GOLDEN

Day 3 – Trialogue – a conversation in English takes place in the Lower Space, between with Sonia Boyce, Irit Rogoff, and Naomi Siderfin, three perspectives on nostalgia, aspiration, and diaspora, from disparate artistic, curatorial and theoretical practices, chaired by Joanne Morra. My poor, simultaneous Cantonese translation is delivered facing the speakers as if in a parallel conversation, but the audience – in terms of who has access to Cantonese – is limited to a very few, so it’s as much a conversation with myself, that nevertheless inevitably distracts – as a continuous aural stream, now a low murmur, now staccato, that rises and falls in volume. A performative attempt to address, enact and amplify something of the duplicity, multiplicity and hierarchy of often quiet and unnoticeable yet necessary cultural and linguistic manoeuvres.

I make little sense. It is incredibly tiring. I stop, and start shaking with relief…