The performance and video installation “I once had a duck soup cooked with ginger and wine,
and lapsed into a comatose suspense” recalibrates hauntology by performatively evoking the
material entrails of ghosts. Five performers embody pictographic Chinese characters with
“ghost” radicals. Their queuing at Meng Po’s counter is choreographed according to the artist's
etymological reading of the characters. The work asks: If ghosts are bound to their material
counterparts, who are the subjects of the realm of yin, i.e., the realm of the (un)dead?
The bowls are two of the three props
made for the performance “I once had a
duck soup cooked with ginger and wine,
and lapsed into a comatose suspense."
The circular structure of the performance
score instructs the performers to pass the
leaking bowls around and refill them.
I Once Had A Duck Soup Cooked With Ginger And Wine, And Lapsed Into A Comatose Suspense
2022
performance, 20 minutes, with Christina Emmel, Miel Ferráez, Miyoung Chang, and Iga Swiesciak at Centrale Fies, Dro

Meng Po's Bowl #1 & #3
2022
cotton, linen, threads, stains of soup , size variable

