Tomad, Tomggg, PARKGOLF, similarobjects, Tenkitsune, Astronormous, and LARRIA

Part of the The Japan Foundation Asia Center’s media art exchange program launched in 2016, Bordering Practice is a project that encourages interchange among the next generation of talent with a focus on technology-driven creativity and the electronic music scene that has witnessed exciting growth in Asia through collaborations between local artists. The project also serves as an opportunity to showcase the buoyant youth culture of Asia and attract media attraction on these artists, and help set in motion new collaborations and international activities.

Having connected communities in Japan, the Philippines, and Indonesia, the project now extends the scope of its activities to Vietnam. While music listening services have continued to globalize thanks to the Internet, exchange through musical production starts from a basis in more personal spaces, as if it is linking up individual people’s bedrooms. And it is here that we perhaps find the intentionality of music or the sense of enjoying music that is shared across national and territorial borders. Interpreting music as a cloud (a mass or accumulation) of rooms (personal spaces), this program presents cute and at times cool performances by seven musicians from Tokyo, Manila, Ho Chi Minh City, and Hanoi.

Designed by The Lab Saigon