Yu Su: Semester’s-End Conversation

Territory Acknowledgement

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December 16, 2017
4:00 PM–5:30 PM

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Join 221A Fellow Yu Su at Pollyanna Library for an end-of-semester conversation and listening session. Yu Su will discuss her Fall 2017 project Pollyanna Sound Archive Prototype 01 and introduce the suite of commissioned sound works produced from material gathered in the semester’s two collaborative fieldwork sessions.

As part of the installation Collective Listening-research / Communal Cataloguing, Yu Su’s sound works will be projected into Pollyanna Library between December 9 – 16.

Pollyanna Sound Archive Prototype 01 is part of Notes on Permanent Education (N.O.P.E. 2017), a collective research program convened by 221A Librarian Vincent Tao. N.O.P.E. 2017 inaugurates the organization’s new fellowship model and its primary support, Pollyanna Library.

Vincent Tao
Yu Su

221A acknowledges that the area called Vancouver is within the unceded Indigenous territories belonging to the Musqueam, Skxwú7mesh-ulh Úxwumixw (Squamish) and Tsleil-Watututh peoples. 221A recognizes that the colony of British Columbia was created through organized dispossession and colonial violence. 221A seeks to shift its organizational practices to work together with Indigenous people to end ongoing violence, disposession and displacement.

Kaifeng-born Yu Su comes from a classical piano background and works as a sound artist, musician and composer in Vancouver. Through the manipulation of dub appliqué, Yu Su offers an extensive study on acoustic electronica, cultural translation and an ongoing response to the history of ambient music.
Vincent Tao’s projects at 221A include Notes on Political Ecologies, N.O.P.E. 2016; Rereading Room: the Vancouver Women’s Bookstore, 2016; Parallax Study: The New Romantics, 2017; and Deep Blue Open Archive, 2017. Tao took part in documenta 14’s aneducation program at Under the Mango Tree—Sites of Learning, travelling to Kassel to present and workshop 221A’s educational programming. His independent research and organizing work concerns urban displacement and the right to the city. Prior to moving to Vancouver, Tao studied at McGill University in Montreal, where he was the outreach coordinator for a worker-run community kitchen.

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Yu Su: Semester’s-End Conversation

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