KATYA CHENG HSIAO CHING 

A Soundtrack for an Imaginary Revolution

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Audiovisual installation, Multi-media, Mixed media

A collaboration between Katya Cheng Hsiao Ching and Georgi Tomov Georgiev, 2020.

Installation view at Espace Port A, as part of the «Sofia Art Week – Swan Song» group show –

Sofia, 2020. Video courtesy of the authors.

Duration: 155 mins.

Poster (dimensions 4m x 1m), media player, speakers, warning tape.

 

The purpose of the work is to collect politically critical, protest and revolutionary songs from various cultures and eras. The songs create a narrative in an audiovisual installation. Each song is contextualised with information on the artist, time, place, symbolic meaning, etc.

and lyrics where available. The ongoing project currently consists of 36 songs from 30 countries and autonomous regions and includes found footage of protests in Egypt (2011), Tunisia (2011), Ukraine (2013), Taiwan (2014), Hong Kong (2014, 2019, 2020), Chile (2019), Belarus (2020).

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With the help of:

Daria Kozlova

Diego Sologuren

Julio Lugon

Larisa Shilderova

Louise Hisayasu

Luna De Rosa

Mei Liu

Nathasorn Oo Chantarasak

Sangwon Nam

Zainab Alwash