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GOLDEN

Mobile Ballroom

susan pui san lok

susan pui san lok, Mobile Ballroom, 2006 (event flyer)

Mobile Ballroom, 10 November 2006, Vauxhall, London.  
Above image (c)Julian Stallabrass. Images below (c)susan pui san lok

Mobile Ballroom was a performance / intervention inspired by the mobile clubbing phenomenon, and formed part of Golden (Lessons), an exhibition and research residency at Beaconsfield, London, punctuated by a series of live events and performance interventions. Golden (Lessons) took up motifs of ballroom and song as vehicles of nostalgia, aspiration and cultivation, continuing an ongoing series of works exploring nostalgia, aspiration and diaspora, under the rubric Golden. For Mobile Ballroom e-flyers were circulated with the following instructions and tips:

Instructions
  • Dress Up
  • Show Up With MP3 / CD Player
  • Turn On Music At Exact Given Time & Start Dancing
  • Follow Dancers No.50 Into The GOLDEN HOUR
  • Make The World Your Ballroom
Tips
  • Glide to the music of your choice or download some ballroom tunes here
  • Plug a headphone splitter into your stereo to share your music with a dancing partner

Top: Ballroom Essentials: Athan Maroulis (Cleopatra / The Orchard, 2006)
Bottom: Beaconsfield, London, location map (click to enlarge)

Acknowledgements

Lessons was a Beaconsfield commission, made possible with funding from the AHRC and Middlesex University, and the support of Resonance 104.4fm. Thanks also to L.C. Lok, Annie Pui Ling Lok, Mat Davidson, Ben Cummins, and Jenevieve Chang, for their generous contributions.

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