SOUND ACTS
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    • Nanah Palm, Louisa Doloksa & Danai Syrrou
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    • Nicola Woodham
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    • ​Nikolaos Vourdoulas & Louisa Doloksa
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    • ​The Death of Queer
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    • Tim Lienhard presents "One Zero One"
    • Tritotetartes (34es)
    • Vassiliea Stylianidou
    • Xana
    • Yorgia Karidi
    • Zillah Minx presents "She's a Punk Rocker"
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Aimée Lê

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Aimée Lê is a Vietnamese-American artist; Her work focuses on untranslatability, conceptual excess, authorial control and the ‘anecdotal’ through the lens of internationalism. She is the co-author, with Fiona Chamness, of the poetry collection Feral Citizens (Red Beard Press, 2011), and one of the founders of Occupy Dartmouth. Aimée is currently a PhD candidate in Practice-based Poetics at Royal Holloway, University of London. In Sound Acts she presented the world premiere of her project 'Aliki in Saigon', a Vietnamese/French/ English/Russian rework of the songs of Greek 60s pop movie diva Aliki Vougiouklaki, with a short accompanying lecture on multilingualism and untranslatability. In Aimée's words: "Aliki Vougiouklaki’s nostalgic countryside aesthetic, monosyllabic verbal emphasis, and soprano singing lend themselves quite well to a Vietnamese-language translation. Retaining most of Aliki’s original melodies to produce an uncanny ‘double’ and using backing karaoke tracks created by Filtig, I will perform a live set of several of Aliki’s most popular songs with the lyrics translated from Greek into Vietnamese (with small snatches in French, English and Russian, the most commonly found Western languages in Vietnam, which roughly correlate to three historical periods: French colonialism, American military occupation, and Soviet communism). The result is an internationalist pastiche that calls attention to the libidinal excess of performance over meaning."
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  • home
  • Acts A-C
    • Abdu Ali
    • Adult Baby Jesus & the Unholy Virgin
    • Aimée Lê
    • Akoo-o
    • Alex Alvina Chamberland
    • Alex C
    • Alkistis-Lara Papadaki
    • Alyssa Moxley & Natasha Poulantza
    • Andriana Minou presents 'Epicycle'
    • Anna-Maria Kanta
    • Aris Powerboy
    • Caoimhe Mader McGuinness
    • Charismatic Megafauna
    • Charles Céleste Hutchins
    • Coral Short
  • Acts D-J
    • Diego Orihuela
    • DoDo
    • DUBAIS
    • Erica Scourti
    • Evan Ifekoya
    • Eve Libertine & Charles Webber
    • Fluffyland
    • Frantic Aerostat
    • FYTA
    • FYTINI 101
    • Holly Ingleton
    • Ianna Book
    • INVASORIX
    • Istanbul Queer Art Collective
    • ​Jennifer Torrence
    • Julischka Stengele
  • Acts K-N
    • Kharálampos Goyós
    • Kostis Stafylakis
    • Les Trucs
    • Lori Baldwin
    • ​Magda Lampropoulou
    • Maria F. Dolores & Hundin Atxe
    • Maria Papadomanolaki
    • Metatheodosia
    • Miss Saturation
    • Mutandini Karl
    • Nanah Palm, Louisa Doloksa & Danai Syrrou
    • Natasha Lall
    • Neo / Neele Hülcker
    • Nicephor Herrantes
    • Nicola Woodham
  • Acts N-S
    • ​Nikolaos Vourdoulas & Louisa Doloksa
    • ​Noemi Veberič Levovnik
    • ​Pan Daijing
    • Panels 2015/16
    • ​Pauline Boudry / Renate Lorenz
    • ​Peanut Envy
    • ​Pêdra Costa
    • ​Peter Cant & Krzysztof Honowski
    • Pokemon Poetry
    • Procne & Philomela
    • ​Puce Mary
    • Quimera Rosa
    • ​Red Monky
    • ​Robin Buckley
    • Sex Workers Opera
    • Skull After-Party
  • Acts S-Z
    • Sofia Bempeza
    • ​Stellan Veloce
    • ​Submarine
    • Tante & Tante
    • Tara Rodgers
    • ​The Death of Queer
    • ​The Squidgina Mermaid
    • Tim Lienhard presents "One Zero One"
    • Tritotetartes (34es)
    • Vassiliea Stylianidou
    • Xana
    • Yorgia Karidi
    • Zillah Minx presents "She's a Punk Rocker"
    • Zoid
  • Making of
  • team