Art, Literature and Life

My work explores artistic and literary approaches in narrativity, poetry, and calligraphy. My work seeks a "denominator" of languages in all modalities (written, signed, spoken, and drawn forms).

Performativity, Arche-writing and Arche-speaking

My work explores grammatology (art/science of writing) and various ways of writing/speaking with a unique blend of cinematic vocabulary, linguistic choreography, verbal calligraphy, visual poetry, and language, including ASL/Ameslan.

My body is the writing instrument. In performance, my body scribes in the air with or without some materials (arche-speaking). In video, video is not regarded for me as traditionally image-producing; rather, it is treated as a multi-dimensional, digital-temporal paper to scribe on (arche-writing).

Note: by the term "speaking," I am not referred to "vocally speaking;" rather, it is defined as a verbal form, whether its modality is visual-manual or vocal-auditory (known as sign language and speech language, respectively).

Keywords

grammatology, performativity, poetry, verbal calligraphy, textuality, language art, lingual choreography, cinematic vocabulary, literary art, narrative, photocalligraphy, Derrida, logocentrism, arche-writing, deconstruction and reconstruction of language, trace, erasure, palimpsest.

Mediums

video, performance, photography, web art, text, mixed media.