2024 Uncollected collective Lectures: Movement of separation by Fan XiangJun

Xiang Jun’s lecture explores separation as both a temporal and epistemological condition. She reflects on this entangled feeling between her own experience of time and her daughter's time. By examining how time is perceived and articulated, she opens a space to question how we come to understand separation in the first place.

Drawing on linguistic and philosophical nuances in Chinese and German, Xiang Jun considers how language itself structures the ways of knowing and the division between a "self" and an "other". She extends this inquiry to education, framing it as an institution that subtly teaches and where we are embodied to “be separate from others, from knowledge, and even from our own embodied experiences.