Compositional poem using exploratory vocal looping, field recordings and poetry.

The Warning

Surviving Blank is a piece of work about the disturbing mood during the pandemic of coronavirus in 2020. This work is a depiction of the struggle between reality and mental state that might be more problematic and widely attacked rather than the virus itself.

During the pandemic, there were numerous modifications in most of the activities. Lots of plans had been delayed, suspended or even cancelled. Nevertheless, many of us strived to live as normal as we could. We tried to survive, even though it was never easy.

However, there were still many restraints that we could not control. There were yet lots of matters that were limited and could not be done.

Thus, we were in a state of surviving blank. This dispute would continue until we finally conquered the battle.

Wai Kit Lam
Oxford, United Kingdom
10.2020



Surviving Blank

A poem for the future. Of what may be left. Of what will outlive us.

When This All Ends

Compositional Poem.

A poem for the future. Of what may be left. Of what will outlive us.

Compositional poem.

A poem for the future. Of what may be left. Of what will outlive us.

Compositional Poem. 

A song-poem inspired by Olafur Arnalds new album, 'We Contain Multitudes'.

We Contain Multitudes (That Cannot Be Contained)

An intimate collection of poems and songs journeying through politic, place and early womanhood.

Coming Of Age 

A collection of short poems, haiku's and meditations. A notation of experience through poetry. Illustrated with watercolour drawings.

The video is a recitation with music of the title poem, 'Bloom (or live trying)'.



Bloom (Or Live Trying)

Made using field recordings from North Carolina. A dialogue between landscape, sound, voice and poetry.

A collaboration with Mark Boyd.

Authymn - Collaborative Poem

A series of Oil Pantings created through the 2020/21 Pandemic. I was exploring notions of movement through stillness. This year my practice adapted to the needs of my body as I spent much of the year not being able to move. My body was craving other ways to explore depth of movement, and found this through these abstractions and movements of colour.

'Out Of The Wreckage' - Oil On Canvas, 12" x 15"

'Thirst' - Oil On Canvas, 12" x 15"

'Invocation' - Oil On Canvas, 8" x 12"

'Grief Has No Colour' - Oil On Canvas Board, 10" x 8"

Out of The Wreckage

Metamorphosis

DROUGHT is a 10 year durational, compositional poem. A navigation. A meeting point. Between the prophetic and the real. To recalibrate the fractures. To repair the wound. It is an invocation. A song-story. A broken lullaby. A siren - a recognition of the stories that live within us, and the attempt, the process, the eternal ceremony of letting go.

 It explores the duality of the mirror-myth, interweaving ancient mythology with that written after the event. A possession. It explores internal landscapes and external landscapes. The interplay between the mind-state and the physical. The psychic trauma. The drowning and the release, the burning and the salve. The disentangling of time, and self, and story.

 There are multiple entry points - It started with sound, only the sounds and the words. This can be heard.  Over time there was a need for this to integrate with my body. To engage the body with the journey, with the process. With the release. To find a space big enough to contain this. A need. To bury it. This can be seen. It can also be read. In a quiet place. With not even a whisper. 


A journey to be drenched with freedom


(may we be flooded with it).


Media: Film + Composition
Duration: 80mins
Written, Composed, Performed, Editing + Mastering: Kit Radford
Assistant Filming: Matthieu Bellon


Screenings:

May 22nd - May 27th 20201. San Francisco Art Institute, 'Here, and yet-' 
June 2021, Cygent Theatre, Plymouth

DROUGHT

Digital Photographs (Variable Sizes)

Taken at the California Academy of Sciences.

Standing In The Shadows Of Butterflies


Multi-Media installation exploring the physical and audible texture of words using poetry as a material that can be moved through media.


Includes video, performance, visual art.


commissioned by Square Chapel Centre For The Arts, 2018 - re-mounted at the San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco 2019

These Are All The Ways My Heart Can Speak

'All The Things They Never Told You' is an immersive multi-media installation exploring art space as place of sanctuary and transformation. The viewer is invited into a 12 minute re-programming unit, where they receive positive messaging in a hypnotic atmosphere to disentangle negative language that has been historically weaponised against women.

​Initially mounted in the pulpit of a church, this iteration explored the hidden spaces of transformation.
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First mounted in 2018 in collaboration with Hebden Bridge Arts Festival at Hope Baptist Church, Hebden Bridge. Later mounted at the San Francisco Art Institute, 2019.

Published in the Social Art Award Book, 2019

All The Things They Never Told You

A rare glimpse into the studio of Irish artist Dearbhla Quinn. Welcome to her wonderful and wacky world.

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