Liminal Stranding (2023) is a thirty-minute one-person performance written, directed, and performed by Wang at Platform Theatre, presented as the Central Saint Martins MA Performance Design and Practice graduation show. The work develops the second part of Blue (2022) — the chemsex aftermath material — into a narrative theatre piece, building on the live-performance framework first staged in Blue Dream (2022). Its protagonist, Harry, is a Chinese international student bound for Brighton, returning to China after an accidental overdose has marked the eve of his departure.

The set is minimal and exact: a toilet on a white plinth as direct homage to Duchamp's Fountain, flanked by a sink, a mattress, and three projection surfaces — a front semi-transparent screen, a back screen, and an overhead frame screen — that 'trap' the performer within. The opening pose registers Bacon's Triptych May–June 1973; Lana Del Rey's 'A&W' opens the soundscape; the closing image moves to a Brighton beach as Jeff Buckley's 'Lilac Wine' plays. New footage shot on Kodak VISION3 Super 8 500T at night — the technique chosen in deliberate dialogue with Jarman's Blue (1993) — layers with material drawn from Blue (2022) across the three screens, producing a grain that lets bodies recede into invisibility while voices remain audible. Wang developed a trinity projection-mapping system for the work: Harry's encounters — friends, lovers, strangers — appear only as 'phantoms' projected on the front transparent screen, and at moments the protagonist 'enters' the screen himself, creating a double-exposure effect.

Inside this architecture, the work stages liminality directly as a spatial and temporal condition. Class precarity, chemsex, COVID-era mask politics, Sinophobia, and the figure of an overdosed stranger Harry cannot leave behind converge across thirty minutes that hold the threshold open without resolving it. The piece extends the autobiofiction of Blue and Blue Dream into a larger architectural register, with the body present at every layer of the apparatus. Blue Dream rehearsed the form; Liminal Stranding tests it at the scale of a room.