https://beaxu.xyz Bea Xu Mon, 22 Jun 2026 12:45:16 +0000 https://beaxu.xyz en https://beaxu.xyz/Digital-Twin-Protocol Mon, 22 Jun 2026 12:45:16 +0000 Bea Xu https://beaxu.xyz/Digital-Twin-Protocol Digital Twin Protocol <img width="2458" height="1356" width_o="2458" height_o="1356" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/06ec184c7291112e8c9cb75d6fd052c0e7da294b0e4ae23c071a6feb94e38705/Screenshot-2026-06-22-at-14.00.06.png" data-mid="249701731" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/06ec184c7291112e8c9cb75d6fd052c0e7da294b0e4ae23c071a6feb94e38705/Screenshot-2026-06-22-at-14.00.06.png" /> Digital Twin Protocol is a LARP workshop designed by artist &amp; psychotherapist Bea Xu that reinterprets &amp; ritualises a counter-surveillance praxis document devised by ‘Mark Wayne’ and posted in a leftist Telegram group for dissemination in 2024. <img width="591" height="1280" width_o="591" height_o="1280" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/0cf6c1dea6d54f38784fd179746440dbae06b6d99a2a76bb9576c42e2c31d317/photo_516-11-2025_14-50-39.jpg" data-mid="249700535" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/591/i/0cf6c1dea6d54f38784fd179746440dbae06b6d99a2a76bb9576c42e2c31d317/photo_516-11-2025_14-50-39.jpg" /> Over the course of 2-4 hours, 9+ players use everyday devices and online platforms to engage in a LARP that gamifies the act of seizing narrative control over the characterisation of their ‘digital twins’ (simulations of our identity constructed out of our online data that can be used by companies like Palantir to predict our behaviour). Using analogue techniques to construct new ‘sub-personalities’ within these digital twins that are full of internal contradictions and inconsistencies, wholly different to their physical selves, the protocol implicitly teaches players how to data poison the algorithm in order to evade its capture on an individual, household and ultimately community-wide level. <img width="500" height="366" width_o="500" height_o="366" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/4fa3f7ed394d95a6bae53300539802c4fecb53c435cd244c033e40174f56f366/tumblr_pdq34lxGvi1x8dg6go1_500.png" data-mid="249700861" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/500/i/4fa3f7ed394d95a6bae53300539802c4fecb53c435cd244c033e40174f56f366/tumblr_pdq34lxGvi1x8dg6go1_500.png" /> Drawing on clinical frameworks from Internal Family Systems (IFS) and Psychosynthesis to think about intrapsychic parts and identities, Bea is developing a burgeoning ‘alter-reality roleplay’ methodology through Digital Twin Protocol that allows participants to use play to leverage the epistemological fragmentation and accelerating novelty that communicative capitalism has put upon us as a temporary mode of adaptation before that window of possibility is closed down. The playtest and first iteration of the protocol took place at Eaton Hotel, Hong Kong as part of Institution of Niche’s Retrograde Divination Protocols in November 2025. More documentation coming soon.&nbsp; https://beaxu.xyz/Plutonic-Bonding Tue, 03 Dec 2024 23:40:44 +0000 Bea Xu https://beaxu.xyz/Plutonic-Bonding Plutonic Bonding <img width="1122" height="1280" width_o="1122" height_o="1280" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/ee00a246df35d1efaf45d3618613c11207b6f2b300782160df46a0fa3329d0e8/ig_image.jpg" data-mid="222841238" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/ee00a246df35d1efaf45d3618613c11207b6f2b300782160df46a0fa3329d0e8/ig_image.jpg" /> Ϛʍҽąɾվ çӀօմժ çɾąʂհҽʂ ìղէօ էհҽ քąէհ օƒ ʍìӀҟ.&nbsp;Ͳհҽ վҽӀӀօա ժաąɾƒ ҍҽçօʍҽʂ ą ɾҽժ ցìąղէ. ටӀժ ʂօìӀ ҍմɾղʂ էօ ąʂհҽʂ.&nbsp;Ꭰօҽʂ էհҽ ɾҽժ ցìąղէ Ӏҽąѵҽ? Ͳաօ ҽցցʂ ąɾҽ ҽցց ąցąìղ. During a time of ecological unravelling, Plutonic Bonding is a psychogeographic LARP protocol connecting players to terrains across multiple timelines at a base location and its surrounding sites. Equipped with an inventory device applying the method of loci, a shallowly deep lore of the cosmos is uncovered as characters are guided to encounter and encode the entities inhabiting the land – whomst may well hold the key to accelerating extreme microclimates of the near future. <img width="3024" height="4032" width_o="3024" height_o="4032" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/844743656a9214f2be25e8fb9174694ab81b6eaf54dc480b4256664bf0143e39/72B8EBBF-A602-446F-AFA0-F6A23E95582D.jpg" data-mid="222841833" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/844743656a9214f2be25e8fb9174694ab81b6eaf54dc480b4256664bf0143e39/72B8EBBF-A602-446F-AFA0-F6A23E95582D.jpg" /> Designed and facilitated with Nick Koppenhagen, the playtest and first iteration of the protocol took place at au JUS, Brussels in June 2024.&nbsp; <img width="3024" height="4032" width_o="3024" height_o="4032" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/0d13f65219281ad63d1f080b6f44a8851f8ebd4175f7c97d7352016334adabc4/EC19C164-D677-4E9B-871F-6EBF1E549A7F.jpg" data-mid="222841837" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/0d13f65219281ad63d1f080b6f44a8851f8ebd4175f7c97d7352016334adabc4/EC19C164-D677-4E9B-871F-6EBF1E549A7F.jpg" /> <img width="3024" height="4032" width_o="3024" height_o="4032" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/cc4393a64d63e958f730a436c69cf247df09b114b68738771fb85e67dd165b33/D4B072A7-01F8-473F-8EFB-D963089AC1A7.jpg" data-mid="222841836" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/cc4393a64d63e958f730a436c69cf247df09b114b68738771fb85e67dd165b33/D4B072A7-01F8-473F-8EFB-D963089AC1A7.jpg" /> <img width="3024" height="4032" width_o="3024" height_o="4032" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/95ecf5d175403c8f64a588ce46e8cca74fb59facbdc8c570f34105bcd364fb1d/C8268ADF-8EF0-4D6C-B80C-78916D5A2C02.jpg" data-mid="222841835" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/95ecf5d175403c8f64a588ce46e8cca74fb59facbdc8c570f34105bcd364fb1d/C8268ADF-8EF0-4D6C-B80C-78916D5A2C02.jpg" /> <img