Chorus / Mobile Chorus (2006, 2014, 2017)

Drawing on Songs I-III (2005), the artist developed a simple 3-minute score for voices, called Chorus (2006), and recorded piano instrumental versions. For Mobile Chorus, amateur singers are invited to sing along to 5 different vocal parts on headphones. Isolated by their headphones and slightly out of synch with their instrumental tracks and each other, the singers form an ad hoc chorus and awkward collective carrying the single lyric ‘golden’. Mobile Chorus, Mobile Ballroom (2006), and the later DIY Ballroom/Live (2007-8), took their cue from the flash-mob phenomenon, and the idea of ‘engineered spontaneity’. Mobile Chorus was first performed on 18 October 2006, at the opening of Golden (Lessons), a solo exhibition and research residency at Beaconsfield, London. It was later performed at MAI, Montreal Arts Culturel (12 April 2014); and at the close of Diaspora Pavilion (26 November 2017)