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Pauses, Mumbles, Whispers, Silences
Poetry Reading + Film Screening
Screening curated by Yanbin Zhao
Reading curated by Laetitia Keok
A Gaza Community Fundraiser
November 2, 2025, 6:00pm
Accent Sisters
Pauses, Mumbles, Whispers, Silences convenes a series of experimental shorts that probe the negative space of language—the blockages, frictions, attenuations, and erasures that arise in the act of enunciation. These interruptions reflect broader structures: political instability, geopolitical entanglement, cross-cultural mediation, kinship, and postcolonial trauma. Through subversive visual strategies and speculative perspectives, the works attempt to trace, disclose, and counteract linguistic absence.
In addition, four writers come together to interrogate the limits of language and the consequences of silence. In what ways does the poet’s gaze fail, and how can we continue to insist on our witnessing in spite of these failures?
Here, language becomes both subject and method: its instrumental function is suspended, opening instead toward resistant forms of articulation and a redefinition of linguistic boundaries amid ambiguity and indeterminacy.
Participating artists include Yan Wai Yin, Onyou Oh, Tenzin Phuntsog, Udval Altangerel, Sky Hopinka, Shen Xin, and Eva Giolo, with readings by Maria Gray, Jenevieve Ting, Basalt Hsu, and Bella Blue.