Every day feels like a walk with this weight pressing down. It is a new beginning in a strange land, a culture unfamiliar yet somehow comforting. Despite the distance, I hold on to the threads that connect me to my loved ones back home. They are a lifeline, a constant reminder of the fight that continues, even from afar. This is the story of an exile, an artist forever bound to their cause. It is a tale of resilience, of carrying the burden of truth while searching for a new place to belong to.
Visitors are invited to walk barefoot along a pathway composed of some 3,000 broken stones of uneven size, bound together by the color red. Each stone symbolizes an individual who tragically lost their life during the 2021-23 protests in Myanmar. As visitors move along the path, a motion sensor captures their footsteps, triggering a dataset containing the names of those killed during the protests.
Photo: Anna Soz
Photo: li li k.s.a
These are projected from transducers placed underneath the pathway. At times, visitors may feel the vibrations emanating from these devices. Sometimes the names are whispered, sometimes read aloud, the experience enhanced with various sound colors.
Bio
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Photo: Stephane Ferrer Yuliantili li k.s.a
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li li k.s.a, born in 1990 in Bhamaw, Kachin, Myanmar (Burma), is a multifaceted composer, improviser, sound artist and violinist. After graduating in theology in Myanmar, he briefly studied at Dr. Hoch’s conservatory in Frankfurt before pursuing composition studies with Frank Gerhardt at the music academy in Kassel. In 2022, he relocated to Paris on a scholarship from the Atelier des Artistes en Exil. He was invited to perform at the DAAD-Gallery in Berlin in 2023.
Credits
aa-e (l’atelier des artistes en exil), PAUSE (PROGRAMME D’AIDE À L’ACCUEIL EN URGENCE DES SCIENTIFIQUES EN EXIL), HEAR (Haute école des arts du Rhin Mulhouse — Strasbourg)
The presentation of the work is funded by State of the ART(ist), a collaboration between the Austrian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Ars Electronica.
