Text Catalogue "The Month of Images", 2008 - French Consulate, HCMC Vietnam

curatored by Philippe Piguet & Bertrand Peret (text) about Untitled (D.E.A.F.  D.E.C.A.D.E.), 2008

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It has only been around the last thirty years that sound, not in its conventional musical form, but as an artistic material, had been seen as an artistic pratice in its own right. TBG is one of those artists who very naturally added this material to his palette. A multimedia artist in the widest sense of the word, Thierry chooses no one medium over another, but picks according to its functional relevance in the given situation, that is to say according to the physical place and the public present in that space. His work can thus be seen as a result of the situation. An effort of adaptation is required by the public who are to be interviewed, even provoked, their senses being sollicited at times almost violently. Neither the work nor the spectators can content themselves here with being passive. The often minimal and very radical installation is existence in the simplest sense of the word. Mixing up his mediums in such a manner, TBG has finally succeeded in confusing the genres, the exhibition has to be comprehended in a new way almost as a concert. A concert of mediums and meanings, the work is an ensemble that becomes a musical group, in the present case, it would be more like a heavy metal group, that makes you react if not physically, then at least mentally.



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Sunday October 12th at 7pm
Labo Wonderful At Cage – 3A Ton Duc Thang, District 1, HCMCity_VIETNAM

Film programmation by artist Thierry Bernard Gotteland 

+ Experimental live music performances:

7pm: "Metal: a Headbanger's Journey" by Sam Dunn and Scot Mcfadyen (documentary, 2005, 30mn extract – an antropologic analysis of the heavy metal movement)
 

7.30pm: Live music performance by Thierry Bernard-Gotteland and Dirk Stromberg (improvised digital & electro-accoustic music)
 

8pm: "Black metal: A documentary"(documentary, 2007, 30mn - presentation of the norwagian black metal scene)
 

8.30: "Satan Rides the Media" by Torstein Grude (documentary, 1998, 1h – role of the media in the creation of the Black Metal legend)
 

10pm: Live music performance by Vu Nhat Tan, Tri Minh and Mic Mac (electronic improvisation noise & beat)