Throughout the 12-day span of the performance, Yuen reads aloud 11 books covering themes of Hong Kong cultural and political shifts after 2019, Chinese religion and politics, in a room he constructed that has 11 panels of one-way mirrored windows installed. After each day of performance, the windows were then each covered with a strip of print that had designs of Yuen’s Hong Kong personal IDs, including his student card, bank card, medical allergy card, ID card, etc. On the very last day of the performance, whereas all windows were blocked, Yuen spoke to himself for hours before calling his close friend, Marco Chan, in the enclosed space. After their conversation, they opened the handwritten letters that they had written for each other simultaneously, ending the 12-day reading marathon by covering the surveillance camera in the room, which provided live footage of the room throughout to the CRT outside the setting.

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