The project concentrates on the constant loneliness inherent in human beings and

aims to show the futility of people trying to create a connection in love. Through

performance, the project uses body and language as a medium to convey that in love,

the lover is only an illusive projection of perfect self-consciousness. The bounding

of human beings is a false proposition, and the breaking and diffusion of loneliness

is an unrealistic statement. One can’t reach the other’s ideal land.

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The conclusion that “the world cannot be truly shared and perceived” comes from

an intimacy practice I had. During a relationship with a person with major depres-

sion, I realized that in romantic relationships, the psychological disorder caused by

mental illness could amplify a common flaw within love. The person’s perception

of the emotional world is often an intensely exclusive and personal experience, and

therefore unique and uncommunicable, which often excludes the other from the

world of the inner self. It will thus deepen emotional self-isolation. This experience

led me to a deeper understanding and reflection on the dark side of love.

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The project consists of three acts that deconstruct my view of love through three

dimensions. In act I, we can only communicate purely through tears. It symbolizes

that even love can hardly lead people to perceive the most vulnerable of the other’s

heart truly. In act II, the language corresponds to the myth, the Tower of Babel in

love. I aim to apply the dialogue to reveal its function as a signifier that can never

reach the referent. In act III, the other one in love is an object of desire, while the

love is based on fantasies about each other. I aim to corroborate the nature of nar-

cissistic imagination in love by dancing with the void.

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The project indicates that in a contemporary society where the signifiers are wildly

broken, love, as one of the universal themes of humanity, or the smallest unit of

communism, is also vital for human life as it can be linked to other texts for human

exploration. The work is presented by photography and video, completed by actors’

most genuine and personal reactions to demonstrate the common lonely fate and

crippling situation of human beings in love.