Cicada molting is a process that is fascinating to me.
The molting signifies that the larvae are becoming strong. Inspired by this process, my work sheds the consumer armature of everyday objects in my apartment. The process feels like a cleansing. The embellishments of corporate design are stripped away, and my relationship to objects in space is made more ethereal. Everything can breathe again. The skeletal mesh outlines delineate things but their materiality is sacrificed for the sake of a more open and meditative perception of the environment. The process is also healing and therapeutic, an antidote to the traumatic aftermath of a severe car accident in which, although nobody was seriously injured, we were shaken by the disruption of our complacent assumptions about our mortality. My accompanying Buster-Keaton-influenced video of routines performed with the mesh forms adds a twist of absurdity to the ghostliness of voided forms.
(Xiyun Xu, 2021)
Wish You Good Fortune - Lucky Food ( 2nd iteration)
Converting the I’Ching fortune-telling to hex diagram related foods, Lucky Food aims to vibrate the Chinese restaurant with performance and sharing each one‘s lucky food on the LED message board.
Applying white dot lines and arrows on the facade of the Chines resturant, artist tries to call attention from passerbys on the street. The arrows point to the lucky foods which the artist suggested to participants in the I’Ching fortune-telling performance. Note on lucky foods are pin on the led event board.
