Diaspora Pavilion [strikethrough]

Untitled (West), 2018, shimmer curtain, lighting filter Golden Hour, 2006, audio, 57′ 24″ (looped) Songs I-VI, 2005-17, audio, various durations Vistas, 2005, single-channel video triptych, 5' The above works were exhibited at in the West Gallery of the Wolverhampton Art Gallery, UK, 10 Feb – 29 April 2018, as part of Diaspora Pavilion [strikethrough] It followed earlier stagings in 'Golden' and 'Golden (Lessons)' two solo exhibitions at Chinese Arts Centre, Manchester and Beaconsfield Contemporary Art, London, in 2006; at the !st Asia Biennial and 5th Guangzhou Triennial, 11 Dec 2015-10 April 2016; and Diaspora Pavilion at Palazzo Pisani Santa Marina, Venice, 13 May – 27 November 2017. Golden (2005-present) is an ongoing project comprising a series of works across video, installation, sound, performance, text, and improvised participatory live events. The project seeks to explore nostalgia, aspiration, and possibilities for a critical aesthetics and poetics of place in diaspora. Works (listed as individual Art/Design items) include: Vistas (2005, video triptych); Songs I-VI (2005-17, audio interludes); Years (2006, 2-channel video); Lessons (2006, installation and live events); Golden Hour (2006, audio and broadcast); Mobile Ballroom (2006); Mobile Chorus (2006, 2014, 2017); Golden (Notes) (2007, artist book); Untitled (Pavilion) (2017, installation); Untitled (Shower) (2017, installation); Untitled (West) (2018, installation)