Candlelight (!Dinner) - Lonely Corridor Studio

Candlelight (!Dinner) And Family Friends (pronounced /not dinner/) invites

I had a candlelight not-dinner with all my audience.

None of my visual or writing work escaped the theme of romanticism. All my writings are love letters — to a person or to a group, to concrete experience or abstract concepts. “Not romantic? That’s almost deadly romantic!” I once said this when arguing. I think this sentence defines the underlying aesthetics of my works.

I had a candlelight not-dinner with all my audience.

None of my visual or writing work escaped the theme of romanticism. All my writings are love letters — to a person or to a group, to concrete experience or abstract concepts. “Not romantic? That’s almost deadly romantic!” I once said this when arguing. I think this sentence defines the underlying aesthetics of my works.

My creative journey as a complex, contingent, interconnected, and interlaced web.

In Foucault’s words, genealogy analyses is meant to (re)discover and relink the contingent events, pointing to the fact that any system of thinking, including the one in my brain, is the result of unforeseen turns of (personal) history and not rational planned sequential events.

My creative journey as a complex, contingent, interconnected, and interlaced web.

In Foucault’s words, genealogy analyses is meant to (re)discover and relink the contingent events, pointing to the fact that any system of thinking, including the one in my brain, is the result of unforeseen turns of (personal) history and not rational planned sequential events.

I wrote the sticky notes and the entire poem with my non-dominant hand.

When using my non-dominant hand, the muscle memories and subconscious express lanes of writing (v.)

I wrote the sticky notes and the entire poem with my non-dominant hand.

When using my non-dominant hand, the muscle memories and subconscious express lanes of writing (v.)

Year

2025

Artistic Era

Waxing Gibbous Moon

Production Timeframe

Sep - Oct 2025

Medium

(Double) performance and mixed-media interactive environment, ink on paper, rose, ink on stickie notes, glass vase, water, foam board, yarn, superglue, sand, LED lamp, LED light strip, archaeology brushes, partition whiteboards

Sizes

Variable

Credit

*family dinner*

Tom Leeser

Susie Zhu

Hao Chen

Dongpu Ling

Molly Wurwand

HUANG Kai Qing

Abril Jiang

Yanqi He

Miles Zhu

Cody Perkins