thảo bùi

  • moving image
    • descriptors i: blind/sighted (2025)
    • brighter days (2024)
    • blowing/breathing (2023)
  • participatory
    • everyday notes (2025)
  • photography
    • everything that tries (2024)
    • soft tissue (2023)
    • 1/4 (2023)
  • drawing
    • head/first (2023)
  • about
  • contact

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thảo bùi

  • moving image
    • descriptors i: blind/sighted (2025)
    • brighter days (2024)
    • blowing/breathing (2023)
  • participatory
    • everyday notes (2025)
  • photography
    • everything that tries (2024)
    • soft tissue (2023)
    • 1/4 (2023)
  • drawing
    • head/first (2023)
  • about
  • contact

descriptors i: blind/sighted (excerpt)

Single channel video, black and white, sound

Total duration: 26 min 54 sec.

In this work: Hoàng Văn Lý, Phạm Mỹ Linh, Trần Quốc Hoàn, Bùi Đức Thảo, Hồ Minh Quang, Đặng Thị Mai Hoa 

Blind and sighted participants take turns offering descriptors of one another. No explanations are allowed; while one person speaks, the other listens. Participants may rely on sight, sound, touch, memory, or inference.

The work follows how two people approach one another through unequal and shifting forms of access, without ever fully arriving at the same understanding of the other.

Thảo Bùi, Descriptors, 2025, video still of two participants touching each other in a descriptive encounter.
Thảo Bùi, Descriptors, 2025, video still of two participants shaking hands in a descriptive encounter.