Fan Wu

This text explores the dislocation between mouth and language in the Asian diaspora. It charts both the breakdown and breakthrough of language vis-a-vis the mouth.

Eddy Wang and Fan Wu interview each other about racial melancholy, the English language, China, work, friendship, and dissociation. Using tools from psychoanalysis and critical theory, this seven part interview looks at the possibilities and impossibilities of living as an Asian-Canadian subject in 2020.

Follows a young woman named Audrey Benac on a research odyssey of ghostly possession in which she endeavours to restore the legacy of the forgotten Canadian violinist Kathleen Parlow.