Thought 4 -Milton Lim October 24th

My name is Milton Lim and this is my fourth thought residency. Dedicated to the ESL community I'm currently taking part in the Block A program at Playwright' s Theatre Centre, it consists of weekly writing workshops. When I participate in the act of writing, I sometimes think of my friend Tyler Russell, Executive Director/Curator of the Centre A Gallery, and the time he asked me why I only create work in English. Why I directly/indirectly support linguistic colonization as part of my practice. At the time, I didn't have a better answer than the fact that my only operative language is English, but since then I've been examining isolated components of language in an attempt to by-pass it, for example looking at the visual or the written instead of the aural or exploring only the affect of second person narrative. The option I've been avoiding is that I learn a second language so that my artistic choice is not one so seemingly based out of necessity.