TO GO OVERSEAS / Helixanthera Parasitica

TO GO OVERSEAS (5) Helixanthera Parasitica

Lizza May David

00:30 min (walk slowly along the sea front) Located on the sea front near the Giardini Vaparetto Stop, two parallel lines of sounds exist. The first a series of botanical references and the second a collection of more personal archival and collected audio. Follow the numerical order, or explore your own connections and routes. The work is bookended by two songs.

TO GO OVERSEAS TO TAKE CARE TO WORK ABROAD TO WRITE A LETTER TO REMEMBER TO MAINTAIN HOPE TO CRY TO HAVE A BETTER LIFE TO SEARCH FOR GREENER PASTURES TO COME OUT WITH SOMETHING BETTER TO FORGET TO COME BACK TO SACRIFICE TO SUFFER TO SEE DIFFERENT THINGS

TO GO OVERSEAS gathers intergenerational voices on how leaving the homeland affects familial and cultural bonds of Filipinos. Interweaving personal, fictional, found and documentary footage with readings of scientific texts endangered plants, the voices construct an expanded narrative about love, loss and collective experience, staged on the waters of Venice and where the water meets land.

Credits: Footage from ‘Plants’, Lizza May David, 2016. Source: A Pictorial Guide to the Native Plants of Mt. Tapulao, Philippine Native Conservation Society Inc. and Wildlife Center, Quezon City, 2014, courtesy of botanist Ulysses Ferreras.

-------------------- Lizza May David’s previous work has been autobiographical and investigates issues of identity, labour/migration and memory. Currently she juxtaposes media-based materials with a studio-based painting practice in order to question indexical affinities and investigate different perspectives on painting within a transnational framework. David studied at the Academy of Fine Arts Nuremberg and University of Arts Berlin, Germany. --------------------

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