Qu Chang
March, 2024
This essay takes the form of diary entries and excerpts of texts by Judith Butler and Roland Barthes as a means of signaling the multiple lives and intersubjectivity that mourning evokes, similar to what Isaac Chong Wai has explored in his performances since the mid-2010s. Mourning constantly requests the indication of time for those lost in the struggle between “bringing memory to the past” and “bringing past to memory” (David L. Eng and David Kazanjian).