Video installation of performance documentation (9:51 minutes) Chinese ink on rice paper scriptures, personal paraphernalia and performance remnants
hearth, Art Outreach December 2023
Diaspora as a phenomenon eludes a complete comprehension and its complexity only reveals itself through personal embodied feelings of displacement and fragmentation. Struggling to convey the entirety of it, 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, the performance redeems reassurance for a sense of belonging and reconciliation of conflicted identity and history.
