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This chapter combines a fragmented poetic-prose text with a series of collaged visual documents. As a response to the terms framing this volume, the visual and textual strands of this chapter revisit three attenuated moments and interweaving projects within my practice, ranging from text and performance, to moving image for gallery and online, to installation and sound works: 97 Proofs and Witness (1998), Golden (Vistas, Songs, Years, Lessons, Notes, Untitled (Ballroom/Pavilion/Shower) (2005–ongoing), and RoCH Fans and Legends (2013–ongoing).
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97 Proofs, 1998, ink on paper, frames, dimensions variable.
DIY Ballroom / Live, 2006, single-channel video for outdoor screen with live events, 13’ loop.
Faster, Higher, 2006, five-screen moving image installation, 20′.
Figures, 2015, site-specific vinyls, installation.
Golden Hour, 2006, audio, 57′ 24″.
lok, s. (2006). Translators’ Notes. Journal of Visual Culture, 6(1), 125–148.
Mobile Ballroom, 2006, participatory performance, duration variable.
Mobile Chorus, 2006, participatory performance, duration variable
Peach Blossom Isle, 2006, site-specific wallpaper.
RoCH Fans & Legends (Entries), 2013, series of 30 inkjet prints, various dimensions.
RoCH Fans & Legends (Variations), 2013, Photoshopped screenshots.
Songs I to VI, 2005–2017, audio, various durations.
Steyerl, H. (2009). In Defence of the Poor Image. e-flux Journal, no. 10, November.
Trailers, 2015, single-channel video for gallery and online, 4′.
Trilogies, 2015, three-screen moving image installation, 65′.
Untitled (Ballroom), 2006, installation with shimmer, dimensions variable.
Untitled (Ballroom), 2015, installation with shimmer, dimensions variable.
Untitled (Pavilion), 2017, installation with shimmer, dimensions variable.
Untitled (Shower), 2017, installation with shimmer, dimensions variable.
Vistas, 2005, video triptych, 5′.
Witness, 1998, installation with paper and sound, dimensions variable.
Years, 2006, alternating two-screen silent video, 50 minutes.
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susan pui san lok (2018). Testing, Contesting. In: Thorpe, A., Yeh, D. (eds) Contesting British Chinese Culture. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-71159-1_5
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