exhibition

susan pui san lok: Faster, Higher

30.May.08 - 31.Aug.08
Tue - Sun 11-8 pm
£ Free

BFI Southbank Gallery
BFI Southbank
Belvedere Road
London SE1 8XT
+44 (0)20 7928 3535
gallery@bfi.org.uk
www.bfi.org.uk/gallery
Tube Waterloo, Embankment, Charing Cross, Lambeth / Southwark

Faster, Higher is staged to coincide with the Beijing Olympics and act as a critical and imaginative precursor to London 2012. Exploring the visual rhetoric of idealism, unity and aspiration, with which the Olympics as event, spectacle and movement is performed and delivered, this new commission will revolve around film and television material from the BFI National Archive as well as new footage shot on location in London. Invoking China's parallel sports culture and historical relations between China and the West, Faster, Higher seeks to contrast spectacular, fleeting moments of physical excellence with the routine endurance of young athletes in training, and the anonymous labour reinforcing the peripheral markings denoting the slow, hidden choreography of London's Olympic stage-in-the-making.

Commissioned by BFI and Film and Video Umbrella. Supported by Arts Council England.