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Samson Young

  • Work
  • Installation View
  • Bibliography
  • Music
  • Drawing
  • Text
  • CV
  • Agenda
  • Publication
  • Contact

Artist Monographs

To feel what holds the frame: Samson Young

Genk: FLACC / Jester, 2023. With text by Samson Young and Royal Museum for Central Africa, Tervuren. Book design by Kevin Reynaert.

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Samson Young: New Drawings

Hanover: Dartmouth College, 2022. With text by Jessica Hong. Book design by Glenn Suokko.

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Close Reading

Cologne: Galerie Gisela Capitain, 2021. With texts by Kayo Tokuda and Samson Young. Book design by MAJO.

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Samson Young: Reasonable Music

Lucas Morin, Dawn Ross, eds. Dubai: Art Jameel. 2021. With text by Orianna Cacchione. Book design by Kemistry (Hani Charaf).

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Samson Young: Silver Moon or Golden Star, Which Will You Buy of Me?

Orianna Cacchione, ed. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2019. With texts by Orianna Cacchione, G. Douglas Barrett, Seth Kim Cohen. Book design by MAJO.

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Samson Young: Real Music

Tessa Giblin, Charlotte Day, eds. Edinburgh: Talbot Rice Gallery; Melbourne: MUMA; and London: Koenig Books, 2019. With texts by Stefan Bilbao, Alexandra Chang, Charlotte Day, Tessa Giblin, Alexander Rehding, Joel Stern, Samson Young. Book design by Stuart Geddes and Žiga Testen.

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Samson Young: It’s a heaven over there

Godfre Leung, ed. Vancouver: Centre A, 2019. With texts by Hendrik Folkerts, Godfre Leung, Qinyi Lim, Tyler Russell. Book design by MAJO.

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Songs for Disaster Relief: A Mixtape

Ying Kwok, Sonia So, eds. Hong Kong: M+, 2017. With texts by Doryun Chong, Seth Kim-Cohen, Ying Kwok, Anthony Leung Po-shan, Samson Young. Book design by HATO.

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For Whom the Bell Tolls: Samson Young's Art Journey

Andras Szanto, BMW Group Munich, eds. Berlin: Hatje Cantz, 2016. With texts by Andras Szanto, Samson Young.

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Samson Young:
A dark theme keeps me here, I'll make a broken music

Jasmine Merz, Anna Brohm, Gregor Jansen, Kunsthalle Dusseldorf, eds. Düsseldorf: Kunsthalle Düsseldorf, 2016. With texts by Jasmina Merz, Christoph Cox, Holger Schulze. Book design by Hugo Hoppmann.

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AudioVisual Materials

Cassette Album by Salomé Voegelin (tape score compilation)

Cassette Album is a compilation of sonic responses to tape scores by the artist and writer Salomé Voegelin. It features work by eight artists – Pisitakun, super inter, Heather Frasch, Magda Drozd, Mariam Rezaei, Samson Young, Hannah Silva and Cody Yantis – who each have composed works in response to individual tape scores by Salomé.

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STREYA (CD)

Olivia De Prato. New York: New Focus Recording: 2018. With composition by Samson Young and others.

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Such Sweet Thunder (Cassette)

Samson Young. Hong Kong: M+, 2017.

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What is the sound of one flag burning (Vinyl)

G Douglas Barrett and Samson Young. 2017. [Limited edition of 50]

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Sound Art China: Revolutions Per Minute (2CD)

Various, Dajuin Yao ed. Hangzhou: Post Concrete, 2013. With composition by Samson Young and others.

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Electric Requiem: God Save the Queen (DVD)

Samson Young. Hong Kong: Flower Music, 2009.

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OTHER Publications

Hold The Sound

— Notes On Auditories (2024)

Justine Stella Knuchel & Jan Steinbach, eds. Zurich: Inexistent books, 2024. With contributions by: Agus Nur Amal PMTOH, Aio Frei, Alisa Oleva, Andrew Norman Wilson, Ben Rivers, Bertrand Bacqué, Camille Llobet, Daniel Deshays, Daphne Xanthopoulou, David Horvitz, Eleni Ikoniadou, Haroon Mirza, Hildegard Westerkamp, Jan Steinbach, Jean-Paul Felley, Justine Stella Knuchel, Kevin B. Lee, Lauren Tortil, Marie Losier, Marina Rosenfeld, Nina Dragičević, Philippe Ciompi, Pierre Leguillon, Samson Young, Sarah Brahim, Simone Merli, Stefano Knuchel, Stephan Crasneanscki, and Tomoko Sauvage.

