Anh Vo, Song and Sex: Before the Revolution
Curated by Alhena Katsof
May 10 - June 21, 2026
Opening Sunday, May 10, 7-9pm
Gallery hours, Thursday – Sunday, noon-7pm

It is not a reconstruction. It’s not preservation. It’s an attempt to sit
inside the ambivalence between inheritance and experimentation, devotion and
irreverence. – Anh Vo

PARTICIPANT INC presents Vietnamese choreographer and performance artist Anh Vo’s first solo exhibition in New York City, Song and Sex: Before the Revolution, curated by Alhena Katsof. This unfolding exhibition exists in tandem with a series of performances that will take place weekly in the gallery. Each performance is a distinctive attempt at resurrection, invoked by an ever-evolving cast of artists, dancers, and musicians.

Song and Sex: Before the Revolution is the culmination of a year-long project during
which Vo apprenticed with Vũ Thuỳ Linh and Phạm Đình Hoằng, two master-musicians who specialize in Ca Trù. This dying form of northern Vietnamese chamber music, austere and trance-like, is built on intricate poetic meters and a striking interplay between voice, drum, and lute. In the 20th century, it was condemned and effectively banned by the Communist government because of its association with prostitution and opium culture.

Performance Schedule:

Resurrection #1: it's not a revolution without blood
Sunday, May 10, 7-8pm
Participants: Anh Vo, Kristel Baldoz, Kyle b. co., Jessica Pavone, Marija Kovačević,
Natalie Zhao

Resurrection #2: how's it going down there?
Sunday, May 17, 2-5pm
Participants: Anh Vo, Kristel Baldoz, Justin Cabrillos, Isaac Silber

Resurrection #3: death divination
Sunday, May 24, 12-8pm
Participants: Anh Vo, Jessica Pavone, Marija Kovačević

Resurrection #4: it was a hand, maternal yet formless
Sunday, May 31, 7-8pm
Participants: Anh Vo, Sto Len, Isaac Silber

Resurrection #5: a listening session
Sunday, June 7, 1-2pm
Participants: Anh Vo, Isaac Silber

Resurrection #6: another death divination
Sunday, June 14, 12-8pm
Participants: Anh Vo, Jessica Pavone, Marija Kovačević, gabby fluke-mogul

Resurrection #7: sex on sundays
Sunday, June 21, 7-8pm
Participants: Anh Vo, Kristel Baldoz, Justin Cabrillos, Jessica Pavone, Marija
Kovačević, gabby fluke-mogul

Public Talks:

André Lepecki, Ann Pellegrini, and Anh Vo, moderated by Alhena Katsof
Tuesday, May 12, 7-8:30pm

Barley Norton and Anh Vo
Thursday, May 21, On Zoom, 5-6:30pm

Summer Kim Lee, Anh Vo, and Alhena Katsof
Wednesday, June 17, 6-7:30