SUKI CHAN : A HUNDRED SEAS RISING

18 May-2 Sep 2012

Overview

To mark Dickens 2012, the 200th anniversary of the birth, in Portsmouth, of Charles Dickens, aspex is pleased to announce the commission of a new work by artist Suki Chan. Inspired by his novel 'A Tale of Two Cities' the artist will create a new sound installation, 'A Hundred Seas Rising'. This work explores how literature might be implicated in the imagination and trajectories of revolutions, referencing the Hundred Flowers Movement in China. The movement invited a variety of views and solutions to national policy issues, the name of which originated from a poem: “Let a hundred flowers bloom; let a hundred schools of thought contend.”