Golden (Notes)

Golden (Notes) (2007) is an artist’s book that documents and extends the works developed under the rubric, Golden (2005-ongoing). Approaching the artist’s book as a curated space, documented works and events are interwoven with commissioned texts, intimating a relation to wider contexts of practice and research concerned with a critical aesthetics and poetics of memory, history, place, and translation. Golden (Notes) is envisaged as an experimental, reflexive, discursive space that reflects the project’s overarching concerns: to explore the movements and co-temporalities of languages, cultures, histories, and subjects in flux; subjects for whom aspirations to ‘settle’ and ‘return’ may not be contradictory, and ‘nostalgia’ may be understood in more complex terms than a ‘backward’ gaze