GOLDEN

Notes

susan pui san lok, Golden (Notes), 2007

susan pui san lok, Golden (Notes), 2007, 180mmx180mm, 96pp, full colour,
ISBN 978-0-9551849-2-5.

Golden (Notes) (2007) is an artist’s book project that seeks to document and extend the exploratory research that represents the ongoing series, Golden. Approaching the artist’s book as a curated space, documented works and events are interwoven with commissioned texts, intimating a relation to wider contexts of practice and research concerned with a critical aesthetics and poetics of memory, history, place, and translation. The aim is to produce an experimental, reflexive, discursive space in which to explore the languages, concepts and processes of representation in migration and diaspora, that traverse Golden as an ongoing practice-led research project, reflecting the project’s overall ambition: to explore the movements and co-temporalities of languages, cultures, histories, and subjects in flux; subjects for whom aspirations to ‘settle’ and ‘return’ may not be contradictory, and ‘nostalgia’ may be understood in more complex terms than a ‘backward’ gaze.

Contributors include Mimi Lok (a San Francisco-based writer), Rob Stone (Senior Research Fellow, Middlesex University, and author of the forthcoming Auditions: Architecture and Aurality, MIT Press, 2006), and Gilane Tawadros (curator of the 2006 Brighton Photo Biennale, critic, and founding director of inIVA, London), as well as edited transcripts from Trialogue (featuring Sonia Boyce, Irit Rogoff and Naomi Siderfin), annotated by Joanne Morra (Reader, History of Art, Central Saint Martins, University of the Arts, London).

Designed by CHK Design and printed by Martin Edwards Ltd, Golden (Notes) will be produced as both ebook and a limited edition of 1000 copies.

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