Becoming Butterfly
《化蝶》
Video Diptych Collage
Two Channel Video
Cantonese
4’01”, 3’51”
2017
双联影像拼贴画
《化蝶》
Video Diptych Collage
Two Channel Video
Cantonese
4’01”, 3’51”
2017
双联影像拼贴画
粤语
四分零一秒、三分五十一秒
二〇一七年
My name is Yutong.
I am a writer and translator; sometimes I write with words, sometimes with images. For me, writing is the walk in absolute debris of an encounter—it doesn't “reveal” or “recover” a higher “truth”; it is the way language languages me. In these processes of working through the wreckage of experience and textuality, there is translation, in a broader sense.
As someone who relies on a second and third language to make myself recognizable, translation is both survival and the fundamental medium through which I connect to my surroundings.
Through writing, photography, and moving images, my practice follows the drifting paths of migration and memory, rooted in my native Himalayas.
CV here.
Email for collaboration inquiries.
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are.na
I am a writer and translator; sometimes I write with words, sometimes with images. For me, writing is the walk in absolute debris of an encounter—it doesn't “reveal” or “recover” a higher “truth”; it is the way language languages me. In these processes of working through the wreckage of experience and textuality, there is translation, in a broader sense.
As someone who relies on a second and third language to make myself recognizable, translation is both survival and the fundamental medium through which I connect to my surroundings.
Through writing, photography, and moving images, my practice follows the drifting paths of migration and memory, rooted in my native Himalayas.
CV here.
Email for collaboration inquiries.
are.na