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lok, susan pui san (2015) Trailers (RoCH Fans and Legends). [Art/Design Item]
| Type of Research: | Art/Design Item |
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| Creators: | lok, susan pui san |
| Description: | Trailers (2015, single-channel video, 4 mins) is part of 'RoCH Fans and Legends', a body of work commissioned for two solo exhibitions staged at QUAD, Derby, in 2015 and CFCCA (Centre for Chinese Contemporary Art), Manchester, 2016. The project draws on the prolific film and television adaptations of The Condor Trilogy (1957-61), a classic ‘new wuxia’ epic by Louis Cha aka Jin Yong, to explore the genre’s recurring tropes and translations in diasporic popular culture. Exhibited works included single-channel and multi-channel moving image for gallery and online, site-specific drawing and wallpaper, a limited edition concertina multiple, and an unlimited artist e-book. Works are listed as individual Art/Design items: RoCH Fans & Legends (Entries / Variations), 2013/18 hand-finished inkjet prints; Drawings, 2014; Covers I and II, 2015, animated drawings; Trailers, 2015, single-channel video, 4 mins; Trilogies, 2015, 3-screen moving image installation, 65 mins; Condor, 2015, chalk on wall; RoCH Fan, 2015, concertina multiple; RoCH Fans and Legends, 2017, unlimited artist freeebook. Arts Council Collection. |
| Keywords/subjects not otherwise listed: | wuxia, martial arts, condor trilogy, jin yong, diaspora |
| Your affiliations with UAL: | Research Centres/Networks > Decolonising Arts Institute |
| Date: | 2015 |
| Funders: | Arts Council England, Grants for the Arts, Animate Projects, University of Salford, Middlesex University |
| Related Websites: | https://spsl-projects.net/roch-fans/, https://spsl-projects.net/roch-fans/rochfansandlegendsfreeebook/, https://www.derbyquad.co.uk/whats-on/exhibition-archive/susan-pui-san-lok-roch-fans-legends, http://animateprojectsarchive.org/films/by_project/solo_commissions/roch_fans_legends, http://artcollection.salford.ac.uk/chinese-contemporary-art/, https://archive.ica.art/whats-on/artists-film-club-both-sides-now-3-final-frontiers, https://www.artscouncilcollection.org.uk/explore/artist/pui-san-lok-susan, https://artcollection.salford.ac.uk/susan-pui-san-lok-roch-fans-and-legends/ |
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| Related Exhibitions: | The Global Archive, Hanmi Gallery, London, 23 January – 9 February 2013, Presence – A Window into Contemporary Chinese Art, The Vaults, St George’s Hall, Liverpool, UK, 9 Feb – 2 June 2018, Common Third, Copperfield Gallery, London, 13 Sept – 26 Oct 2018 |
| Related Publications: | ‘RoCH Fans & Legends (Entries)’ in Juliette Kristensen & Marquard Smith eds. Archives, Journal of Visual Culture special issue (London, CA, New Delhi: Sage), v12, n3, 2013, pp.364-374 (artist pages). ISSN 1470-4129 print, 1741-2994 online. DOI 10.1177/140, ‘SPSL / A – Y (Revisited)’ in Franziska Koch & Rui Oliveira Lopes eds, special issue of Journal of Contemporary Chinese Art, v3, n1-2, 2016, pp.169-182 (featured project). ISSN 2051-7041 print, ‘D/Eluding Definition’ visual/text essay in Zoe Dunbar et al. 30 Years of Centre for Chinese Contemporary Art (CFCCA), 2016, 249pp, full colour, pp. 118-133. ISBN 978-0-9576332-5-4, ‘Testing, Contesting’ visual/text essay in Ashley Thorpe and Diana Yeh eds. Contesting British Chinese Culture (Palgrave Macmillan), 2018, pp.85-100. ISBN 978-3-319-71158-4 |
| Locations / Venues: | Location From Date To Date QUAD, Derby 19 September 2015 15 November 2015 Chinese Arts Centre, Manchester 3 June 2016 3 July 2016 Art Basel, Hong Kong 24 March 2016 26 March 2016 Oberhausen, Germany 5 May 2016 10 May 2016 HOME, Manchester 16 June 2016 16 June 2016 ICA, London 3 December 2016 3 December 2016 Indiana University, Bloomington 15 February 2017 10 March 2017 St George's Hall, Liverpool 9 February 2018 2 June 2018 Copperfield Gallery, London 13 September 2018 26 October 2018 |
| Material/Media: | Single-channel video for gallery and online |
| Date Deposited: | 03 Sep 2021 11:59 |
| Last Modified: | 03 Sep 2021 11:59 |
| Item ID: | 17198 |
| URI: | https://ualresearchonline.arts.ac.uk/id/eprint/17198 |
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