Season 2 closes with a conversation between Victoria Pham and Emma Lo. Victoria Pham introduces us to the many intersections of her work as an evolutionary biologist and artist. The conversation focuses on rhythm and listening in Pham’s research and practices, and Pham's and James Nguyen's open source project RE:SOUNDING.

In conversation with

Victoria Pham

Victoria Pham is an Australian artist, evolutionary biologist, writer and composer. She is based between Paris and Sydney. Originally trained as an archaeologist, she is a current PhD candidate in Biological Anthropology at the University of Cambridge, St John's College.

As an evolutionary biologist and archaeologist, her specialisation is in bioacoustics, the evolution of sound-signalling and acoustic mapping technologies. Victoria has worked with several international museums and institutions such as the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History, and has conducted solo fieldwork around the world.

Her artistic practice is driven by explorations into the sonic connections across nature; practices of decolonisation and listening deeply. The hallmark of her interdisciplinary practice is her belief that a partnership with Nature is fundamental, and that Nature is a collaborator to her design, research and sound-based work. Victoria continues to pursue her work in biodesign through research into bioacoustics and mycology which inform the cross-form approaches that structure her creative process. This is emblematic in 2023 when she founded biodesign and acoustic ecology studio, EARTHLY FUTURES, based in Paris, France.

Website

Instagram

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Youtube

Vimeo

Check out the RE:SOUNDING Đông Sơn Drums STEMS

Dong Son Archive

Credits

Sounds

Bronze Echoes (Victoria Pham)

La Grotte (Victoria Pham)

Terra (Victoria Pham)

Medium Mallet (RE:SOUNDING)

Photos

Cover (Domesticus Venus, Installation Image in KINGS Gallery 2022. Film, Video and Sculpture by Pham. Image by Aaron Claringbold)

Portrait of Victoria Pham (Pham presenting for TERRA MonoPoly By Liquid Architecture 2022)

Podcast Info

Concept

Dr. Layla Zami, Postdoctoral Researcher in Performance Studies

Moderator
Emma Lo, PhD researcher in Theater Studies

Producer
Freie Universität Berlin, Collaborative Research Center Intervening Arts
(SFB 1512 Intervenierende Künste, TP B05)

Funded by
German Research Society (DFG)

In Cooperation with

FU Berlin, Institut für Theaterwissenschaft

Eufoniker Audioproduktion