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Charwei TSAI in collaboration with Tsering Tashi Gyalthang Hear Her Singing 2017 video, 16min 28sec Commissioned by Hayward Gallery, Southbank Centre, London UK

Charwei TsaI Hear her Singing

7 February – 15 March '20

Charwei Tsai’s video installation Hear Her Singing  2017 was made in collaboration with Tibetan filmmaker Tsering Tashi Gyalthang. Commissioned by the Hayward Gallery, the work takes the universality of song to create a platform for refugees and asylum seekers currently living or detained in the United Kingdom. Through a series of film installations, the artist presents multiple voices of struggle, resistance and hope. 

For this project Tsai worked closely with two charitable organisations, the Bedford Creative Arts Music in Detention, and Women for Refugee Women, as well as with vocal leader Phoene Cave. She drew on the foundations of care and solidarity between the women and used vocal workshops to invite the groups to sing to each other and send each other messages via audio recordings, creating a point of exchange for women who have experienced similar journeys. 

Following the workshops, the Women for Refugee Women drama group were invited to sing their chosen songs in front of the camera as a dedication to the struggle of women in Yarl’s Wood and beyond. These personal and powerful songs include religious, political and pop songs as well as original material. Performed and filmed in various locations around the Royal Festival Hall, Hear Her Singing creates a presence for the women’s voices throughout the gallery space, and invites visitors to stop, listen and engage with the songs and the sounds of women singing.

 

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Charwei TSAI in collaboration with Tsering Tashi Gyalthang

Hear Her Singing  2017
video, 16min 28sec
Commissioned by Hayward Gallery,
Southbank Centre, London UK


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