"‘salmon cannon me into the abyss’ is a poetry EP made in collaboration with Felicity Yang, Hannah Wu, Jamie Marina Lau and Lei Lei Kung.

Dedicated to my dad, who died in 2017, it features four tracks that piece together moments, scenes and sensations of grief and loss.

I wrote my poems in fragments—on my Notes app, receipts, scraps of paper, work documents, text messages, emails to myself. I recorded my poems by speaking into a microphone through a stocking stretched over a hanger, or on my geriatric iPhone. Vocal processing changed my voice into new impressions and textures. Found sounds reference both the precious and banal, such as pearl extraction, orchestra tuning, cicadas, a clicking mouse and shimmering. I felt a sense of release in sending my recordings away to my friends, for them to return as something new. Catharsis crystallised into something else.

Eternal thanks to Amy Yu, Anita Solak, Chi Tran, Felicity Yang, Hannah Wu, Jamie Marina Lau, Lei Lei Kung, Lorilee Yang and Lu Lin for shaping ‘salmon cannon me into the abyss’.

This project is made possible by MAV and the Wheeler Centre Hot Desk Fellowship 2020."

Presented as part of MAV’s Ahead of the Curve program.

Supported by The Victorian Department of Families, Fairness and Housing.

thinking about icecream by Felicity Yang x Panda Wong

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