I’m delighted to be performing blood run in Dehradun, India at the invitation of Varsha Dewan as part of her event, Jeewan, Pani Aur Kahaniyan – Ek Sangam (Life, Water and Stories- a Confluence).

Part ritual, part performance art, part colonial history inscribed on the body, blood run investigates my Han Chinese colonizer and Taiwanese plains indigenous heritage within the context of larger political histories. Combining experimental video, dance, and poetic text, the work asks: “What is the difference between an immigrant and a colonizer?” “How do the colonizer and colonized live inside the same body?” “When does survival require disappearance?”  blood run asks what hidden histories are contained in the body, while poignantly acknowledging the impossibility of fully reclaiming what has been lost.