Parallel to the programme’s core, I also wanted to explore the scope of language and its interplay with other media. I experiment with ceramics, performance, sounds (reciting) , making publications, filmmaking, literature, translation, and the philosophy of language – as well as inspecting the question of what happens when the boundaries between these disciplines are blurred. I approach relationship from the perspective of literary forms such as words and poetry, but I take relationship as a material, instrument and construct as well. And explore, for example, how it communicate with narratives and solid objects, how these can take non-linguistic, non-graphics shapes and how much of a word is in fact an image or an object (and vice versa), and examine what happens when it is mixed in with other media. That makes the content of the project versatile and interesting (at least I think).

The Chinese name of the project (戀人絮語) is inspired by Barthes' A Lover’s Discourse (Fragments d’un discours amoureux) and the English name comes from Shakespeare. While Barthes's “A Lovers' Discourse” is full of nonsense, foolishness, and delirium, A Lover’s Complaint focuses on monologues, whispers and overthinking. The intricate ambiguities (or infatuation I would say) are the same as the relations of people, society and ego. 

"Lovers" should not be categorised as just one single subject with certain qualities. As the subjects in this project are diverse, undefined, genderless, fluid, polyphonic, multilayered and imperfect.