Lee Weng Choy talks with Ho Tzu Nyen1

LWC: We all repeat ourselves, but some of us worry about it more than others. Perhaps that’s the difference between you and I. I think that you worry more than I do — about repeating yourself, among other things. Sure, I repeat myself too; I am making a small career of repeating myself when it comes to writing about your work, and about your worrying. I like to think it goes with the territory. Over the years that we’ve known each other, over the years that I’ve been engaging with your work, watching and listening to your films, lectures, performances and installations, again and again, and then attempting to speak back to them via my own writing — this whole process lends itself to revisits, reiterations, and revisions. Much like in your work: you have these central preoccupations, which you return to over and over again; preoccupations which are evident in your latest Lear productions.
But before we talk about the upcoming performances, a few things about the first one, as a way of …