
Martin Lau’s and Edin Suljic’s ‘Correspondence’ is through music and poetry, stretching across several layers of fabric of Britishness, as well as their own backgrounds. Both being British of immigration background (second generation British in Martin’s case and naturalized British in Edin’s), they explore legacies of those who came before and bring their own experiences into their ‘conversations’.

On Belonging is a project exploring how a sense of belonging to a place, to a tribe to a nation, to a country is formed; why do we fear ‘otherness’ and how we become bound to each other. From challenging times in the past to the challenges of the present, would it (still) be possible to create a modern myth on Belonging in Britain today. What is uniting us and what is dividing us?

The term and the concept of ‘social distancing’ might have became prominent with the fear of COVID19, but the social separation in the real terms, is as evident for as long as the presence of the ‘otherness’. Despite close proximity and shared physical space, different groups of the same society find it hard to communicate, to ‘correspond’ across their divides.

Martin’s music is a direct and improvised response to Edin’s poetry which in turn runs the gamut of human feelings, drawing on experiences of various generations of immigrants to the UK, taking cues from William Blake’s rage against Dark Satanic Mills and visions of Green And Pleasant Land, to his own wanderings in a new land and finding solace in the graveyards and resting places of those who came before.

Their ‘Correspondence’ on this subject is continuous and evolving.

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