Response to a performance by artist Yingmei Duan. This video and its making is the subject of the chapter 'A Late Performance: Intimate Distance (Yingmei Duan)' in Bickis & Shields (eds.) 'Rereading Jean-Francois Lyotard: Essays on His Later Works', Ashgate, 2013. http://www.ashgate.com/isbn/9781409435679