2020–21
Three-channel video installation
8:10 min.
Dimensions variable
Courtesy of the artist
In the first scene of keep in touch (part 1), two men stand outside of a car, waiting for the air conditioner to cool down the vehicle. As one puts on house music using the car’s CD player, their silence is broken into a state of indescribable feelings. In the second scene, shot on Super 8 film, a person tries to recount a story as he spins a pen around in his hands. As he narrates the story, which he cannot fully remember, he ponders this unusual amnesia. The final scene focuses on two pairs of hands cutting each other’s nails, their thoughts appearing as intertitles on the screen. Filmed with a non-white cast, prominently featuring queer and Asian bodies, these three different sets of moments and movements center on one key question: When the idea of an individual subject cannot be pronounced, how may we reconsider being visible, audible, or legible?