width="3024" height="4032" width_o="3024" height_o="4032" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/693b39d30d3cf6c867e5f4ec6f769e9eb76fc3ea629b2f8c89e188b7c0810186/96621B18-1512-4A42-9B37-D0B67CEA38D4.jpg" data-mid="222841834" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/693b39d30d3cf6c867e5f4ec6f769e9eb76fc3ea629b2f8c89e188b7c0810186/96621B18-1512-4A42-9B37-D0B67CEA38D4.jpg" /> Documentation by Mantra Watsa https://beaxu.xyz/Nemesis-or-a-Falling-Star Sun, 01 Dec 2024 19:12:39 +0000 Bea Xu https://beaxu.xyz/Nemesis-or-a-Falling-Star Nemesis ≈ or, a Falling Star <img width="1132" height="1132" width_o="1132" height_o="1132" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/6206e403c74aeffacf0ec2c79376bdbf87aa4178490ea5a09cc9d1bfbfd510d0/promo_image.jpg" data-mid="222706744" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/6206e403c74aeffacf0ec2c79376bdbf87aa4178490ea5a09cc9d1bfbfd510d0/promo_image.jpg" /> Nemesis ≈ or, a Falling Star: publicity image by Kiikamour A 4-hour durational performance at 𝗶𝗻 𝘃𝗶𝘁𝗿𝗼, Gossamer Fog for 𝗛𝗬𝗣𝗔-𝗣𝗛𝗜𝗫𝗘𝗗, May 2024, curated by Kiikamour / Jordan Edge.&nbsp;the eclipsed sun is a heart pierced eternally [ᴅᴇᴅɪᴄᴀᴛᴇᴅ ᴛᴏ ʀᴀꜰᴀʜ, ᴘᴀʟᴇꜱᴛɪɴᴇ, ᴛʜᴇ ꜱᴛᴜᴅᴇɴᴛ ʀᴇꜱɪꜱᴛᴀɴᴄᴇ ᴍᴏᴠᴇᴍᴇɴᴛ ᴀɴᴅ ᴀʟʟ ᴏꜰ ᴛʜᴇ ɢʟᴏʙᴀʟʟʏ ᴅɪꜱᴘᴏꜱꜱᴇꜱꜱᴇᴅ] 𖤐 Following seasons of close reading Gruppo di Nun’s Revolutionary Demonology within a demure clew of emergent Gothic Insurrectionists,飞飞 introduces its infant worm-emissary ≈ cosmic serpent avatar ≈ xeno-originator proxy. Emboldened by humanity’s accelerating collective shadow integration of the settler-colonial military industrial complex, this 4-hour durational performance writhes through schemata of possible occult praxes: a coagulatio of solarisation*, catastrophic astrology and active extinctionism to obscure - and symbolically subdue - the Right Hand Path’s dawning, obliterating sunlight into an emancipatory blackness. * “...black becomes white, white becomes black, the negative becomes positive, and vice versa.” With trans-temporal, sonic-linguistic contributions from the clew: Kornelia Remø Klokk &amp; Snorre Sjønøst Henriksen (Supporting Act), Oliver Smith (dmstfctn), Nick Koppenhagen and Joey Essex - as well as featuring audio from an instagram reel upload by Bisan Owda.&nbsp; <img width="6000" height="4000" width_o="6000" height_o="4000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/65ab97c0f142a7251ed58c7bbd957469e2e299dca5e663a8d7f10092f968334b/DSC03127.JPG" data-mid="222706726" 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data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/9708097f581f0dd55e59df95986cd537a4402b9deb21a9d6b598d38a7c750ee9/DSC03096.JPG" data-mid="222706715" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/9708097f581f0dd55e59df95986cd537a4402b9deb21a9d6b598d38a7c750ee9/DSC03096.JPG" /> <img width="6000" height="4000" width_o="6000" height_o="4000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/ba974740f04273b3eb18ad5d0595659dfc59a7d50a1663cc93c619d29cbc001c/DSC03099.JPG" data-mid="222708274" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/ba974740f04273b3eb18ad5d0595659dfc59a7d50a1663cc93c619d29cbc001c/DSC03099.JPG" /> <img width="6000" height="4000" width_o="6000" height_o="4000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/1649d6eb52b0c86018420844588a60a6d7a1499448af5d15e1d5bbc02a9a520a/DSC03085.JPG" data-mid="222708107" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/1649d6eb52b0c86018420844588a60a6d7a1499448af5d15e1d5bbc02a9a520a/DSC03085.JPG" /> <img width="6000" height="4000" width_o="6000" height_o="4000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/a7fbb39884b2f041a1cc7ae99769d6011b9c034d75e646f5d5474220d033c548/DSC03108.JPG" data-mid="222708276" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/a7fbb39884b2f041a1cc7ae99769d6011b9c034d75e646f5d5474220d033c548/DSC03108.JPG" /> <img width="6000" height="4000" width_o="6000" height_o="4000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/74ddddbd65963bf30be88bb3dd790e37723b842ab65e059526d758c624da889d/DSC03137.JPG" data-mid="222708408" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/74ddddbd65963bf30be88bb3dd790e37723b842ab65e059526d758c624da889d/DSC03137.JPG" /> <img width="4000" height="6000" width_o="4000" height_o="6000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/c75fe446e51e4f244e5c7f08b43b113c8688b90c501105f68c7f33c234eb6d27/DSC03134.JPG" data-mid="222708381" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/c75fe446e51e4f244e5c7f08b43b113c8688b90c501105f68c7f33c234eb6d27/DSC03134.JPG" /> Photography documentation by Diane Edwards For roughly the first hour of the performance, the Sun is red. <img width="6000" height="4000" width_o="6000" height_o="4000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/f6a851fe5e095e1ef735b6d6b5c8596b99c4e919f907a53a1df1536fabf1b92e/DSC03148.JPG" data-mid="222708665" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/f6a851fe5e095e1ef735b6d6b5c8596b99c4e919f907a53a1df1536fabf1b92e/DSC03148.JPG" /> <img width="6000" height="4000" width_o="6000" height_o="4000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/a0b76bb117e4baa43db7e2c4845b0f0b63f60fb8e552dfa2e0bdd93d04f1cb5d/DSC03159.JPG" data-mid="222708666" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/a0b76bb117e4baa43db7e2c4845b0f0b63f60fb8e552dfa2e0bdd93d04f1cb5d/DSC03159.JPG" />Photography documentation by Jordan Edge For roughly the second hour of the performance, the Sun is yellow. <img