Dam Van Huynh will premiere a new durational performance installation on Saturday 12 December 2026, 3-6pm at V&A East Storehouse, Weston Collections Hall.
Audiences are welcome to enter and leave the installation freely and may stay for as long as they wish. Please note that if the space reaches full capacity, visitors may be asked to wait until space becomes available. This event is free of charge and no booking is required.
Location:
V&A East Storehouse
Parkes Street, Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park
Hackney Wick
London
E20 3AX
Bringing together contemporary dance, visual arts and sound, the three-hour performance creates a space for people to gather, pause and think about peace. In response to the current geopolitical climate and the rise of extremist viewpoints, Van Huynh invites audiences to take part in an act of collective meditation. Rather than telling people what peace should look like, Poster For Peace offers an opportunity to reflect, connect and simply be together.
As a displaced person whose family fled Vietnam after the war, Van Huynh draws on his own experience of displacement and the ongoing process of understanding its impact. Developed following his participation in the Robert Rauschenberg Residency in 2025, the work responds to Rauschenberg’s artistic practice and his response to the Vietnam War. It is a call for peace, but also an invitation to consider the importance of allowing space for mourning, reflection and dialogue.
‘There is no time limit to mourning. With this work, I’m going to mourn a little bit longer. It is about bringing value to this ability to be human and sit with this notion of an act of mourning as a prayer for a better tomorrow. The work is a gathering space to allow that moment to be human.’ Dam Van Huynh
Presented in collaboration with V&A East Storehouse
Supported using public funding by the National Lottery through Arts Council England
Further developed during the Rauschenberg Residency 2025 through the Robert Rauschenberg Foundation
With further support from Wan Sha Performing Arts Center, Certain Blacks, Centre 151