Category Archives: Consolidation

A THOUSAND WAYS (Part One): A Phone Call Participated in this phone call and couldn’t help crying hearing these questions: What’s the name of a person you love? What’s one thing that won’t ever return? Are you holding on? I guess because they’re all situations I can’t really control. REPETITION IN PERFORMANCE Repetition holds suchContinue reading “A THOUSAND WAYS (Part One): A Phone Call & REPETITION IN PERFORMANCE”

I have been thinking about the idea that complete interpersonal connection is impossible, which has been explored in my previous project, How Connected Can We Be. From my last project, Can You Direct Me, Please, I realized that I had not been able to accept that idea and I still had the desire of filling the gap.Continue reading “QUIT IT”

Michelle said she’s drawn to the sound, like tap dripping. She also asked if I wanted to add written element to the work. I think the repetition of the sound adds the effect of annoyance, frustration and anxiety. And it also shows the passage of the time as well. I don’t really want to addContinue reading “GROUP TUTORIAL”

Inspired by my recent “relationship”, I feel my mind is not in my body. It’s attached to the other. While the other cannot be reached, my body is lost. It becomes functionless. It reminds me of Lacan’s theory: But of course this is impossible, because that lack, or absence, the sense of “other”ness, is theContinue reading “CAN YOU DIRECT ME, PLEASE”

What both Marx and Mauss understood was that objects and persons have values which are interchangeable, and should possess a considerable degree of interpenetration. Daniel Miller Reminds me of my project OFF and CLOTHES where I use the connection between objects and humans.

Inspired by my recent “relationship”, my unfulfilled desire for answers/clarification/recognition from the other makes me restless/unsettled. I’m anxiously longing for getting positioned/fixed, inspired by Lacan’s theory I noted before: This sense of self, and its relation to others and to Other, sets you up to take up a position in the Symbolic order, in language.Continue reading “CAN YOU SEAT ME, PLEASE”