGBTI+ - media - natuur - objecten - residency - sculptuur - textiel - video - wetenschap & techniek
My interdisciplinary practice is interested in multiple truths, blurry temporalities, sensory affirmations, more-than-human voices and ways of knowing otherwise.
Often I work through long-gestating, fluid processes of gathering, breaking and repairing from my own world-making vernacular of audio/visual fragments, tactile collections of whatnots and scraps of linguistic detritus. Thinking with these materials, I often begin at slippages in so-called ‘history’, archives and storytelling— towards channeling the ineffable tensions between grief and joy, alienation and belonging, dissidence and complicity, disassociation and sentimentality. My work manifests as experimental films, installations, sculpture, collage and scent.
I am a queer second-generation Vietnamese/Chinese person from the stolen and ancestral territories of the xʷməθkwəy̓əm, Skwxwú7mesh and Səl̓ílwətaʔ/Selilwitulh Nations (colonially known as Vancouver, Canada) now based in Rotterdam, The Netherlands.