LENA LINH LÊ
She Knew Who Was Found In Buffalo, and How To Find Buffalo
Beneath the Emboldened
A Tongue Has Been Scraped [To Strike the Score]
Sound As Ritual Matter
MourningMorning/MorningMourning
Everytime I Light A Joint, Ash Decends From Incense
Select Early Works
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2024
single channel video installation, 00:01:53 min
stone, mechanical piping, steel, scratchboard, U.S. harvested bamboo, guitar string, bass key tuning peg
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When the barrel of this gun was assembled, a line of drums awaited its arrival
To communicate across stretches of land,of men, meant anticipating the drum first
A heart beat comprised of cracked blood and tightly
stretched flesh made sheets of men believe they are
capable of being a singular body in control
Sound warfare had begun as a method of dance. Marching bands dictating how one's motor functions would sync up to the next. Military manuals were musical notations
Denoting when a battle was advancing, or when it was necessary to surrender their body
The marching band was a celebration of destruction
In A Tongue Has Been Scraped (2024), a Ðàn Bầu is posed as a light antitank weapon, or LAW. Sound is engaged with the likes of a trigger on a gun, and A Tongue is an indicator to future instruments, with the hopes to conjure an artillery orchestra that deters from defacing the codes of our RNA strands, and favors an ensemble’s ability to restructure the brain. To maintain its integrity to constructively re/generate memory.