Zhan,Si-Min

Introduction

Jasmine Chan is a student at the Graduate Institute for Taiwan Literature. Her research interests include philosophy and Huang Tu-shui's sculpture, “Water of Immortality”. Recently, she has been thinking through the issue of exilic Tibetans from and interlingual and intergenerational perspective to the question of whether this group harbors some form of elusive love, as described by Marguerite Duras. Her most outstanding and successful literary work is her personal diary, and her favorite author is Anaïs Nin. Her work has appeared in publications such as Postmodern Petite Bourgeoisie and the Taiwan Alliance for Ending the Death Penalty (TAEDP) e-newsletter.

Resident planning

The project is entitled “Have You Re-written the Diary That Was Eaten by Termites?” She explains: “At the end of last year, when I was looking for my diary in my old apartment, I found that all the diary entries of the past ten years had been chewed up by termites. In it, there were stories about what I saw and heard during the occupation of the Legislative Yuan in 2014, the mix of emotions I felt when I was involved with social movements, and my subsequent experience as a university student and mother. I would like to use this residency as an opportunity to re-write my diary, so that the stories of my life, which are personal but linked to a collective conscious, can be revived and circulated. I will write two essays in the style of a diary, and one satirical article reflecting on women's bodies and reproduction from the critical perspective of the column ‘When Evil Re-occurs’. There will also be short reflections on the three lectures.”