Grass Drama — Julian Yi-Zhong Hou
“Somewhere, underneath / It’s the same thing.” The experience of listening to and thinking about Julian Yi-Zhong Hou’s LP , for me, has been characterized by a cyclical return to this poetic fragment, whisper-sung by Hou on the album’s second piece, “Passionate Daylight.” The vinyl record is a musical aspect of a densely interwoven constellation of works, many of which were included in an exhibition of the same name at Vancouver’s Contemporary Art Gallery in the second half of 2020.
