Raised in the multilingual environment of Penang island, a historic trading port between Southeast Asia, India, China and the west, Okui’s work investigates migration, mobilities and diasporic identities. In recent years, she has been researching across Burma, Japan and Malaysia. Inspired by two Japanese language learning books (for Burmese) that she bought in Yangon and Tokyo, Okui will engage in a conversation and performance that questions labour, translation and adaptation.