Kunming Kids
Oral History
Single Channel Video
Kunming Mandarin with English Subtitles
10’44”
2023
口述史
《昆明孩子》
Oral History
Single Channel Video
Kunming Mandarin with English Subtitles
10’44”
2023
口述史
单频录像
昆明话
十分四十四秒
二〇二三年
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