AMERICAN NEW GENRES ARTIST

xiouping

xiouping (b. analog era), affectionately known as “TNT” for their Taiwanese and Texan roots, is an American New Genres artist whose work serves as a vital intersection of identity politics and storytelling. Through installations, sculpture, photography, writing, video, and performance, xiouping navigates time and space, meditating on the diaspora of animacy and co-worlding cultural heritage. Their practice deconstructs oppressive systems and societal norms, fostering a reclamation of agency, healing, and a subversion of dominant narratives, while challenging the relationship between art and audience.

Academic recognitions include a Bachelor of Fine Arts at the San Francisco Art Institute and a Master of Fine Arts with a Distinguished Studio Award from Otis College of Art and Design. xiouping has exhibited across the US and Mexico City, with notable showcases in San Francisco, New York, Los Angeles, and Salt Lake City.

They developed Modalities of Performance, a curriculum exploring rest as resistance, ritual as activism, embodiment as connection, and somatics as transformative practice.

In their lecture A Seed is Born: From the Soil We Rise to the Soil We Will Return, xiouping uses seeds as metaphors for resilience within grief rituals.

Currently, they divide their time between Venice Beach and the Sequoias, drawing inspiration from both landscapes to inform their work.

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