Digital archive
Previously-unseen video footage from song dynasty ○○ became the first accession to an online holistic archive of family portraits, that settle and live through virtual, imagined and public spaces. Further portraits – past and future – will be added over time to this shifting archive, drawing non-linear threads across a digital space which is both fully public and resolutely private.
The archive was also complemented for the month of August by posters, sited in Edinburgh at a South Clerk Street location which holds a particular resonance for the Song family.

songdynasty.life: song dynasty ○○ commissioned by Edinburgh Art Festival, 2020; ◉yap◉ commissioned by Hunterian Art Gallery, 2021. GIF made in collaboration with Tim Dalzell; songdynasty.life website designed by