你也无声了。你也寂静了。我也无声了。我也寂静了。我被你撤销了。我少了一块我自己。你离开的同时也带走了一块我。在很隐秘的地方，我也看不见，找不到的地方。在无声的地方。在寂静的地方。

You went s-sou-soundless. You went s-sil-silent. I went s-sou-soundless too. I went si-silent too. I am un-undone by you. I am exposed in an interrupted p-p-pro-prospect, a hope that h-has nowhere to p-pl-place. I lost myself in not knowing, looking for an answer that up in the air. The answer went s-s-s-soundless. The answer went s-ssss-silent.

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你的名字，有没有写在我的讣告栏上？

你的故事，有没有印在我的报纸占据一行字？

Is your name, written on my obituaries?

Is your affliction, occupied a line on my newspaper?   

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我将你卷入我的浪漫，在甜腻的糖浆宇宙里翻滚。

我的浪漫把你淹没。你在我的浪漫中淹没。

I s-s-suck you into my vortex of romance, s-sw-wirling and rolling in my tr-trea-treacly lines.

My romance s-s-swamped you. You are s-sw-swamped by my romance. s-s-soundlessly. S-s-silently.

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In May 2020, New York Times published the death notices and obituaries of 1000 lives lost to coronavirus on its front page. Here I find these obituaries are functioning as a highly politicalised space. It leads to my attempt to reflect on such politicalization and restore the obituary to its depoliticalized state, returning the purpose of mourning for the deceased back to it.

 

I intend to create a sensual, auditory and virtual medium to hold the obituary, rather than a printed one. Then, spoken words replace the written words that are permanently printed on the papers. I intend to create a text in flux and changing manner. The whole replacement mimics the mind where one’s attachment to others take place. I further to explore the entangled and transient relationship we share with the deceased through spoken-word text and the action of speaking.

 

In order to intensify the connection and attachment. I collect the electric signals while an audio cable jack touching all over my body. The humming, white noise like sounds are used as the background of my spoken words. Headphones are required for my listeners here. In this operation my skin can contact with listener's skin through cables across distance. I am after a skin-to-skin, body-to-body connection.

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