width="6000" height="4000" width_o="6000" height_o="4000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/7b54e76eba6ff10896daf2eef33d1bb0cda851f8e862a10275ec1c29aab59682/DSC03266.JPG" data-mid="222708721" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/7b54e76eba6ff10896daf2eef33d1bb0cda851f8e862a10275ec1c29aab59682/DSC03266.JPG" /> <img width="6000" height="4000" width_o="6000" height_o="4000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/ae273867d5fdff7e57bd3da995e830846cef85af7f0883aeb14f0034e80a5ca8/DSC03253.JPG" data-mid="222708670" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/ae273867d5fdff7e57bd3da995e830846cef85af7f0883aeb14f0034e80a5ca8/DSC03253.JPG" /> <img width="6000" height="4000" width_o="6000" height_o="4000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/10178fe9e7b1c578c64fd32ff4160ac09cea0c99dd8e3d0ffabe5f2006477b5c/DSC03259.JPG" data-mid="222708723" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/10178fe9e7b1c578c64fd32ff4160ac09cea0c99dd8e3d0ffabe5f2006477b5c/DSC03259.JPG" />Photography documentation by Jordan Edge For roughly the third hour of the performance, the Sun is white.&nbsp; <img width="4000" height="6000" width_o="4000" height_o="6000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/d0bdb4cf9a235f0c5321a36294e671135ac26d4cd3b1edc9940559a71fc49881/DSC03326.JPG" data-mid="222708739" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/d0bdb4cf9a235f0c5321a36294e671135ac26d4cd3b1edc9940559a71fc49881/DSC03326.JPG" />Photography documentation by Jordan Edge For roughly the final hour of the performance, the Sun is blue. https://beaxu.xyz/333 Mon, 19 Feb 2024 19:12:52 +0000 Bea Xu https://beaxu.xyz/333 .333 <img width="5570" height="3713" width_o="5570" height_o="3713" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/1b6cb979986ffe0a48396869b957b7b82201cd685e88466434d2708998bea0e3/_ES_2722.jpg" data-mid="222704294" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/1b6cb979986ffe0a48396869b957b7b82201cd685e88466434d2708998bea0e3/_ES_2722.jpg" />In a parallel timeline to that of EsƨƎ-0, the former world’s New Age death-cult is founded by terminally online followers of network spirituality. Unlimited to the geographical specifics of the Devil’s Canyon, EsƨƎ-0.333 is a totem to a hivemind nu-god made incarnate - with the inverse promise of a virtual deliverance, bestowed by the EsƨƎ-1.333 egregore-angel - made absolute on the eating of a blade of grass. <img width="1080" height="823" width_o="1080" height_o="823" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/6e94609af76952791237745df705c37983d1a6e80b70c8cef50f4d01107d71aa/2024-02-22-00.39.20.jpg" data-mid="205180721" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/6e94609af76952791237745df705c37983d1a6e80b70c8cef50f4d01107d71aa/2024-02-22-00.39.20.jpg" /><img width="1057" height="1280" width_o="1057" height_o="1280" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/19c36d23487632045adf1d96109e521015616a36b92499ff6b9f0c08c08d1073/2024-02-22-00.42.19.jpg" data-mid="205180747" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/19c36d23487632045adf1d96109e521015616a36b92499ff6b9f0c08c08d1073/2024-02-22-00.42.19.jpg" /> EsƨƎ-1.333 is a performance inspired by the figure of the girl online, the clear pill, Xiao Hong Shu, cuteness, virality and internet fandom. It includes an&nbsp;EsƨƎ-1 remix track produced by Oliver Smith.&nbsp; <img width="3840" height="5760" width_o="3840" height_o="5760" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/54b98c31e21c8a970941ea4c7aea0f5a40f26685533c927a8f50a9d32c07dae3/_ES_2672.jpg" data-mid="222704394" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/54b98c31e21c8a970941ea4c7aea0f5a40f26685533c927a8f50a9d32c07dae3/_ES_2672.jpg" /><img width="2929" height="4393" width_o="2929" height_o="4393" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/0a049158cbaddb0c1e4c0875b3d38ae2a7fb7e28d18ca6c666f553665fa4289e/_ES_2668.jpg" data-mid="222704395" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/0a049158cbaddb0c1e4c0875b3d38ae2a7fb7e28d18ca6c666f553665fa4289e/_ES_2668.jpg" /><img width="3749" height="5624" width_o="3749" height_o="5624" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/7edd8c4892bf3876db62f23b6c61e335a9bb9ff47893345dd4c18a38f6a65a9a/_ES_2683.jpg" data-mid="222704390" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/7edd8c4892bf3876db62f23b6c61e335a9bb9ff47893345dd4c18a38f6a65a9a/_ES_2683.jpg" />EsƨƎ-1.333, 2024: Performance photography by Calvin Scherer <img width="2850" height="3800" width_o="2850" height_o="3800" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/f107612988330eb0403c69275926d5276156f30d8667fbe833a15697a1230be1/163_Gossamer-Fog_In-Virto_Linked-out-Logged-in_PHOTO-CREDIT-M8R8S-STUDIO_HDR_JPEG-WEB-3800px-50-lossless.jpg" data-mid="222704523" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/f107612988330eb0403c69275926d5276156f30d8667fbe833a15697a1230be1/163_Gossamer-Fog_In-Virto_Linked-out-Logged-in_PHOTO-CREDIT-M8R8S-STUDIO_HDR_JPEG-WEB-3800px-50-lossless.jpg" /><img width="2850" height="3800" width_o="2850" height_o="3800" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/02c3577a700b2224a743f2162b3a7fad266ee0340c2abc262db7035514eff18e/194_Gossamer-Fog_In-Virto_Linked-out-Logged-in_PHOTO-CREDIT-M8R8S-STUDIO_HDR_JPEG-WEB-3800px-50-lossless.jpg" data-mid="222704525" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/02c3577a700b2224a743f2162b3a7fad266ee0340c2abc262db7035514eff18e/194_Gossamer-Fog_In-Virto_Linked-out-Logged-in_PHOTO-CREDIT-M8R8S-STUDIO_HDR_JPEG-WEB-3800px-50-lossless.jpg" /> <img width="2850" height="3800" width_o="2850" height_o="3800" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/e45cc9c328da1399521988c0b38e072e78b97213f547fbbdb5a852711bde4217/199_Gossamer-Fog_In-Virto_Linked-out-Logged-in_PHOTO-CREDIT-M8R8S-STUDIO_HDR_JPEG-WEB-3800px-50-lossless.jpg" data-mid="222704526" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/e45cc9c328da1399521988c0b38e072e78b97213f547fbbdb5a852711bde4217/199_Gossamer-Fog_In-Virto_Linked-out-Logged-in_PHOTO-CREDIT-M8R8S-STUDIO_HDR_JPEG-WEB-3800px-50-lossless.jpg" /> <img width="3800" height="2850" width_o="3800" height_o="2850" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/9417cd7121d096e88543eaa00e8ba5f63f684e9fe496fffe951350e183684dcb/414_Gossamer-Fog_In-Virto_Linked-out-Logged-in_PHOTO-CREDIT-M8R8S-STUDIO_HDR_JPEG-WEB-3800px-50-lossless.jpg" data-mid="222704514" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/9417cd7121d096e88543eaa00e8ba5f63f684e9fe496fffe951350e183684dcb/414_Gossamer-Fog_In-Virto_Linked-out-Logged-in_PHOTO-CREDIT-M8R8S-STUDIO_HDR_JPEG-WEB-3800px-50-lossless.jpg" /> EsƨƎ-0.333: performative installation documentation by M8R8S Studio.