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Yixin Flora Huang

Yixin (Flora) Huang (b.1997, China) is a multidisciplinary contemporary artist. She completed her undergraduate degree at the Glasgow School of Art, where she received her Bachelors in Fine Art Painting and Printmaking with Honours. For her degree show work EXUVIATION (2018), she was awarded a place in the Royal Scottish Academy's New Contemporaries 2019. While at the Royal College of Art, she also earned a four-week residency at the Slade School of Fine Art, which culminated in an exhibition shown at both the Slade and Camden Art Centre.

Her work explores what it means to be human, the arbitrary lines we define ourselves by and what separates us from non-human animals and machines, delving into ideas of post-humanism. Using a variety of mediums such as film, contemporary dance, music and poetry she aims to create a feeling of dissonance within the viewer, magnifying their capacity to feel and challenge their long-standing assumptions. Her work leads the audience to question everything that exists beyond the rational self. 

Contact

https://www.yixin.co.uk

Degree Details

School of Arts & Humanities

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Following years of studying feminist theory, the subjects I explore in my art practice have slowly shifted from those of gender equality and gender dualism to the definition of dualism itself. I was particularly drawn to filming gesture-based videos to represent the duality of the body and its movement. Through contemporary art dance style, the performers convey intense animalistic freedom, while retaining a dreamlike grace - a pure expression of emotion through gesture. Via this concept I looked to focus more on the raw dynamism of human movement and less on the body itself.

Limerence
In the course of Limerence, I was focusing in particular on the animalistic human gesture in contemporary dance. The gestures of the body are explored through the reflections and traces of movement captured in the performer's clothing. The broad range and obscure purpose of the gestures challenge our deeply ingrained expectations of 'human' - as opposed to 'animal' - behavior. This project sheds light on the arbitrary nature of the boundaries between the human and the animal, and the ways in which human subjectivity - our sense of who we are - is constructed.

Size:

1:30 minutes

In Collaboration with:

Nexcyia otherwise known as Adam Dove is an African-American/French sound artist and experimental ambient musician based in London and Paris. His sound practice is lofi woven with harsh sound design, swooping soundscapes and uses found sound to draw inspiration into his practice. Their sound bridges many moods, emotions and places through noise, granular synthesis, textures and rhythms.
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< 2 minutes (2019)
< 2 minutes (2018)
< 2 minutes (2019)
< 2 minutes is a series of videos that I produced between 2018 to 2020; each is no more than two minutes long. In these experimental videos, my purpose is to demonstrate the peculiar features of each material and its interaction with the human body.

Size:

1:11 , 1:01 , 00:29

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