(DK/CN)
currently based in the Hague
Raised between China and Denmark and languages
of Mandarin, English, and Danish,
language has always been a territory of linguistic
hierarchies to me and a medium of revealing cultural layers rather than just
communication.
My work serves as a continuous auto-ethnographic research. Research on power structures through and with language.
I am interested in how words are always semantically shifting
and never neutral when arriving at a place; a language. How language is an
ecosystem, when it is plastic, mutable, and shaping bodies both ways. How
language is a medium of revealing power. And where that leaves the speaking,
listening, reading, and writing body.
Currently, I am interested in the diasporic conditions of language and what power lies behind literacy and the unableness to speak. Through my work, I meditate on constructed languages and aim to create work exploring
alternative ways of languaging (looking upon meaning production as not fixed,
but open-ended and process-oriented).
Such explorations manifest in material transformations, as I explore ways of languaging through
micro-performances of materials and their organic processes. To look upon language as a speculative ecosystem and meditate on modes of communication in the absence of words, which turn to pre-linguistics, where sound, image, and gesture are prominent.
I allow research to be a share of ongoing thoughts and to be open-ended; a process in which I partly reject closure.
It is a process I perceive as an osmosis of knowledge, in which the aim is not to find one conditioned answer - only temporary unfixed ones.