&nbsp; EsƨƎ-0.333, 2024: Foraged mammal skeleton, foraged vines, foraged grass, foraged twigs, found pottery shard, shower hose, wire, steel, human hair, wall paint, menstrual blood, yarn, crystal violet, acrylic bead, Pokemon energy card, Lain keyring, Evangelion brooch, foraged spider plant &amp;&amp; additional customised scissors from EsƨƎ-1.333 performance.&nbsp; <img width="3800" height="2850" width_o="3800" height_o="2850" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/2095368b394342ef61b55c6845f5f48917887c457a46fcdb8041380aac81877a/18_Gossamer-Fog_In-Virto_Linked-out-Logged-in_PHOTO-CREDIT-M8R8S-STUDIO_HDR-1-1_JPEG-WEB-3800px-50-lossless.jpg" data-mid="222704567" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/2095368b394342ef61b55c6845f5f48917887c457a46fcdb8041380aac81877a/18_Gossamer-Fog_In-Virto_Linked-out-Logged-in_PHOTO-CREDIT-M8R8S-STUDIO_HDR-1-1_JPEG-WEB-3800px-50-lossless.jpg" /> <img width="3800" height="2850" width_o="3800" height_o="2850" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/90f7ffe8e80c048b10745a6a91322be1514effcd20a1ce5c101e8140e2a56da7/23_Gossamer-Fog_In-Virto_Linked-out-Logged-in_PHOTO-CREDIT-M8R8S-STUDIO_HDR-1_JPEG-WEB-3800px-50-lossless.jpg" data-mid="222704568" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/90f7ffe8e80c048b10745a6a91322be1514effcd20a1ce5c101e8140e2a56da7/23_Gossamer-Fog_In-Virto_Linked-out-Logged-in_PHOTO-CREDIT-M8R8S-STUDIO_HDR-1_JPEG-WEB-3800px-50-lossless.jpg" /> <img width="3800" height="2850" width_o="3800" height_o="2850" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/380880724484aea79556909d7b296b6d34fc354648337c0fdaa82db2884d607b/38_Gossamer-Fog_In-Virto_Linked-out-Logged-in_PHOTO-CREDIT-M8R8S-STUDIO_HDR_JPEG-WEB-3800px-50-lossless.jpg" data-mid="222704569" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/380880724484aea79556909d7b296b6d34fc354648337c0fdaa82db2884d607b/38_Gossamer-Fog_In-Virto_Linked-out-Logged-in_PHOTO-CREDIT-M8R8S-STUDIO_HDR_JPEG-WEB-3800px-50-lossless.jpg" /> <img width="3800" height="2850" width_o="3800" height_o="2850" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/a5d331974b5c2d614098f01cf46a8132de93c8b40f85080a4de41761b7f27593/43_Gossamer-Fog_In-Virto_Linked-out-Logged-in_PHOTO-CREDIT-M8R8S-STUDIO_HDR_JPEG-WEB-3800px-50-lossless.jpg" data-mid="222704635" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/a5d331974b5c2d614098f01cf46a8132de93c8b40f85080a4de41761b7f27593/43_Gossamer-Fog_In-Virto_Linked-out-Logged-in_PHOTO-CREDIT-M8R8S-STUDIO_HDR_JPEG-WEB-3800px-50-lossless.jpg" /> <img width="3800" height="2850" width_o="3800" height_o="2850" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/3e938c538cb02f65235b944d986489e9ae7ab2d7d2c1a52cbdf2009757830deb/53_Gossamer-Fog_In-Virto_Linked-out-Logged-in_PHOTO-CREDIT-M8R8S-STUDIO_HDR_JPEG-WEB-3800px-50-lossless.jpg" data-mid="222704636" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/3e938c538cb02f65235b944d986489e9ae7ab2d7d2c1a52cbdf2009757830deb/53_Gossamer-Fog_In-Virto_Linked-out-Logged-in_PHOTO-CREDIT-M8R8S-STUDIO_HDR_JPEG-WEB-3800px-50-lossless.jpg" /> Calibrated for Linked Out: Logged In, a group show at in vitro, Gossamer Fog, curated by Nina Wong from February - March 2024, with a review on the show and EsƨƎ-0.333 written by Jamie Sutcliffe for Art Monthly, April 2024. https://beaxu.xyz/O Mon, 27 Nov 2023 01:28:17 +0000 Bea Xu https://beaxu.xyz/O O <img width="1456" height="816" width_o="1456" height_o="816" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/802dfe6ffc3d0c5d8d1e6f790f7b258269a4ab750aef8672e684253978327b4a/demoniccummings_Blood_plant_data_DNA_sequencing_fusion_code_pho_8340d874-92a5-4e7d-b614-a4a01b742f47.png" data-mid="197889416" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/802dfe6ffc3d0c5d8d1e6f790f7b258269a4ab750aef8672e684253978327b4a/demoniccummings_Blood_plant_data_DNA_sequencing_fusion_code_pho_8340d874-92a5-4e7d-b614-a4a01b742f47.png" /> An audiovisual ritual that communes with the imminent symbolic collapse &amp; content crises prophesied by AI risk forecasters in a realm of the more-than-human; of emptiness without despair; of faith in Bion’s ‘O’.