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We Both Knew (Wir wussten beide), 2025
Spoken word, 10 mins
FWR Galerie Berlin, 2025
This collaborative performance is a dialogue between Jeiryung Lee and Chi-Hsuan Lo, each working through their own language: for Jei, writing text; for Hsuan, sound. Beginning with observations of everyday situations, the piece unfolds through the sensation of “otherness.” What does it mean to write from a place of not belonging, and how might that position be heard? How can two practices speak to one another while remaining irreducible to a shared language? During the performance, Jei types text live, while Hsuan responds in real time with sound, creating parallel yet non-identical forms of articulation. Their exchange does not aim for translation or resolution, but stays with the gaps, misalignments, and moments of recognition that emerge between text and sound. In this way, the work becomes a conversation shaped by difference, in which both artists remain partially opaque to one another, and where “not belonging” is not only a subject but also a condition of the performance itself.
Photo and video documentation by Frank Freitag, Melo Börner, Cheng Hsu Chung. Edited by Jeiryung Lee.