Published April 8, 2025
Professor Chen's work in FLEFF 2025 New Media Exhibition
Professor Millie Chen's collaborative work SRS (Silk Road Songbook), is being presented.
The Finger Lakes Environmental Film Festival ("FLEFF") invites you to screen the FLEFF 2025 new media exhibition, Arts in Movement. View the three works from Arts in Movement on the FLEFF website (including SRS), along with a statement from curators Dale Hudson and Claudia Costa Pederson. Then, join on April 11 at 12:00 PM EST for an online panel discussion with artists, scholars, and curators.
"SRS (Silk Road Songbook)" (Millie Chen and Arzu Ozkal, Turkey/Uzbekistan/China/Iran/Kyrgyzstan, 2024)
Excerpt from Curator's Statement
"Millie Chen and Arzu Ozkal’s audio-video installation SRS (Silk Road Songbook) traces the movement of songs along the Silk Routes from Xi’an to Istanbul. The multiscreen installation weaves land and songs, as musical genres and languages maintain cultural identities across the ancient trading routes into the present. As mapped between Ozkal’s and Chen’s ancestral homes, respectively between Turkey and China, the work neither romanticizes nor demonizes these places, but instead moves to include voices absent in Western accounts of the Silk Routes by sounding five acoustic ecologies from the Eurasian migration route, connecting women’s voices and shared ambient sounds of the land."