Songs VI

Songs VI (2017)

susan pui san lok

7.25 min Located between two bridges at either end of Calle de le Erbe, the works provide entry and exit points to the Diaspora Pavilion, Venice Biennale 2017.

Songs VI is the latest of several audio interludes ranging from a few seconds to a few minutes, in which instances of the lyric ‘golden’ collide to produce condensed choruses at turns joyful, plaintive, and wistful. Songs I-VI (2005-17) is one strand of an ongoing project called Golden, which includes moving image (Vistas, Years), installation (Untitled (Ballroom), (Pavilion), (Shower)), and participatory performances (Mobile Ballroom, Mobile Chorus). Songs VI is based on fifty tracks nominated by fellow artists and curators associated with the Diaspora Pavilion.

Thanks to: Larry Achiampong, Kat Anderson, Barby Asante, Chi Bagtas, David A. Bailey, Adelaide Bannerman, Sokari Douglas Camp, Libita Clayton, Kimathi Donkor, Ellen Gallagher, Enam Gbewonyo, Nicola Green, Joy Gregory, Melanie Keen, Dave Lewis, Hew Locke, Gabria Lupone, Claire Oboussier, Vong Phaophanit, Khadija Saye, Sunil Shah, Erika Tan, Jessica Taylor, Barbara Walker, and Abbas Zahedi.

Songs VI is dedicated to the Diaspora Pavilion, in memory of Khadija Saye.

susan pui san lok is an artist and writer, working across installation, moving image, sound, performance and text. She exhibited with the Diaspora Pavilion during the 57th Venice Biennale. Other projects include Deviant Practice at Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, and Black Artists and Modernism at UAL and Middlesex University.

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