&nbsp; <img width="1456" height="816" width_o="1456" height_o="816" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/c5f97d7f7a813c88ec39d995f6c81facf6ff7e209b4adfa06888250846598f8a/demoniccummings_Little_fluffy_white_dog_cute_precious_spirited__55d596fe-7fc7-468d-8265-34ef708d43c8.png" data-mid="197889731" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/c5f97d7f7a813c88ec39d995f6c81facf6ff7e209b4adfa06888250846598f8a/demoniccummings_Little_fluffy_white_dog_cute_precious_spirited__55d596fe-7fc7-468d-8265-34ef708d43c8.png" /> For Gemini dark moon I was invited by Ella Wang Olsson to livestream a performance related to digital culture and internet addiction - which I undertook as a collaboration with c0bweaver. A number of recurring symbols from a dream the previous summer had been evoked by reading Revolutionary Demonology for the first time, and I noticed how they associated and bled with a wider cosmology of images in the shared field of c0bweaver and I. I was simultaneously spooked by scaremongering AI risk forecasters prophesying a symbolic collapse and content crisis by 2024, and I wanted to seize the lunar moment to forge a new meta-language, maybe something that we’d find funny, which would still hold codified meaning in a human way. I ran the dream-synchronicity symbols through Midjourney (my first time collaborating with it as a triangulating force) and and went undercover in a DIY green suit to commune with my AI-mediated symbols - rambling a stream of consciousness and occasionally singing while c0bweaver live mixed the sonic component of the ritual. <img width="2000" height="1334" width_o="2000" height_o="1334" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/fd1a443e1f6c846c373b8d91ab955704cc5c2e2491fd31c7b285b9a445711aa7/_Q7A3572.jpg" data-mid="197889655" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/fd1a443e1f6c846c373b8d91ab955704cc5c2e2491fd31c7b285b9a445711aa7/_Q7A3572.jpg" /> <img width="2000" height="1334" width_o="2000" height_o="1334" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/ded11ae4ea4d788897d72d161c9f2474f3ab865ecad8b4acd6d78e5b32445f59/_Q7A3797.jpg" data-mid="197890216" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/ded11ae4ea4d788897d72d161c9f2474f3ab865ecad8b4acd6d78e5b32445f59/_Q7A3797.jpg" /> <img width="2000" height="1334" width_o="2000" height_o="1334" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/9a267be3aace45c3347b0f0de0167f728b59aaf733af63f830236ad8e804cf60/_Q7A3754.jpg" data-mid="197889660" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/9a267be3aace45c3347b0f0de0167f728b59aaf733af63f830236ad8e804cf60/_Q7A3754.jpg" /> The dream-symchronicity symbols as a PDF can be viewed here and the sonic component of the ritual can be streamed below:飞飞 · O | Bea Xu &amp; c0bweaver <img width="1334" height="2000" width_o="1334" height_o="2000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/af421384e9895a1b4b9f28dd8533903f23de18ebb683a455958dc28aff28bd11/_Q7A3593.jpg" data-mid="197890220" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/af421384e9895a1b4b9f28dd8533903f23de18ebb683a455958dc28aff28bd11/_Q7A3593.jpg" /> <img width="1334" height="2000" width_o="1334" height_o="2000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/33246a2b64ac3114f4be33a6dac88ea5daba808668d9800ed7b9a226eaaf9ea3/_Q7A3792.jpg" data-mid="197889663" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/33246a2b64ac3114f4be33a6dac88ea5daba808668d9800ed7b9a226eaaf9ea3/_Q7A3792.jpg" /> Commissioned for XIE3LLA SELECTS event at SYSTEM, Shanghai, 2023.&nbsp; It feels like an unfinished encounter, a portal that has merely opened, but full moon in Gemini, 6 months of integration following the ritual, is when this virtual cthonic intervention wants to be shared with the world. https://beaxu.xyz/33070506 Tue, 11 Jul 2023 12:04:56 +0000 Bea Xu https://beaxu.xyz/33070506 VORTEX <img width="7952" height="5304" width_o="7952" height_o="5304" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/ee11170aaf672f7ed35cc41971e339baf73e4eb0a0228fb2351471e51f7f9ae5/44_compressed.jpg" data-mid="184754839" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/ee11170aaf672f7ed35cc41971e339baf73e4eb0a0228fb2351471e51f7f9ae5/44_compressed.jpg" /> When Greenwich, London, was named Longitude 0°, it centred the heart of the British Empire within a system of standardised time. The instituted temporal shift of Daylight Savings twice a year is a glitch in the system of colonial time that can be seized on as an opportunity to reclaim it. Annually, BST becomes GMT after the autumn equinox; 02:00 becomes 01:00 for a second time in the twilight hours and a time vortex emerges. <img width="960" height="1280" width_o="960" height_o="1280" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/99974511d195213f7554fad6532014836caa283ab47d2063608f9a19b42baf74/2022-11-13-14.02.16.jpg" data-mid="187279750" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/960/i/99974511d195213f7554fad6532014836caa283ab47d2063608f9a19b42baf74/2022-11-13-14.02.16.jpg" /> <img width="960" height="1280" width_o="960" height_o="1280" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/3342d63d95eb1224d143abc912df8d4a0b5e94451a90141212bf0fb0e1d4c93f/2022-11-13-14.05.00.jpg" data-mid="187279052" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/960/i/3342d63d95eb1224d143abc912df8d4a0b5e94451a90141212bf0fb0e1d4c93f/2022-11-13-14.05.00.jpg" /> <img width="960" height="1280" width_o="960" height_o="1280" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/edec094f9b73912a8e9bbef67cd674eccffda4d4edb5b6e117c7754599d42e7e/2022-11-13-14.00.30.jpg" data-mid="187279082" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/960/i/edec094f9b73912a8e9bbef67cd674eccffda4d4edb5b6e117c7754599d42e7e/2022-11-13-14.00.30.jpg" /> <img width="960" height="1280" width_o="960" height_o="1280" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/7031451c1937f9af16404bc02ecd6d8fe33ce66ca68d4e7c0b668299cd334710/2022-11-13-14.01.11.jpg" data-mid="187279752" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/960/i/7031451c1937f9af16404bc02ecd6d8fe33ce66ca68d4e7c0b668299cd334710/2022-11-13-14.01.11.jpg" /> <img width="960" height="1280" width_o="960" height_o="1280" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/ef03ab2f3990d5de44f302a7f1e99f962512117001bdcb8b530f610353632656/2022-11-13-14.03.19.jpg" data-mid="187279737" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/960/i/ef03ab2f3990d5de44f302a7f1e99f962512117001bdcb8b530f610353632656/2022-11-13-14.03.19.jpg" /> ＶＯＲＴＥＸ ritual BTS documentation, October 2022 ＶＯＲＴＥＸ assembled four Chinese diasporic ritualists, with