Fabric of life

I believe that the intuition of the body and the fragments of ordinary life can weave together another kinds of imagination rooted in care. Beyond academia, I continuously explore the body through contact improvisation and embodied media, and experiencing alternative ways of living. I view these practices as forms of self-reflexivity and expression. To see and feel the real person behind those abstract concepts.

Body as Practice

Body for me is a way of expression. Some visual arts were co-created with photographers and directors; others came from informal field experiments. Across them, I am interested in how movement, stillness, exposure, and landscape can hold feelings that are difficult to explain in words.

Body as Gathering

Body can also become a reason to gather. These moments are less about performance and more about creating a shared space where people can move, improvise, connect with each other, and experiment with trust, boundaries, and presence.

Opens a gallery where each workshop image has a detailed description.
Opens a gallery where each workshop image has a detailed description.
Opens a gallery where each workshop image has a detailed description.

Empathy Simulation

This is a kind of workshop, an ongoing experiment in making inclusion-related issues easier to approach. It creates an invitation for participants to encounter unfamiliar experiences with curiosity and opens space where different ways of sensing, deciding, and navigating the world can be felt and discussed.

These experiments began from my earlier work on gender-based violence prevention. I hope to expand this format toward disability and other topics shaped by stereotypes and assumptions.

Alternative Way of Living

This section gathers my curiosity about how life is actually built: how people define safety and home, share resources and negotiate intimacy. These questions have led me to visit and document communities experimenting with other ways of living, from co-living spaces and rural self-sufficient projects to temporary worlds such as Burning Man and tech-optimist kingdoms. These fragments are part of how I explore what kind of life I want, and what forms of freedom and belonging are possible outside of default life.

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Selected Video Work

GAPPING

An experimental dance film co-created with Director AdaQi (adaqiying.com), it attempts to create a panoramic view of relationship composed of three queering individuals that understand, demonstrate, and piece together an visual film through a combination of improvised physical theatre and visual exploration.

It embodies a Sisyphean alternating climax, originating from the first touch of fingertips.

The temporal and spatial dislocation in the present moment is not only reflected in the delay of actions but also universalizes this experiential difference. The fusion and fragmentation of individuals, the connection between subject and self/nature, as well as a relationship characterized by ambiguity, specificity, manipulation, gaze, and blur, may all be life experiences we possess in different time and space.

Exhibition

NAE OPEN 2026 at the New Art Exchange, Nottingham, UK

2023 at JinpiFang, Shenzhen, China