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Contemporary Performance (2022)

Chieh-Ting Hsieh & Fang-Wei Chang, eds. Taipei: Taipei Fine Arts Museum. 2022. Contributions by Samson Young and others.

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Radical Friends (2022)

Ruth Catlow & Penny Rafferty, eds. London: Torque Editions. 2022. With contributions by: Ramon Amaro, Calum Bowden, Jaya Klara Brekke, Mitchell F. Chan, Cade Diehm, eeefff, Carina Erdmann, Primavera De Filippi, Charlotte Frost, Max Hampshire, Lucile Olympe Haute, Sara Heitlinger, Lara Houston, Cadence Kinsey, Nick Koppenhagen, Kei Kreutler, Laura Lotti, Jonas Lund, Massimiliano Mollona, MetaObjects, Rhea Myers, Omsk Social Club, Bhavisha Panchia, Legacy Russell, Tina Rivers Ryan, Nathan Schneider, Sam Skinner, Sam Spike, Hito Steyerl, Alex S. Taylor, Cassie Thornton, Suzanne Treister, Stacco Troncoso, Ann Marie Utratel, Samson Young

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Sound arts now (2021)

Cathy Lane, Angus Carlyle, Devon: Uniform Books. 2021. Interviews with: Adam Basanta, AM Kanngieser, Budhaditya Chattopadhyay, Caroline Devine, Elsa M'bala, Evan Ifekoya, Hanna Tuulikk, Hong-Kai Wang, Jau-Lan Guo, Jennifer Walshe, Khaled Kaddal, Lawrence Abu Hamdan, Lina Lapelyte, Maria Chavez, Mark Peter Wright, Mikel R. Nieto, Mikhail Karikis, Samson Young, Yang Yeung and Yashas Shetty.

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Fractured Scenes (2021)

Damien Charrieras & Francois Mouillot, eds. Singapore: Palgrave Macmillan. 2021. Interview with Samson Young.

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Eavesdropping: A Reader (2020)

James Parker, Joel Stern, eds. Melbourne: City Gallery Wellington in association with Liquid Architecture and Melbourne Law School. 2020. With texts by Samson Young and others.

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The Bloomsbury Handbook of Sound Art (2020)

Sanne Krogh Groth, Holger Schulze, eds. London & New York: Bloomsbury Publishing Inc., 2020. With texts by Samson Young and others.

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Reclaiming Artistic Research (2019)

Lucy Cotter, Berlin: Hatje Cantz. 2019. Interviews with: Lawrence Abu Hamdan, Katayon Arian, Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev, Sher Doruff, Em’kal Eyongakpa, Ryan Gander, Mario García Torres, Liam Gillick, Natasha Ginwala, Sky Hopinka, Manuela Infante, Euridice Zaituna Kala, Grada Kilomba, Sarat Maharaj, Emma Moore, Rabih Mroué, Christian Nyampeta, Yuri Pattison, Falke Pisano, Sarah Rifky, Samson Young, Katarina Zdjelar.

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Pillow Hands, Heavy Feet (2019)

Ysabelle Cheung, ed. Hong Kong. 2019. With texts by 23 contributors including John Batten, The Bauhinia Project, Mario Bobbio, David Boyce, Blessy Chan, Doreen Chan, Esther Chan, Cheng Ting Ting, Blythe Cheung, Karen Cheung, Ysabelle Cheung, Stanley Chung, Gloria F. Lam, Lam Tung Pang, Katherine Ka Yi Liu, Angela Ho / Ahoy, Mak Ying Tung 2, Emma-Lee Moss, Tiffany Tam, Eunice Tsang, Wong Kit Yi, Paul Yeung, Samson Young.

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It’s a heaven over there: interviews (2019)

Samson Young, ed. Hong Kong: Arts Development Council. 2019. With texts by Tang Siu Wah, Simon Shen, May Fung, Samson Young, and others.

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The Annotated Reader (2018)

Ryan Gander, Jonathan P. Watts, eds. 2018. With contributions by Samson Young and others.

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Notating Beauty That Moves (2018)

Exhibition Guide

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Songs for Disaster Relief (2017)

Exhibition Guide

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One of Two Stories, or Both (Field Bagatelles) (2017)

Project Booklet

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AAAFM 993 (2016)

Project Booklet

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