Emil Goh

By Andrew Frost

Producing photography and video work since the 1990s, Emil Goh's main subject was the human response to the urban and city environment. Video such as Mall and 1 Minute at 109 [both 2002] investigated patterns of movement and coincidence. In Mall, Goh took the colour red as a cue to follow different people through a crowded city shopping mall, searching out red t-shirts, bags and hats, only switching direction once a new cue was found. In 1 Minute at 109 Goh ascended and then descended the escalators of a trendy department store in Tokyo, the journey compressed to a hectic 60 seconds.

Go Go Emil Goh

DCUARTIELLES –  9 September 2009

I have got to know a lot of people during the last years, someone I will never forget is Emil Goh. When I arrived to my 3 months long residency at the Samsung Art and Design Institute in Seoul back in 2007, I happened to get to know a Malaysian designer living in a voluntary exile at the city that never sleeps. Since 2004, when he arrived to Korea for a residency at SSamzie Space, he felt in love with the big city and stayed there.

Remembering Emil Goh

ART LIFE Feb 04, 2011 

In 2009 our friend Emil Goh died suddenly of a heart attack aged just 43. He was widely admired and respected in the Australian art scene as an outstanding artist, curator, writer and designer, but mostly as an enormously good-natured and kind-hearted friend. An enthusiastic supporter of fellow artists and writers Emil was an early contributor to The Art Life, filing numerous reports from various locations from Venice and London to Melbourne and Sydney.

Things I learned about life from Emil Goh (1966-2009)

SEPTEMBER 14, 2009
https://www.annamatic.com/blog/

Last Tuesday, the 8th, I was sitting upstairs in MMMG cafe, hunched over at my laptop working through some revisions when my e-mail sounded a new incoming message. The little red email icon bounced in the dock, but I ignored it as I concentrated on the project at hand.

Emil Goh 1966 to 2009 is too frigging short

By Vanessa Bates (L'eggs Up And Laughing)
10 September 2009

On Monday, my friend Emil Goh died.

I found this out on Twitter, while I was scrolling down through the arts snippets and parental tips and clues for better compost. 140 characters is not very much but the words Vale Emil Goh pretty much caught my eye and stuck in my gut and quite quickly I found the links.

In memory of Emil Goh

by Poketo
10 September 2009

Today, I woke up to the shocking and very sad news of our friend and Poketo contributor, Emil Goh passed away on 7 September 2009. This sudden news sent shivers through me.

We first knew of Emil through his flickr, Superlocal. We were so taken by his beautiful photography. He captured the everyday world so beautifully. No frills, no effects, his pictures truly captured the colors, feeling, people, and the unique way he experienced a place. He showed us a Seoul that we had never experienced and wanted to visit.

Remembering Emil Goh

by Nandemo
9 September 2009

I last met my friend Emil in Tokyo on 15th February 2008, when he was making a visa run from Seoul were he lived. I'd arranged to meet him outside the Starbucks at Scramble Crossing in front of Shibuya station. I remember spotting him in the crowd giving me a wave and a smile as he crossed the road. He was wearing jeans and a black V-necked sweater over a white collared shirt. His hair was longer than it had been when we knew each in Sydney. But that had been several years before. It was great to see him and we gave each other a big hug.