Chinese is not a Language!(Bring in the Wine)
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Chinese is not a language! (Bring in the wine) is an experiment using the form of video, performance and writing. Through the materiality of the voice, I work to examine the role of the English language in the neo-colonial distribution of knowledge today. My specific interest in the gap between English and Mandarin results from a lived experience as a diaspora. Here, the voice becomes a metonymy for the body, so as to raise questions surrounding identities and the perceived notion of “autonomy” within language: under the globalized regime of signs, a contemporary subjectivity is produced by “translation".
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Chinese is not a Language! (Bring in the wine) was first performed in Paris, as part of Filter Bubble, Prospectif Cinema, Centre Pompidou, 2015. Filter Bubble is part of 89+, curated by Simon Castets and Hans Ulrich Obrist.
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Read more about Filter Bubble here.
Recording image of Chinese is not a Language! (Bring in the Wine), Paris Version, 2015.
Watch the full video here.