Frieda Luk 陸肇欣
This Unchartered Tongue
© Sara A.This unchartered tongue carries words I can no longer pronounce, or ones I must invent on the spot.
It is spoken in the cracks on the map of my mother tongue.
It stutters, hesitates, invents, mimics, borrows, and breaks.
It is not yet recorded in my body - unregistered.
It manifests in a voice that knows but cannot speak.
What does it mean to live in a language that feels both intimate and alien? What if the only way to speak familiarly is to speak incompletely? This unchartered tongue does not seek fluency—it seeks errors, noise, fragments, and rupture.
literal translation on Chinese title:母 (mother) 知 (knows)
Frieda Shao Shin Luk is a Hong Kong artist working across visual arts and performance through a multi-art form practice. Her work draws on action-based research to explore social and political commentary, often rooted in familiar cultural contexts, while responding to the unfamiliar. Her works are often small-scale and intimate. Works include: “Plastic Dance(s) 3.0” (2019), “Shit Talk Dance” (2019), “The Lost Story of Kei Lun” (2022),“Bonding” (2019-2023), “The weight of my B” (2023),“I taste your meal” (2023).