Adieu Language

Adieu Language is an experimental theatrical work that seamlessly integrates poetic text, multimedia projection, physical theater, and light-and-shadow installations. The work utilizes the spatial dynamics of postmodern theater to unfold a philosophical discourse on the "domestication and dilemma of thought by language." It delves deeply into the paralysis of knowledge, binary paradoxes, and the impossibility of representation.

The protagonist, "Mo," employs a decade of absolute silence to resist the erosion of the senses by concepts and knowledge. She attempts to guard an unsignified truth through "automatism" and corporeal intuition. However, this silence is shattered by the demon "Lilith" with an aggressive, suffocating kiss, triggering a fierce debate on the origins of language, the shared roots of love and hate, and Möbius-strip-like logic. Dubbed the "Guardian of Nothingness," Mo is forced to confront the barrenness of rationality and the refraction of thought at the very moment language is resurrected. As pure silence ceases to exist, she ultimately surrenders herself to the gravedigger. Amidst urban ruins and the tragic tranquility of death, she achieves the ultimate dissolution of the binary linguistic system and her own subjectivity.

The piece constructs intense rhythmic tension through sound and dialogue: high-intensity debates come to an abrupt halt, suddenly plunging the stage into a full minute of absolute silence (an homage to Godard). Shadow theater, the absurd inversion of honorific and plain speech, and violent physical collisions coalesce with poetic text and multimedia imagery. Through these elements, the work constructs a philosophical labyrinth within a minimalist audio-visual field, exploring the end of language and the disintegration of the subject.