As part of the Interaccess Media Arts Prize finalist programming, this work-in-progress combines performance, new media animation, and both fragile translucent and rough sediment sculptures.

 

[Writing actively in-progress]:

Building off of my work, to name language, and my latest research, hard place, the performance opens audiences into my own inquiry and practice of speaking Hakka. This was the first time I spoke Hakka sentences in public. This was an incredible moment, after only practicing the few sentences I was able to learn with my dad. 

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Experimenting with light and darkness, my body operates between infant and adult, learning these phrases between the embodiment of new materialists. Viewing light and darkness as meaningful material voids, I'm navigating how these relations with my body hold space for the hardship in geopolitical guestship of my Hakka culture, and also the cultural in-betweenness of feeling both inside and outside of cultural knowledge. This focus on projection mapping creates room for the light-based material to represent the interconnectedness, collective intelligence in language, and invisible infrastructures entangled within inter-heritage studies. These conceptual and technical skills will then prepare me for non-traditional theatre spaces.

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As a symbolic understanding of “in-betweenness,” tables personally represent a surface-level space of familial performance and co-existence, and in Hakka, they hold unity, stability, warmth of “home,” and a sense of return. When experimenting with the construction of this design element, I will reference and research
Hakka scholars focusing on furniture pieces. To cultivate compassionate visibility for Hakka culture, I am fusing performance with these materials to navigate the hard place within the body, imprinting between what is physically hard, and the difficult, inter-layered, unravelling of inter-heritage.
 

Upcoming: Research and Presentation Residency at Left of Main in Vancouver, BC​

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