differing degrees of proximity to British soil, citizenship and statehood, on October 30, 2022 – at a site that extended the Greenwich Meridian Line beyond its entrenched 0° engraving and into a public green. Traditional Chinese Medicine identifies the liver meridian line as most active at the corresponding body clock window in time. Entering the vortex, the ritualists performed movements connecting to our liver meridians, coordinated using Taoist sorcery to pluralise and queer standardised time. The ritual was documented and later edited into a docu-fiction video artifact. It forms the core seed of intervention from which all other rituals emerge and spiral. All credit to: ＶＯＲＴＥＸ Creatrixes: Bea Xu &amp; Celeste Viv Ly ＶＯＲＴＥＸ Co-ritualists: Jenn Leung &amp; April Lin Co-Editing, Soundtracking &amp; Design:&nbsp;Val Leya You Colour Correcting, Co-Editing: Celeste Viv Ly Camera Op: Maya Erin &amp; Uchercie Taoist Sorcery Consultation: Tzeshi Lei&nbsp; ࿔&nbsp;-0.08629785045308501° Pericardiumᵛᵒʳᵗᵉˣ emerged from a phosphorescent time-entanglement as a spark of dark-fire formlessness in August 2023 at Longitude -0.08629785045308501° 19:30 BST as part of Fluid Cosmologies II at FORMA, London. <img width="6720" height="4480" width_o="6720" height_o="4480" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/e734427755cacb4526ef275e7171e3faf5b95c33748ed645217e997cf5aee42e/2E4A9570.JPG" data-mid="220431412" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/e734427755cacb4526ef275e7171e3faf5b95c33748ed645217e997cf5aee42e/2E4A9570.JPG" /> <img width="6720" height="4480" width_o="6720" height_o="4480" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/e370f7b83a92655267933212fa709e6434ecf3cfb3d58b468a8a76c152d0bbbb/2E4A9560.JPG" data-mid="220432194" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/e370f7b83a92655267933212fa709e6434ecf3cfb3d58b468a8a76c152d0bbbb/2E4A9560.JPG" /> <img width="6000" height="4000" width_o="6000" height_o="4000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/5cefe78863b9a5c8792d5af29aad2ac8d1d208a9612c5ccd0aa96ef97557fb99/IMG_9581.jpg" data-mid="220432178" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/5cefe78863b9a5c8792d5af29aad2ac8d1d208a9612c5ccd0aa96ef97557fb99/IMG_9581.jpg" /> Fluid Cosmologies II, photos courtesy of FORMA Focussing on the dark yin Pericardium meridian that connects heart to libido, I choreographed the latest intervention so that it spiralled out from the docu-fiction video of the original ＶＯＲＴＥＸ ritual. The plan was to have the flow emulate the shape of the Pericardium meridian energy mesh in the human body; spiral out and upstairs to Peverill Gardens on the roof of the FORMA building; before back into the indoor heart of the venue to conclude. <img width="6000" height="4000" width_o="6000" height_o="4000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/3302b978495c0cf2193c2f679ed2de27e72d84e4ec2bfcd51ca3e7180e21ca54/IMG_9606.JPG" data-mid="220432214" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/3302b978495c0cf2193c2f679ed2de27e72d84e4ec2bfcd51ca3e7180e21ca54/IMG_9606.JPG" /> <img width="6000" height="4000" width_o="6000" height_o="4000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/ff7899c36248fb74918e474706b5bb3dc60327e3c05ea7e4706ea1927402b2d3/IMG_9609.JPG" data-mid="220432215" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/ff7899c36248fb74918e474706b5bb3dc60327e3c05ea7e4706ea1927402b2d3/IMG_9609.JPG" /> <img width="6000" height="4000" width_o="6000" height_o="4000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/f1ea813d54ab8b039018db794e5cf196a9599433e30bd9c2b460e9d0d8d660a9/IMG_9605.JPG" data-mid="220431963" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/f1ea813d54ab8b039018db794e5cf196a9599433e30bd9c2b460e9d0d8d660a9/IMG_9605.JPG" /> <img width="6000" height="4000" width_o="6000" height_o="4000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/491e208bec58591d80fbfa942332ccb54c8868ff92c842d5a9f75996dd67becb/IMG_9615.JPG" data-mid="220432016" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/491e208bec58591d80fbfa942332ccb54c8868ff92c842d5a9f75996dd67becb/IMG_9615.JPG" /> Fluid Cosmologies II, photos courtesy of FORMAHowever, a rain warning on the day of the performance forced us to panic install the ‘pericardium mesh’ on the walls of the FORMA interior rather than Peverill Gardens, connecting all gathered audience co-ritualists in the beating heart heat of the UV drenched main space instead. <img width="720" height="958" width_o="720" height_o="958" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/fdd8ad25c78227b999da09111e3ce1ad6e40bb5c82f71a5c9394932133e834f3/photo_2023-09-10-00.27.42.jpeg" data-mid="220432028" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/720/i/fdd8ad25c78227b999da09111e3ce1ad6e40bb5c82f71a5c9394932133e834f3/photo_2023-09-10-00.27.42.jpeg" /> <img width="960" height="1280" width_o="960" height_o="1280" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/be034d515e26a02558fd27bbd01204710375b276804858ffa117018ae3d9fb37/photo_2023-09-10-00.27.55.jpeg" data-mid="220432029" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/960/i/be034d515e26a02558fd27bbd01204710375b276804858ffa117018ae3d9fb37/photo_2023-09-10-00.27.55.jpeg" /> <img width="960" height="1280" width_o="960" height_o="1280" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/5c5038b325abfa2073a7d4485180712eef7e3dc64f82284ed41bdc2f00163707/photo_2023-09-10-00.28.01.jpeg" data-mid="220432050" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/960/i/5c5038b325abfa2073a7d4485180712eef7e3dc64f82284ed41bdc2f00163707/photo_2023-09-10-00.28.01.jpeg" /> Assisted by original ＶＯＲＴＥＸ ritualist Jenn Leung, a performative lecture about our protocol was followed by a heart-based creative gratitude exercise for