Artist: Edwin Lo
Title: Rabbit Travelogue: Central Region | ©
Date: July, 2007 – January 2010
Duration: 10’29
photo by: Edwin Lo
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THE SOUND
Rehabilitation, demolition, collective memories, public spaces…..with no doubt, these words can be considered as the most frequent words appearing in the discussion of urban planning in Hong Kong. Streets, spaces, the aura of daily life, landscape and soundscape are undergoing the rapid changes in recent years. Behind these changes, what is the mechanism or ideology indeed? Taiwanese essayist and cultural critic, Lung Ying-tai, articulates the term “central value” which describes the domination and limitation of the perspective in observing Hong Kong as well as main and absolute value in determining the urban development of the city. Wandering in different places or spaces and collection of soundscape in Central and Sheung Wan, what Rabbit Travelogue: Central Region suggests that we observe, correspond, and question the central value by using sound and its archival and creative practice. By continuously recording and observation of the places around the areas, this project aims at portraying different possibilities of understanding, constituting and examining the places where the artist has been over Central and Sheung Wan. Through the attentive listening about places, events and happening of the areas, how does the artist and listeners go deeper in searching for the other side of certain memories and emotions the confront the central value?
THE ARTIST
Born in 1984. Edwin Lo is a sound artist, sound designer, field recordist and phonographer form Hong Kong graduated from School of Creative Media (SCM), City University of Hong Kong. Through different experiments on sound, Edwin Lo tries to develop his own philosophy and language on sound and listening: thinking sound as an object of desire, as haunting memories and experiences, articulation of our consciousness and awareness on listening and the evolution of listening. Edwin Lo’s works were published in various places such as Hong Kong (Lona Records), China (Little Sound), Japan(Niko Edition) and Mexico (Mandorla). In 2007, he established Rabbit Travelogue with video and film director Rita Hui and they are producing an on-going dialogue between sound and vision. Lo’s sound works were exhibited since 2008 in various local and overseas exhibitions. In 2010 spring, He finished his new granted project, Rabbit Travelogue: Central Region, supported by Hong Kong Art Development Council.
links: http://rabbit-travelogue.com/centralregion/ | http://rabbit-travelogue.com/fragments