Join Gourd Canteen for Revolving, a screening of Hong Kong-based artist Lo Lai Lai’s video works on 25 March 2023 at Goldsmiths CCA’s Residency Space. The screening will feature video essays from 2018 to 2023, including Lo’s recent work, A Messenger - Passerby in Our Battlefields 飛行備忘 (2022-2023).

The screening will be followed by a share-and-discuss session with the artist joining online to share how farming and artistic creation are interwoven in her practice. The discussion will also explore her research on diasporic experience and non-human species.

Showing:

A Messenger - Passerby in Our Battlefields 飛行備忘

2022-2023

28 min 5 sec

(Excerpt: https://vimeo.com/799611613/a6e12d5489 )

This is the follow-up episode of Lo’s 2020 film The Days Before The Silent Spring. In the wake of the recent growth and movement of the Hong Kong diaspora, Lo interviewed farmers who left Hong Kong and those who chose to stay. The film speaks of one’s urge to self-actualise in a turbulent world.

The screening will show a full-length combined-channel version of the film and the documentation of its installation.

An Excerpt of The Day Before The Silent Spring 《寂靜春天來臨前》

2020

5 min

The video installation The Day Before The Silent Spring weaves together a spectrum of footage shot from different points of view in a homage to the decade-long journey of the farming collective Sangwoodgoon, to which she belongs, while reflecting on the multitude of worlds tied together and a myriad of life-forms germinated by the practice of farming. It contains the artist’s personal conversations with Sangwoodgoon’s members.

The work is currently on show in State-less 無國界’, a group exhibition presented by Kakilang at Two Temple Place, London (until 9th April 2023). The exhibition shows works by 10 international East and Southeast Asian artists. It asks what it means to have a complex identity, influenced by one’s background as well as ountry of origin, how East and Southeast Asian heritage can be engaged politically, and how it can challenge the wider public.

The screening will show a single-channel excerpt of this work.

Deep Flight 飛天潛水艇

2018