the audience co-ritualists to contribute to the physical scenographic mesh, and some simultaneous Qigong for the Pericardium meridian to finish. The results were more intimate and gooey than any of us expected. <img width="6000" height="4000" width_o="6000" height_o="4000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/7dde9f2c5ce024e4cb9d812166803b7bfebfffe83f4797a0d8d0e3dd7e41099d/IMG_9636.JPG" data-mid="220432018" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/7dde9f2c5ce024e4cb9d812166803b7bfebfffe83f4797a0d8d0e3dd7e41099d/IMG_9636.JPG" /> <img width="6000" height="4000" width_o="6000" height_o="4000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/82549617600d3b9383128abd56d6ffffce4a1adf2f94f09ad6a265bf60b4b059/IMG_9643.JPG" data-mid="220432021" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/82549617600d3b9383128abd56d6ffffce4a1adf2f94f09ad6a265bf60b4b059/IMG_9643.JPG" /> <img width="6000" height="4000" width_o="6000" height_o="4000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/bd789772819f69fbfe399c1bbc0be994af0e65a81f3bb8fe5abec5bdbb05a3a9/IMG_9670.JPG" data-mid="220432023" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/bd789772819f69fbfe399c1bbc0be994af0e65a81f3bb8fe5abec5bdbb05a3a9/IMG_9670.JPG" /> <img width="4000" height="3000" width_o="4000" height_o="3000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/cd26ab8dbfaa968bddb0e6872aeffd6c1fe084ce2e6cc867cbf9c1eb57d36d02/20230831_203649.jpg" data-mid="220432208" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/cd26ab8dbfaa968bddb0e6872aeffd6c1fe084ce2e6cc867cbf9c1eb57d36d02/20230831_203649.jpg" /> <img width="6000" height="4000" width_o="6000" height_o="4000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/7eee9a58c8e32932636d1146ddd9bbea9e02dac5a59fe1e3fe95255140df36ab/IMG_9662.JPG" data-mid="220432022" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/7eee9a58c8e32932636d1146ddd9bbea9e02dac5a59fe1e3fe95255140df36ab/IMG_9662.JPG" /> Fluid Cosmologies II, photos courtesy of FORMA࿔&nbsp;-14.008889° <img width="4160" height="6240" width_o="4160" height_o="6240" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/5b4cf4163be82ad496c69e71622221f1c9e5e6813eae9028303709ea614eee16/IMG_4961.jpg" data-mid="187266269" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/5b4cf4163be82ad496c69e71622221f1c9e5e6813eae9028303709ea614eee16/IMG_4961.jpg" /> Kidneyᵛᵒʳᵗᵉˣ metastasized the&nbsp;ＶＯＲＴＥＸ act of temporal reclamation into the providence of the kidney meridian. Earlier, in July 2023, this ritual took place at LungA Festival ~18:00 GMT, Longitude -14.008889° (Seyðisfjörður), constituting another ~day~glo bubble released by the ＶＯＲＴＥＸ intervention. Unfurling in the chilling, dark yin waters of a subpolar fjord, it tested the Will of its creatrix in the face of 11 of their deepest, most annihilating fears - while submerged in the wet unknown. <img width="6240" height="4160" width_o="6240" height_o="4160" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/1e6cbb9c13a4716b96946d6d2d057a32b68d62ffae0a68a67d68b1f31ca673a5/IMG_4975.jpg" data-mid="187266084" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/1e6cbb9c13a4716b96946d6d2d057a32b68d62ffae0a68a67d68b1f31ca673a5/IMG_4975.jpg" /> <img width="6240" height="4160" width_o="6240" height_o="4160" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/6430c13e2e44009f1c954b1d208491a39efb86c4cc259684d4cd25d1bf3824e2/IMG_4982.jpg" data-mid="187266348" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/6430c13e2e44009f1c954b1d208491a39efb86c4cc259684d4cd25d1bf3824e2/IMG_4982.jpg" /> <img width="6240" height="4160" width_o="6240" height_o="4160" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/d0beefe160aba720c24d9e81b19ac388f97a4ce173d84816aadb4a9047ac9a5b/IMG_4993.jpg" data-mid="187266378" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/d0beefe160aba720c24d9e81b19ac388f97a4ce173d84816aadb4a9047ac9a5b/IMG_4993.jpg" /> The 11 fear-charms worn, carried and held in(to) Fjarðará lake: <img width="960" height="1280" width_o="960" height_o="1280" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/be8a3133c7f2113d8e633814f61fb8928c2db7d8d73c4a78fabff443a50b6939/photo_2023-07-11-16.41.42.jpeg" data-mid="184783057" border="0" alt="Cancellation" data-caption="Cancellation" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/960/i/be8a3133c7f2113d8e633814f61fb8928c2db7d8d73c4a78fabff443a50b6939/photo_2023-07-11-16.41.42.jpeg" /> <img width="960" height="1280" width_o="960" height_o="1280" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/8c174afddcc30c31f9927ebdda100b36456cae1bfaaf445c283ffae539b6d41a/photo_2023-07-11-16.41.48.jpeg" data-mid="184783058" border="0" alt="Cosmic persecution" data-caption="Cosmic persecution" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/960/i/8c174afddcc30c31f9927ebdda100b36456cae1bfaaf445c283ffae539b6d41a/photo_2023-07-11-16.41.48.jpeg" /> <img width="960" height="1280" width_o="960" height_o="1280" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/f582cec11550a252be976cdb26ab7cb8a3e21e42eb39b78d85e2f49a20cad5f3/photo_2023-07-11-16.42.17.jpeg" data-mid="184783069" border="0" alt="Disenchantment" data-caption="Disenchantment" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/960/i/f582cec11550a252be976cdb26ab7cb8a3e21e42eb39b78d85e2f49a20cad5f3/photo_2023-07-11-16.42.17.jpeg" /> <img width="960" height="1280" width_o="960" height_o="1280" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/58d0d3c5f019e19ecff57019bb1f64e51f6feafc2351a2fae3bfb203f0521380/photo_2023-07-11-16.41.50.jpeg" data-mid="184783059" border="0" alt="Losing momentum" data-caption="Losing momentum" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/960/i/58d0d3c5f019e19ecff57019bb1f64e51f6feafc2351a2fae3bfb203f0521380/photo_2023-07-11-16.41.50.jpeg" /> <img