OLIVIA CHUNG

Olivia Chung is an emerging artist based on unceded Wurundjeri Country. Working across sound, video and poetry, she explores the liminal attitudes of trauma that pervade our increasingly capitalist society. She hopes to bring attention to the insidious ways trauma impacts us on a personal and societal level, offering shared space to contemplate alternate modalities of living geared towards collective liberation and embodied healing.

PROJECT: LINK

Behind Olivia's work is an investigation into our prevailing social paradigm’s invocation and alarming abnegation of trauma. Through her research into 墓志 铭 muzhiming (Chinese epitaph), she draws parralels with the ways in which Western hegemonic institutions dismiss, reject and erase the stories of those who exist on the peripheries. Layering broken poetry excerpts and glitched, overstimulating visuals, she demonstrates some of the consequences these capitalist, colonial frameworks, which serve to distance ourselves from the present and recede collective consciousness. Her debut into music production unveils an ethereal sonic landscape which offers listeners an opportunity to contemplate and reconnect inwards, to consider the ways their own narratives have been shaped, and to hold space for resistance and dreaming against these increasingly oppressive structures.

Threads Trauma

Understanding how it is shaped and how it manifests on an individual and societal level

Society

Contemplating how different hegemonies shape the institutions that inform our beliefs, attitudes and values

Healing

Dreaming of embodied, intersectional, holistic ways of healing, on individual and collective levels

- Olivia Chung