Issue 003 –Later they realized

Xuan Liu 刘璇

Later they realized
Translated by Youkun Zhou 周幼昆

the two of them
grew up in neighboring hutongs,
and went to the same kindergarten,
the same primary school.
To know the exact distance,
he suggests, let’s close our eyes
and imagine our way home
after school.
In this game,
to align perspectives,
she turns around and stands on his left,
facing the same way.

Xuan Liu 刘璇 (b.1997, China) is a performance artist and poet based in Bangkok, Thailand. She employs mindful improvisation as the main practice in approaching her subjects, considering both performance art and writing to be inquiries into physical objects and meandering approaches to the ultimate essence of things. Through improvisation, she sees relations and kinship being formed and revealed.