Art Connects | The Art of Sound

with Samson Young, Nancy Tam and Remy Siu

Thursday, November 19 |  5:30 PM

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Presented in dialogue with the exhibition Uncommon Language, in this edition of Art Connects, three artists discuss “score” or “scoring” in relation to their own interdisciplinary sound art practices, with special focus on the territory of collaboration and communication across multi-media practices.

Samson Young will speak to his approaches to notation and scoring through a selection of recent works and address how these approaches relate to systems of knowledge. Nancy Tam will share her recent work wreckage upon wreckage, which considers the process of moulting and transformation. Finally, Remy Siu will discuss the algorithmic theatre of Foxconn Frequency (no.3) – for three visibly Chinese performers, a performance that moves through a series of tests and mini-games sourced from piano training. The goal of this conversation will be to introduce a wider public to the multifarious nature of sound art.

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ABOUT THE ARTISTS

Remy Siu 蕭逸南 is a composer and new media artist based in Vancouver, BC (located on the unceded, ancestral and occupied traditional lands of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Səl̓ílwətaɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) and Skwxwú7mesh (Squamish) Nations of the Coast Salish peoples). Recently, his work has involved the construction of automated and variable performance apparatuses that employ light, sound, software, and the body. He is interested in creating friction and stakes between the performer, the interface, and the system through the use of game mechanics and failure. His output spans chamber music, dance, theatre, installations, and audio-visual work. He is currently the Co-Artistic Director of Hong Kong Exile, the Director and Manager at the Gold Saucer Studio and Curator-in-Residence at Contemporary Musiking Hong Kong.

Sound artist Nancy Tam lives and works on the unceded territories of the Sḵwx̱wú7mesh, Musqueam and Tsleil-Waututh Nations. She is interested in triangulation between sound, space and body to investigate tendencies of global and local mobilization of humans, objects and events. Her work fuses sound and performance as primary mediums to making interdisciplinary work. Tam is a founding member of the Vancouver-based performance collective, A Wake of Vultures, and of the Toronto-based Toy Piano Composers collective.

Multi-disciplinary artist Samson Young was trained as a composer and graduated with a Ph.D. in Music Composition from Princeton University in 2013. In 2017, he represented Hong Kong in a solo project at the Hong Kong Pavilion of the 57th Venice Biennale. Other solo exhibitions include the De Appel, Amsterdam; Kunsthalle Düsseldorf; Talbot Rice Gallery, Edinburgh; SMART Museum, Chicago; Centre for Contemporary Chinese Art in Manchester; M+ Pavilion, Hong Kong; Mori Art Museum, Tokyo; and Ryosoku-in at Kenninji Temple, Kyoto, among others. Group exhibitions include Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York; Gropius Bau, Berlin; Performa 19, New York; Biennale of Sydney; Shanghai Biennale; National Museum of Art, Osaka; National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Seoul; and documenta 14: documenta radio. He was the recipient of the BMW / Art Basel Art Journey Award, Hong Kong Arts Development Council Artist of the Year Award, Prix Ars Electronica, and the Bloomberg Emerging Artist Award. In 2020, he was awarded the inaugural Sigg Prize. His works are held in the collections of Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York; M+ Museum, Hong Kong; Mori Art Museum, Japan; the Israel Museum, Jerusalem; and Kadist, among others.