Performance, 20 minutes
Struggling to convey the entirety of personal embodied feelings of displacement and fragmentation as a diasporic individual, the artist sought to create an alienated language derived from contemporary vernacular of English, Mandarin, computational codes and emojis. In an absurd yet honest jest, this second iteration of the work is a private ritual in which the artist reads out loud a second letter, written in the script, for her great grandfather. She hopes to reconcile with family histories.
Activated as part of across the way by Salty Xi Jie Ng at starch. October 2023.
