波丽安娜声音档案库 〇一

Description

波丽安娜声音档案库 〇一 is a speculative sound archive compiled by artist Yu Su as part of her Notes on Permanent Education (N.O.P.E.) fellowship with 221A. Yu Su’s research at Pollyanna 圖書館 Library sought to invert the standard procedures of sound archiving—procedures analogous to a kind of capture, submitting vibrations to the jurisdiction of the archive—to remake its infrastructure in the liquid form of sound.

Yu Su’s research commenced with two collaborative fieldwork sessions; the first in Vancouver’s Stanley Park, the second in Richmond’s Aberdeen Centre. The PSAP 01 Fieldwork Research Team was assembled to learn and test methods of collective sonic inquiry. Researchers were instructed to be attentive to inner emotional registers and outer affective fields, to remain open to serendipitous encounters, and to transgress the ‘objective’ divide between recorder and recorded—that is, to consider the recording of sound as a fruit of play between listener and environment.

Working with the material gathered by her research collaborators, Yu Su produced a suite of unique sound works that collage and synthesize the distinct sonic densities of Stanley Park and Aberdeen Centre. 波丽安娜声音档案库 〇一 collects Yu Su’s suite along with 75 sound works commissioned from Julian Hou, Michelle Mackenzie, and Jonathan Scherk. The collection also includes ephemera acquired by the PSAP 01 Fieldwork Research Team and This Chime Has a Door (2018), a single-channel resin sculpture commissioned for Pollyanna 圖書館 Library’s front entrance.