Experimental Chinese artist Pan Daijing releases 5-part performance-exhibition piece on vinyl
“Documenting has always been an important part of my work & also something I want to challenge”
Experimental Chinese artist Pan Daijing has revealed a vinyl version that condenses her performance-exhibition piece that premiered in the Tanks at the Tate Modern in the fall of 2019.
The album, called Tissues, is a five-part immersion in sound, movement, performance, space, and most of all, emotion in its purest form. Via the album, Pan Daijing engages with the conventions of opera and tragedy to present a scorching portrayal of the embattled human psyche in space and time.
Being in the form of an hour-long studio-recorded audio excerpt, the vinyl and digital release serve as a record and an indispensable archival document of the artist’s practice.
The Berlin-based Chinese artist once said in an interview with Flash Art, “documenting has always been an important part of my work and also something I want to challenge.”
Pan Daijing was also recently featured in Hong Kong’s Tai Kwun’s trust & confusion’s exhibition via a special listening session. In the show, the artist and composer extended her practice where her work was installed at the spiral staircase leading up to the exhibition lures visitors on a sonic journey based on the act of voicing.
Tissues Pan Daijing is out now and you can order it here
