2022-ongoing
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Centenary (2022-ongoing) is a long poem/script, soundwork, experimental live assemblage, and expanded moving image work-in-progress. Evoking entangled narratives of Chinese migration spanning 300 years within wider colonial histories, the work touches on the artist’s experience growing up in a post-war council house on the Essex/London border. Centenary is envisaged as the second in a cycle of three works, beginning with Altar Notes (2012), a micro-play commissioned and staged in Hong Kong as part of programme of writing and performance from Hong Kong, Beijing and London marking the 15th anniversary of the Hong Kong handover.
Commissioned by Create London for the Becontree Forever centenary programme, Centenary was recorded in London in with the actors David KS Tse and Crystal LK Yu and premiered as a Resonance radio broadcast and live stream on 1st July 2022, coinciding with the 25th anniversary of the Hong Kong handover. It was subsequently presented as sound installation in esea contemporary’s project space, and performed as an experimental live assemblage.
Summer 2026
Exhibition to be announced
Expanded audio visual installation
25 April 2025
Asymmetry International Symposium, The Courtauld Institute of Art
Live assemblage with video, audio and spoken word
22 July – 29 October 2023
esea contemporary, Project Space
4-channel sound installation
1 July 2022
ResonanceFM
Broadcast
Centenary (2022) long poem and spoken word recording, 34 mins
Written, directed and produced by susan pui san lok / susan lok pui san
Read by David KS Tse and Crystal LK Yu
Sound recording, editing and production by Cam Griff
Commissioned by Create London, supported by the National Lottery Heritage Fund
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