Tell us about yourself and your artistic journey.
I have a lot of mental blocks as an artist and I find it hard to call myself one because I always compare myself with others and think that I am not good enough. But covid came and I used the solitude and isolation to dedicate myself to the process of making art, and learned how to express myself through video editing, storytelling, and movement. My artistic journey is a reflective one, I do not have the powers to create by imagining the future or the unknown, but I can piece together what had happened to me in the past.
What’s the story behind the piece you’re sharing with us?
This piece is a mash up of how certain places in my neighbourhood make me feel anxious + stories of how my neighbourhood was when my parents were young. I feature sounds in my neighbourhood - e.g. I recorded sounds of frogs croaking, the cars on the highway, and people talking in the park. I also feature voice recordings of my parents and Grandma retelling me the stories I have heard when I was young.
How does the QR code street exhition format shape your approach to the viewer’s experience?
My video dance is about my experiences in a public space from past to present. Although it occurs halfway across the world, I hope viewers can stop to think about their connections with mundane or overlooked places. When we give these places some thought and attention, their stories will come through. It will take some effort and inspiration to focus on public spaces though... just like how it will take some effort and inspiration to view works through scanning QR codes along a route that people use to commute. We are only part of your journey if you choose to view us:)
With our exhibition theme in mind, when did you last get wonderfully lost—in a city, a thought, or your studio?
2 weeks ago when I woke up at 4am on a work day to write down my dream with a cup of tea. I wrote it down and gave it my own ending.
If your art could speak, what would it say to passersby?
It would whisper "boo!"
Tell us about yourself and your artistic journey.
I have a lot of mental blocks as an artist and I find it hard to call myself one because I always compare myself with others and think that I am not good enough. But covid came and I used the solitude and isolation to dedicate myself to the process of making art, and learned how to express myself through video editing, storytelling, and movement. My artistic journey is a reflective one, I do not have the powers to create by imagining the future or the unknown, but I can piece together what had happened to me in the past.
What’s the story behind the piece you’re sharing with us?
This piece is a mash up of how certain places in my neighbourhood make me feel anxious + stories of how my neighbourhood was when my parents were young. I feature sounds in my neighbourhood - e.g. I recorded sounds of frogs croaking, the cars on the highway, and people talking in the park. I also feature voice recordings of my parents and Grandma retelling me the stories I have heard when I was young.
How does the QR code street exhition format shape your approach to the viewer’s experience?
My video dance is about my experiences in a public space from past to present. Although it occurs halfway across the world, I hope viewers can stop to think about their connections with mundane or overlooked places. When we give these places some thought and attention, their stories will come through. It will take some effort and inspiration to focus on public spaces though... just like how it will take some effort and inspiration to view works through scanning QR codes along a route that people use to commute. We are only part of your journey if you choose to view us:)
With our exhibition theme in mind, when did you last get wonderfully lost—in a city, a thought, or your studio?
2 weeks ago when I woke up at 4am on a work day to write down my dream with a cup of tea. I wrote it down and gave it my own ending.
If your art could speak, what would it say to passersby?
It would whisper "boo!"
Signal Station
Signal Station
Description
Description
Digital Dance Video
10mins 40sec
2021
Digital Dance Video
10mins 40sec
2021
Eu Su Lynn’s Palimpsest is a performance piece, utilising visual and audio techniques to demonstrate the power in recollecting and expressing the personal impact of generational trauma. As these traits, habits and stories are passed down, akin to an inheritance, Lynn uses Palimpsest as a tool to unfurl the conditionings of the mind, deconstructing movements in places that are permanent, yet contingent.
By combining diegetic and non-diegetic sound, converging and splicing stories in different languages, the audience is transported to different fragments of Eu Su Lynn’s past and present. The piece follows a lost soul wandering the edges of reclaimed land. She is a girl suspended in time, unable to recall her past as her island grew and reshaped itself around her. Boundaries shift, stories fade, and histories blur—leaving her to dance through the fragments of memory and the noise of everything that came after.
Getting lost in the ability to simultaneously remember and forget is a feeling known to most, Lynn invites audiences to sit in this feeling and travel aimlessly with her throughout the liminal space.
Artist Note
Artist Note
A piece about recollecting family memories in it's accordance with historical happenings. I also used this work as a means of grappling with the inter-generational trauma passed through habits and stories, by unfurling the conditionings of my mind through deconstructing movements in places that are permanent yet contingent in nature. / Follow a lost soul wandering the edges of reclaimed land. She is a girl suspended in time, unable to recall her past as her island grew and reshaped itself around her. Boundaries shift, stories fade, and histories blur—leaving her to dance through the fragments of memory and the noise of everything that came after.
