Critical Practice
Yuxuan Xiao
Yuxuan is a she who is interested in the transience, unconsciousness and the define of objectivity through the exploring of herself subjectivity. Her works provide her a projection about herself toward the social context while trying to be neutral at an observer posintion in the world through her eyes and mind. She is working on expanding the potential of communication through mutiple dimensions of sensation above the vision of objects.
She used to stay in Brighton for 3 years for studying Media Pratice in Sussex University.She was born in Wuhan, China, 1994 and brought there till 2014.
iPhone photo, 2020.3
Vauxhall, London
A Story About It
An action taken out from subconsciousness for memory an individual subjectivity response in a period of obscure at another way of illustrating, the chapters come together as narrative direction for her to view the self-inner world from mythical memory of distanced land, and also to characterise the object for subjects to review the life experience in the transience in the triviality of transience.
Medium:
Night, Moon, WaterNight —
Moon
The punctum in rhetoric plane undertaking gaze and the endurance of dull duration, the dualism of durational interaction between the objection to subject is dimming in the distanced aural melody in the gaze on the fixed object. Texture of suppression with trivia is distanced as myth to objectivity, truth-to-nature in one sensory apparatus as aura shinning, or dancing in the dark to be there, bearing the projection from here at the beginning in a distanced mythical story.
Moon is related to the eternality of flexible and fluid human emotions as a symbol in ancient Chinese ideology. In another dimension of vision, there is about another world’s imagination. The uncomfortable tensions in the vibration of sound conjunctures communication through multi-sensational feelings for delivering message for the possibility to other dimensions. In traditional Chinese literature, the moon usually undertakes the imagination of creator’s subjects for their emotional communications through this medium. It’s always changing but always there, it’s another side opposite to what can be seen under the light.
Moon is related to the eternality of flexible and fluid human emotions as a symbol in ancient Chinese ideology. In another dimension of vision, there is about another world’s imagination. The uncomfortable tensions in the vibration of sound conjunctures communication through multi-sensational feelings for delivering message for the possibility to other dimensions. In traditional Chinese literature, the moon usually undertakes the imagination of creator’s subjects for their emotional communications through this medium. It’s always changing but always there, it’s another side opposite to what can be seen under the light.
Medium:
video
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Blank
It's editing sequence of the video documents where I refer the blank paper as medium of my memory crystallisation. In a mind of representing the concept of Buddhism philosophy” the illumination is emptiness, the emptiness is illumination”, however after I write the script down it feels more like critic rather than presenting.It's possibly a process of unfolding, though I was trying to be neutral in the contemporary digit ocean.
Medium:
moving image, soundwork
The Land
The Riverbank
In the searching of beauty with a kind of decay of aesthetics in the process of Chinese modernisation, I want to leave the vestigial visual traces for future for reviewing forward and behind, by alienation. It’s deserted square next to the Yangtze river, surrounded by the skyscrapers as new home for people to live in with higher price of owning right or as refund for their old space, while this space of emptiness and ruins is what left behind as the most close place in my memory scene of nostalgia.