This tongue is meant to be uncharted. Each word I relearn arrives cracked, not to be mended, but to be held as it hesitates, invents, borrows, and breaks. This tongue stutters through time, through the ghosts of colonial grammar and imperial silence.
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This Uncharted Tongue
To speak is not to restore, but to glitch. Not to remember, but to recompose. Not to record, but to rehearse. Not to reproduce, but to recharge.
These words hack a sense of strangeness to me: what does it mean to belong to something you do not know? Can you carry what you do not claim? Can you own what resists knowing?
literal translation on Chinese title:母 (mother) 知 (knows)
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Additional information
Concept, Text, Craft and Performance: Frieda Luk Scenographer: Dawn Doi Yan, Chan Scenography Assistant: Seulgi Lee Lighting Designer: Dawn Doi Yan, Chan Lighting Assistant: Nicolás San Martín Sound Artist: Shu Ching, Chon Video Artist: Luis Hartmann Rehearsal and Performance Assistance: Cary Shiu Photographer: Sara A. Mentor: Scarlet Yu, Christian Philips, and Lizzy Le Quesne Tutor: Sandra Noeth Outside eye: Julian Kraidelmann
Intellectual and Emotional Support: Mandy Li, Masha Shalagina, Mayson Fung, Müge Özbay, Owen Smith, William Seung, Derin Cankaya, Suet Wa and all my dear fellow colleagues.
My work is informed by following practice and practitioners: Butoh, Butoh Fu, Skinner Releasing Technique and Psychophysical Technique
Frieda Shao Shin Luk 陸肇欣 is a Hong Kong artist working across visual arts and performance through a multi-art form practice. Her work draws on action-based research to explore social and political commentary, often rooted in familiar cultural contexts, while responding to the unfamiliar. Her works are often small-scale and intimate. Works include: “Plastic Dance(s) 3.0” (2019), “Shit Talk Dance” (2019), “The Lost Story of Kei Lun” (2022),“Bonding” (2019-2023), “The weight of my B” (2023),“I am tasting your meal” (2023).
Intellectual and Emotional Support: Mandy Li, Masha Shalagina, Mayson Fung, Müge Özbay, Owen Smith, William Seung, Derin Cankaya, Suet Wa and all my dear fellow colleagues.
My work is informed by following practice and practitioners: Butoh, Butoh Fu, Skinner Releasing Technique and Psychophysical Technique
Frieda Shao Shin Luk 陸肇欣 is a Hong Kong artist working across visual arts and performance through a multi-art form practice. Her work draws on action-based research to explore social and political commentary, often rooted in familiar cultural contexts, while responding to the unfamiliar. Her works are often small-scale and intimate. Works include: “Plastic Dance(s) 3.0” (2019), “Shit Talk Dance” (2019), “The Lost Story of Kei Lun” (2022),“Bonding” (2019-2023), “The weight of my B” (2023),“I am tasting your meal” (2023).
Dates
November 2025
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