Tắm Đêm – Night Swim is a interdisciplinary poetry project that blends wordcraft with sound, performance, and visual art. Founded by Linh Thân, alongside Hoàng Vũ and collaborators, Tắm Đêm explores the transforming//transformative nature of language, its ability to shape-shift when in interaction with other arts. Through immersive, interactive experiences, the project invites participants to explore the expansive, the unknown, and the uncharted through the art of poetry.
Since its 2023 debut in the uncanny setting of a nightclub’s dark room, Tắm Đêm has been reimagining what creative spaces can be. By transforming unexpected environments into vibrant fields for experimentation, collaboration, and artistic expression, the project invites people to see spaces as places for play, exploration, and connection. Central to its vision are performances of poetry, collaborative writing, and a dynamic process of finding, listening to, and crafting poems together.
Linh Linh Thân // lân
(b.1997, Hanoi, Vietnam)
Linh is a photographer and filmmaker living in Saigon, Vietnam.
Linh writes for, organizes and facilitates Tắm Đêm (@tamdem_nightswim), in parallel with researching on and developing experimental, collaborative ways of making poetry. They also work at RMIT University Vietnam’s Digital Film and Video department, where they also facilitate a variety of film-making workshops.
Their pictures and poetry both tend towards obscured faces and the color blue.
Hoàng Vũ_somethingmaker
https://somethingmaker.com/
(b.1996, Mekong Delta, Vietnam)
Based in Saigon (HCMC), Vũ is a multidisciplinary artist working across sound, poetry, visual arts. His recent research and projects explore Hò—a vernacular call-and-response chant from the Mekong Delta, where he was born and raised—as a living form of sonic communication. By weaving these traditions into contemporary soundscapes, he traces how sound and collective memory flow through canals, echo on water, and fracture in the noise of present-day boat engines.
Vũ is organizer of Tắm Đêm_nightswim—a fluid platform for sound, poetry, and performance; organizer of MoTsound—an experimental sound project; manager and technician at MoT+++/A.Farm—an artist-run residency in partnership with Goethe-Institut HCMC.
