With Choir, Eugene Lim resurrects ghostly and unidentified voices (VOX) that linger in Sung Tieu’s Infra-Specter exhibition: from the voices gathered on U.S. Army PSYOP tapes in the war in Vietnam that shaped Sung’s thinking, to rants about fossil fuel extraction that echo Tieu’s new body of work made for the exhibition at Amant (spring and summer 2023). As Lim’s polyvocal chorus grows, so do the threads of ambiguity, reference, and potential disinformation multiply.

Choir is a short, fictional text written to accompany the exhibition.

Choir is the first title in the Long Take series, which takes an author’s encounter of a single work, exhibition, event, or reference material, as an occasion for new writing. Each issue treats this experience as the space of possibility for new conversations—across practices, geographies, and histories—to emerge. -Publisher