durational performance/installation taking place in two iterations at Armory Center for the Arts, Los Angeles
In Trampoline House: Memory Drawing Series, Xie transforms a playground into a stage of temporal disintegration. Drawing from children’s games and the rawness of construction site materials, this durational performance collapses the boundaries between play and labor.
A trampoline becomes the platform for a living drawing, where a large chalk piece is layered over original architectural renderings from Xie's grandfather—blueprints from the 1960s.
Every memory is an empty theater. As the durational performance slowly dissolves the chalk drawing, the ephemeral nature of memory takes form in every movement.
durational performance/site-specific installation at ZK/U Center for Arts and Urbanistics, Berlin
durational performance/site-specific installation at ZK/U Center for Arts and Urbanistics, Berlin
Sailboat cloth, scaffolding, embroidery cotton thread, sound installation
multi-media installation on view at Wende Museum, CA
multi-media installation currently on view at Wende Museum
Bamboo poles, washers, embroidery cotton thread on industrial mesh
Multi-channel multi-media installation
SCH 40 steel, wheels, fabric, ink, soap wash stain, cheese borough, HD videos, continuous loop (color/sound)
Installation on view at USC Pacific Asia Museum, Los Angeles, CA
Four Hours Long Durational Performance, Photo Documentation, 2018
This durational performance, in the Garden at Hauser & Wirth Los Angeles, examines memory and identity through movement and repetition
Four Hours Long Durational Performance, Photo Documentation, 4 hours
The Durational work invites viewers to examine an abstract conversation between three people (my grandfather, my grandmother and myself) and two generations through a long distance relationship. Through these actions, I hope to establish new connections between people and places, as a form of “exercising” memory, which in turn aims to produce new identities.
