Xingyan (b.2002, Qinghai) is an anthropologist and a transdisciplinary artist, living between New York City and Mexico City with her dog Pacha.

She is also a PhD student in Sociocultural Anthropology at Columbia Univeristy. Her current academic project lives with the movement of people(s), goods, and money(s) from China through Mexico to the United States. At such conjuncture, she seeks to name a (colonial) relation specific to China’s mode of expansion that differs from, and potentially unsettles, the Western settler colonial framework.

More interiorly, her research and artistic interests meet at the politics, the poetics, and the erotics of ephemeral and unexpected encounters within transnational processes. She asks: how might we zoom in from the geopolitical to the erotic, and zoom out from the intersubjective to the political-economic, in order to navigate the unbounded scope and meteoric tempo of today’s worldly web of exchange?

Xingyan translates her thinking into writings, images, book-makings, and performances. She sculpts context-specific art objects that propose new modes of relation for one to play with, live in, and follow through. Her artist’s book was acquired by the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York.

Contact: guoxingyan2002@gmail.com

^{Photo by My Mama}