Tam Khoa Vu

HYBRID CONDITION: TURBO explores cultural hybridity through a generative multi-screen projection and audio installation using a blend of personal, archival, and modern-day footage. By juxtaposing various moving images, this video installation highlights the complex interconnectedness of Asian diasporic culture and the violence of cultural colonialism. The work is projected onto two screens stretched with fabric, allowing the viewer to see both projections simultaneously. Each video varies in runtime, creating an asynchronous montage with unpredictable moments of overlapping imagery. 

As the artist describes: “The layering effect of video and meaning highlights how absolutely fried it can feel to be a person of colour/minority within a White space. But sometimes it can also be quite beautiful when the images sync up. Like I mentioned, it’s unpredictable. This is life: sometimes it’s nice, sometimes it’s chaos.”

Tam states that “the work tries to give you a sense of my experience, what it feels like to have the HYBRID CONDITION. And if you have the HYBRID CONDITION already, well – this is how it looks from my window. Double screen projection. Loud dance music. Flashing lights. Some violence, some memes.”