Meridian by Anita Pan

Meridian derives from Pan's sound design and music composition for artist Gao Yuan's animated short film Lunar Dial (2016), a 15-minute hand-painted experimental work composed of happenings and scenes that are organized by rhythms and emotions rather than by causal / narrative orders.

Sound elements that appeared in the animation are set loose and weaved into a collage of dreamlike soundscapes in Pan's hands.

Meridian: Eternal Return was exhibited as an accompany for Gao Yuan's 2017 solo exhibition "Eternal Return" at Capsule Shanghai, reverberated in the gallery's bathroom, along with remixed moving images from Lunar Dial projected onto the bathroom window.

Meridian: Recurrent but not Repetitive is the edited live recording of the namesake sound performance Pan designed and carried out as a closing event of the "Eternal Return" exhibition, in collaboration with electronic musician thruoutin. During the performance, two bicycles were played upside down and improvised around as the key instruments, echoing with the image of a dreamscape wanderer from Lunar Dial.

Pan plays with sounds and words to draw lines between within and without, above and below.

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