20 Jun 2016

Traces and Scenes - Homage to Akio Suzuki | Edwin Lo solo exhibition in Chicago

Jul 8 – Aug 14, 2016
Experimental Sound Studio, Chicago

Featuring a body of new works by Hong Kong artist Edwin Lo, Traces and Scenes – Homage to Akio Suzuki is the artist's first solo exhibition in the US. Organized as a multi-media three-part essay, the exhibition presents how Lo re-traces the memories of his encounters with the Japanese artist Akio Suzuki, condensing their influences, to gradually culminate into a new sonic performance practice that embraces uncertainty through intervention with a site. Inspired by the simplicity, energy and sensitivity of Suzuki's art, Lo pays homage to him and extends his exploration into a performative installation with the subjects of seascape, memory and sonic experience, directly engaging with the audience and the open environment. With video documentations, text and sonic installation and a performative sound piece by the artist as the opening event, the exhibition takes the audience along Lo's transformative journey across oceans and lands, hopping between the islands of Lamma and Ap Lei Chau in Hong Kong and Amino in Japan – Suzuki's hometown, finally arriving at the gallery in Chicago.

As part of this transformative journey, Edwin Lo presents a sonic intervention in the form of a performative installation on the rocky shore at the southeast of Ap Lei Chau, an island next to a busy shipping route in Hong Kong. Transforming recorded soundscapes above and underwater at different marine locations into materials that are simultaneously sonic and physical, site-specific and abstract, Gestures of Seascape: Ap Lei Chau invites the audience to join the artist for a moment of re-discovery and an on-going dialogue with sounds and places. Documentation of this event will be presented in the exhibition in Chicago.

Date & Time
Exhibition:
July 8 – August 14, 2016 (Saturdays & Sundays) | 1pm – 5pm
(Mondays during OPTION) | 7-10pm or by appointment

Events:
July 8, 2016 (Friday) | 7pm – 9 pm
Opening with performance by Edwin Lo
July 9, 2016 (Saturday)| 3pm – 5 pm
Artist and Curator sharing

Venue: Audible Gallery, Experimental Sound Studio (ESS)
5925 North Ravenswood, Chicago, IL, 60660, USA
ess.org

*All programs are free and open to the public.

More details: www.soundpocket.org.hk/v2/uncategorized/traces-and-scenes-homage-to-akio-suzukiedwin-lo-solo-exhibition/

Presented by: soundpocket
Supporting organization & Venue sponsor: Experimental Sound Studio
Supported by: Hong Kong Arts Development Council

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About the Artist
B.1984. Edwin Lo is a sound artist based in Hong Kong. Through different explorations on sound, he tries to develop his own philosophy and language on sound and listening: thinking sound as an object of desire, as haunting memories and experiences. Since 2008, Lo presents his body of work in different context such as writings, sound compositions, recordings, performances, videos and sound installations. His works are widely presented in various local and overseas group exhibitions, residencies and festivals such as Hong Kong Sound Stations (Hong Kong, 2009), EMERGEANDSEE Media Art Festival (Germany, 2010), Uncharted – Braunschweig Project (Germany, 2013), RPM: Ten Years of Sound Art in China (United States, Hong Kong, and Shanghai, 2013-2014), iD-Town International Residency (Shenzhen, 2014), Around Sound Art Festival (Japan, 2014) and 'Inside China' (2014) at Palais de Tokyo, Paris.
www.auditoryscenes.com

About the Curator
Solomon Yu obtained his BA Fine Arts from RMIT, Australia in 2007, and received his MA in Fine Arts from the Chinese University of Hong Kong in 2011. He is interested in exploring image as text and as a medium for thinking and experiencing and his works invite audience to review alternative possibilities behind existing image materials. As an extension to his art practice, Yu likes curating projects with fellow artists for artistic exploration and exchange. He was an assistant curator in Mobile M+: Yau Ma Tei (2012) presented by M+, museum for visual culture. In 2013 he initiated and curated Sound Of Image, a group project that investigated the functional and aesthetic potentials of audio description in the field of visual arts. Yu was invited to be the guest curator for the Library by soundpocket in 2014 and curated the online exhibition 'Silent Waves'.