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Sonic Soundings ##GlobalFeedback## Erika Tan

191,000,000: International Migrants 65,600,000: Displaced People 28,000: Forced to flee a day 22,5000,000: Refugees 10,000,000: Stateless People 20: Forcibly displaced every minute

3.40 min (PAUSE TO EXIT) Train Station/Bus Dept/Airport Routes/Waterways

Consisting of a series of texts and non-diegetic sounds this curatorial intervention, or feedback is located on the physical edges of Venice, where land meets water, and people arrive and depart. The texts restate historical migratory events from the ancient to modern world whilst the sounds of pro-open borders, anti-state and pro-immigration protest amplify the crisis in migratory diasporic and transnational representations.

Texts and sound selection/edit: Erika Tan Sound research: Sara Ng

Erika Tan is an artist and curator whose practice is primarily research-led. Recent projects have focused on the postcolonial and transnational, working with archival artefacts, exhibition histories, received narratives, contested heritage, subjugated voices and the transnational movement of ideas, people and objects. She exhibited in the Diaspora Pavilion during the 57th Venice Biennale (2017).

Sara Ng is a recent History graduate from Oxford University interested in the intersection between art and politics. She has archived the exhibitions at Modern Art Oxford of artists such as Tracey Emin, Barbara Kruger and Tim Head.

Erika Tan & Sara Ng have worked together previously on Tan's film ‘Apa Jika, The Mis-Placed Comma’, currently showing as part of ‘The “Forgotten” Weaver’, in The Diaspora Pavilion.

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