Eu Su Lynn’s Palimpsest is a performance piece, utilising visual and audio techniques to demonstrate the power in recollecting and expressing the personal impact of generational trauma. As these traits, habits and stories are passed down, akin to an inheritance, Lynn uses Palimpsest as a tool to unfurl the conditionings of the mind, deconstructing movements in places that are permanent, yet contingent.
By combining diegetic and non-diegetic sound, converging and splicing stories in different languages, the audience is transported to different fragments of Eu Su Lynn’s past and present. The piece follows a lost soul wandering the edges of reclaimed land. She is a girl suspended in time, unable to recall her past as her island grew and reshaped itself around her. Boundaries shift, stories fade, and histories blur—leaving her to dance through the fragments of memory and the noise of everything that came after.
Getting lost in the ability to simultaneously remember and forget is a feeling known to most, Lynn invites audiences to sit in this feeling and travel aimlessly with her throughout the liminal space.
A piece about recollecting family memories in it's accordance with historical happenings. I also used this work as a means of grappling with the inter-generational trauma passed through habits and stories, by unfurling the conditionings of my mind through deconstructing movements in places that are permanent yet contingent in nature. / Follow a lost soul wandering the edges of reclaimed land. She is a girl suspended in time, unable to recall her past as her island grew and reshaped itself around her. Boundaries shift, stories fade, and histories blur—leaving her to dance through the fragments of memory and the noise of everything that came after.
Tell us about yourself and your artistic journey.
I have a lot of mental blocks as an artist and I find it hard to call myself one because I always compare myself with others and think that I am not good enough. But covid came and I used the solitude and isolation to dedicate myself to the process of making art, and learned how to express myself through video editing, storytelling, and movement. My artistic journey is a reflective one, I do not have the powers to create by imagining the future or the unknown, but I can piece together what had happened to me in the past.
Tell us about yourself and your artistic journey.
I have a lot of mental blocks as an artist and I find it hard to call myself one because I always compare myself with others and think that I am not good enough. But covid came and I used the solitude and isolation to dedicate myself to the process of making art, and learned how to express myself through video editing, storytelling, and movement. My artistic journey is a reflective one, I do not have the powers to create by imagining the future or the unknown, but I can piece together what had happened to me in the past.
What’s the story behind the piece you’re sharing with us?
This piece is a mash up of how certain places in my neighbourhood make me feel anxious + stories of how my neighbourhood was when my parents were young. I feature sounds in my neighbourhood - e.g. I recorded sounds of frogs croaking, the cars on the highway, and people talking in the park. I also feature voice recordings of my parents and Grandma retelling me the stories I have heard when I was young.
What’s the story behind the piece you’re sharing with us?
This piece is a mash up of how certain places in my neighbourhood make me feel anxious + stories of how my neighbourhood was when my parents were young. I feature sounds in my neighbourhood - e.g. I recorded sounds of frogs croaking, the cars on the highway, and people talking in the park. I also feature voice recordings of my parents and Grandma retelling me the stories I have heard when I was young.
How does the QR code street exhition format shape your approach to the viewer’s experience?
My video dance is about my experiences in a public space from past to present. Although it occurs halfway across the world, I hope viewers can stop to think about their connections with mundane or overlooked places. When we give these places some thought and attention, their stories will come through. It will take some effort and inspiration to focus on public spaces though... just like how it will take some effort and inspiration to view works through scanning QR codes along a route that people use to commute. We are only part of your journey if you choose to view us:)
How does the QR code street exhition format shape your approach to the viewer’s experience?
My video dance is about my experiences in a public space from past to present. Although it occurs halfway across the world, I hope viewers can stop to think about their connections with mundane or overlooked places. When we give these places some thought and attention, their stories will come through. It will take some effort and inspiration to focus on public spaces though... just like how it will take some effort and inspiration to view works through scanning QR codes along a route that people use to commute. We are only part of your journey if you choose to view us:)
With our exhibition theme in mind, when did you last get wonderfully lost—in a city, a thought, or your studio?
2 weeks ago when I woke up at 4am on a work day to write down my dream with a cup of tea. I wrote it down and gave it my own ending.
With our exhibition theme in mind, when did you last get wonderfully lost—in a city, a thought, or your studio?
2 weeks ago when I woke up at 4am on a work day to write down my dream with a cup of tea. I wrote it down and gave it my own ending.
If your art could speak, what would it say to passersby?
It would whisper "boo!"
If your art could speak, what would it say to passersby?
It would whisper "boo!"
Artist Interview
Artist Interview