RoCH Fans & Legends is a series of new works by susan pui san lok, featuring single-channel and multi-screen moving image commissions for gallery and online, and a limited edition artist’s book.
Exhibition dates
QUAD: 19 September - 15 November 2015
CfCCA: opens June 2016
Drawing on fan uploads of over forty different media adaptations of The Condor Trilogy, a classic ‘new wuxia’ epic published in the late fifties by Hong Kong-based author Louis Cha (aka Jin Yong), RoCH explores some of the recurring tropes of wuxia – its fantasies, landscapes, and archetypes – as well as its numerous translations across popular culture, and recurring dreams of weightlessness.
RoCH is commissioned by Derby QUAD and the Centre for Chinese Contemporary Art (CfCCA), in partnership with Animate Projects and the University of Salford. RoCH launched at QUAD in September 2015, touring to CfCCA as part of their 30th anniversary programme. For the CfCCA exhibition, there is a richly illustrated e-publication, featuring commissioned texts by Chris Berry, Alice Ming-Wai Jim, Jean Hui Ng, Marquard Smith, Wenny Teo, Henry Tsang, Luke White, and Andy Willis.
Commissioned by QUAD and CFCCA (Centre for Chinese Contemporary Art) in partnership with Animate Projects and University of Salford. Supported using public funding from the National Lottery by Arts Council England.
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