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

She is currently a PhD student in Sociocultural Anthropology at Columbia Univeristy. Her ongoing 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 articulate the relation specific to China’s mode of expansion that differs from and in tensions with the Western settler colonial framework. More interiorly, her research and artistic interests meet at the politics and the erotics of ephemeral and unexpected encounters within transnational processes. 

Contact: xg2473@columbia.edu

^{Photo by My Mama}