Lulu Suite: 17 Films for 17 Islands (2013)

Deanne Achong , Faith Moosang

6111 River Road

Area: Olympic Oval Precinct
Location: Art work no longer on display

This Artwork is no longer on display

Materials: Multi-screen installation, Corian

Program: Civic
Ownership: Civic
Sponsored By: Oval Precinct Public Art Program

Description of Work

A series of 17 films created from found archival film footage, texts, maps and photographs. Presented as a video wall installation on the ground floor of the Richmond Oval.

Artist Statement

Lulu Suite: 17 Films for 17 Islands is a video wall installation created by reworking 20th century archival films and footage that pertain to Richmond. Achong and Moosang exploit the ephemeral quality of analogue film and audio to draw parallels to the transitory and imprecise nature of memory and history. In the transfer from celluloid to data, film grain to pixel, reel-to-reel to mp3, the original films are dragged into the 21st century. The artists then alter the films, opening up the visual, auditory and narrative space for a new telling of the old stories. The title, Lulu Suite, is both a pun on the name of the actress, Lulu Sweet, after whom Lulu Island is ostensibly named, and a nod to the compositional approach of the artwork. https://lulusuite.ca/