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Hu Yun b. 1986
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Opposite to the flat where I stayed during one of my artist residency in 2018, there is a bar with live band music, it opens from 6pm to 4am every night throughout the whole year. I was brainwashed by the loud music and started to record the sound from my window. Between English pop songs, the Singers can also sing Chinese/Japanese/Korean pop songs, and the Happy birthday song is sang twice almost every night.
The metal structure of the installation creates a semi-closed space, outside is the neon sign (emotional labor), inside hanging two light boxes, a day and night shots of the bar which I took from my room window, and the sound is the edited version from a full recording of the 8 hours (one night) live band performance from the bar.
From evening to midnight, the music from the bar has been covered by all different kind of sound from the surrounding neighborhood. When it pasts midnight, the singer’s voice seems getting louder and louder, until becoming a solo of the entire street, greeting every morning.
All those songs sang by the bar singer, but they are the song from our mind.
You and I, we are all part of it.