2022
Site-Specific Installation, Durational Performance
ZK/U Center for Arts & Urbanistics
The durational work The Sail From The Red Sea features an array of objects and movements including scaffolding, industrial privacy screen, sailboat cloth, and a performative lecture on gendered and invisible labor, through which Xie reimagines an architectural drawing created by Xie's grandfather in the late 1950s. Drawing inspiration from John Steinbeck's The Log from the Sea of Cortez and its insights into migrant workers and social justice, the sailboat serves as a symbol of (im)migration and nomadic existence, searching for a way to be. The work draws attention to notions of 'borders' and 'borderlands,' expanding contemporary perceptions of politically divisive geographic lines.
