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Lemon Guo

Lemon Guo (she/her) is an interdisciplinary artist, composer, and vocalist from China. Drawn to the visceral and evocative nature of the voice, she creates voice-based performances and installations that connect people to current environmental and cultural realities. She has performed and exhibited her solo and collaborative works internationally, in places such as Rubin Museum of Art, Sundance Film Festival, IDFA, BBC Radio 3, International Computer Music Conference, ACM Siggraph, and Bi-City Biennale of Urbanism/Architecture. Lemon has held residencies at the Headlands Center for the Arts and Making Tracks. Lemon created music for director Yi Tang’s short film All the Crows in the World, which won Palme d’Or at Festival de Cannes 2021. Lemon is also half of an experimental music duo Southeast of Rain with composer/pipa-player Sophia Shen and had recently released their debut album 42 Days to critical acclaim.

Work

Loom

VR / 360 Video

LOOM is a VR opera that ruminates on the emotional and political charge of polyphony and ethnic identities. The project grew out of the artists’ time recording soundscapes, filming, and studying with elder song masters in the villages of the Kam people, an ethnic minority group in the southwest of China with a rich orally transmitted polyphonic singing tradition that has undergone drastic displacement and reconstruction in recent decades.

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Diagnosia

VR / 360 Video

In China, internet gaming is described as “electronic heroin” and many parents of suspected internet addicts send them to re-education camps. One of them was the director of this VR experience that places you at the center of his haunting experiences.

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