Headlands Center for the Arts

While at Headlands:
I will be shoring up what appears to be a collection of short stories with gothic roots. They explore the horror in the everyday, and orbit questions of knowledge, intimacy, and power. As a resident, I’m hoping the buildings and history of Headland’s will encourage the ghosts to come out and play. I will also be spending a lot of time at the piano.

Artist Statement:
I’m a Beijing-born, Berlin-based writer and visual artist. My audiovisual work examines the intersections of personal and collective historiography: archives, traces, and confrontations with residues of violence and desire found amongst them. I’m draw to ambivalence, which I find the most interesting psychic state to explore. My writing, which feels oddly separate (though it likely isn’t), is more anchored in hypotheses of power and becoming. A lifelong northerner, I’m inspired by the Southern Gothic and constructions of morality and otherness, as well as the ethical implications—and comic absurdities—in processes of reconstruction. Although perhaps the common denominator of all these practices is a drive to resist identity.