width="960" height="1280" width_o="960" height_o="1280" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/0f100479dbd254fe6ace4ee992f113d5f8a13f10b32298194cdffe1d9e9c5eb9/photo_2023-07-11-16.41.56.jpeg" data-mid="184783061" border="0" alt="Losing loved ones" data-caption="Losing loved ones" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/960/i/0f100479dbd254fe6ace4ee992f113d5f8a13f10b32298194cdffe1d9e9c5eb9/photo_2023-07-11-16.41.56.jpeg" /> <img width="960" height="1280" width_o="960" height_o="1280" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/2c36445ed7aae0c01d88621ef6d3f7959ccdc72b0f9f23a7895cf6c61ef4604e/photo_2023-07-11-16.42.00.jpeg" data-mid="184783062" border="0" alt="Debilitating illness" data-caption="Debilitating illness" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/960/i/2c36445ed7aae0c01d88621ef6d3f7959ccdc72b0f9f23a7895cf6c61ef4604e/photo_2023-07-11-16.42.00.jpeg" /> <img width="960" height="1280" width_o="960" height_o="1280" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/01650877883793a4908c44deadf39b07f5f9843c87e0e29269a7e80424718e82/photo_2023-07-11-16.42.02.jpeg" data-mid="184783063" border="0" alt="Being targeted by bigots" data-caption="Being targeted by bigots" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/960/i/01650877883793a4908c44deadf39b07f5f9843c87e0e29269a7e80424718e82/photo_2023-07-11-16.42.02.jpeg" /> <img width="960" height="1280" width_o="960" height_o="1280" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/46785ec903b8c0e117fc775da7611f920da9b5de4b42fc45b49f2eef7da20f21/photo_2023-07-11-16.42.05.jpeg" data-mid="184783064" border="0" alt="Apocalypse" data-caption="Apocalypse" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/960/i/46785ec903b8c0e117fc775da7611f920da9b5de4b42fc45b49f2eef7da20f21/photo_2023-07-11-16.42.05.jpeg" /> <img width="960" height="1280" width_o="960" height_o="1280" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/f551cb3f8da58e9354de1bc1fa739705a672717e1657aa98ac4a7abd32098477/photo_2023-07-11-16.42.08.jpeg" data-mid="184783065" border="0" alt="Being resurrected by transhumanist overlords and being forced to work eternally as a digital serf " data-caption="Being resurrected by transhumanist overlords and being forced to work eternally as a digital serf " src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/960/i/f551cb3f8da58e9354de1bc1fa739705a672717e1657aa98ac4a7abd32098477/photo_2023-07-11-16.42.08.jpeg" /> <img width="960" height="1280" width_o="960" height_o="1280" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/742df86fc1accfca5a38288e92139c584dfa7abfb9da156315cf9eaae61d8e46/photo_2023-07-11-16.42.11.jpeg" data-mid="184783067" border="0" alt="Unfulfilled potential" data-caption="Unfulfilled potential" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/960/i/742df86fc1accfca5a38288e92139c584dfa7abfb9da156315cf9eaae61d8e46/photo_2023-07-11-16.42.11.jpeg" /> <img width="960" height="1280" width_o="960" height_o="1280" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/25ad4f56b4ce8a502e9043fc2eb6eb87d144e545faa3890819ea4ae1ce9f8fa9/photo_2023-07-11-16.42.14.jpeg" data-mid="184783068" border="0" alt="Physical disfigurement" data-caption="Physical disfigurement" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/960/i/25ad4f56b4ce8a502e9043fc2eb6eb87d144e545faa3890819ea4ae1ce9f8fa9/photo_2023-07-11-16.42.14.jpeg" /> During LungA 2023, the original ＶＯＲＴＥＸ intervention was screening at Tækniminjasafn Austurlands (Technical Museum of East Iceland) as part of Tender Raptures: let them guide you - alongside works by Miles Greenburgh, Venus Jasper and Ra Tack.&nbsp; <img width="4160" height="6240" width_o="4160" height_o="6240" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/6b41bb12fe06327d621be08041bc31deee96b702533eb074a1f3f70c7e712780/IMG_6026.jpg" data-mid="187266615" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/6b41bb12fe06327d621be08041bc31deee96b702533eb074a1f3f70c7e712780/IMG_6026.jpg" /> <img width="4160" height="6240" width_o="4160" height_o="6240" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/c8d49f4ac1d0c92dae24e61f2cb94331b66abf57db2a2e36632aec8672b905e6/IMG_6020.jpg" data-mid="187266611" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/c8d49f4ac1d0c92dae24e61f2cb94331b66abf57db2a2e36632aec8672b905e6/IMG_6020.jpg" /> <img width="4160" height="6240" width_o="4160" height_o="6240" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/759f0b464b8ba1d16ae69b432028f1a6ca7431f2c1cb8ba3fe52fe1bba75421a/IMG_6027.jpg" data-mid="187266801" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/759f0b464b8ba1d16ae69b432028f1a6ca7431f2c1cb8ba3fe52fe1bba75421a/IMG_6027.jpg" /> ࿔&nbsp;9.18951° As part of Milan Art Week 2023, Triple Burnerᵛᵒʳᵗᵉˣ was performed alongside a premiere screening of&nbsp;ＶＯＲＴＥＸ at&nbsp;*•.¸𝐹𝒶𝑒𝓇𝒾𝑒 𝑅𝒶𝓂𝓅𝒶𝑔𝑒¸.•*. Curated by Yicong Song at Love Bar, Milan - the ritual was the first in a showcase of caring and healing performative acts from East &amp; South East Asian artists based in London: alongside OT, Bones Tan Jones and CHIYU.&nbsp;&nbsp; <img width="3945" height="5918" width_o="3945" height_o="5918" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/11eef62d464b2c762a99a658741545264c86094c3a3a836ee2a4d10825d8af34/11.jpg" data-mid="220416045" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/11eef62d464b2c762a99a658741545264c86094c3a3a836ee2a4d10825d8af34/11.jpg" /> <img width="5304" height="7426" width_o="5304" height_o="7426" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/fb2d5288fc16cc939c36e73260ee917e459dfcfafd04d30e43c07950f1faf253/01.jpg" data-mid="187267658" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/fb2d5288fc16cc939c36e73260ee917e459dfcfafd04d30e43c07950f1faf253/01.jpg" /> <img width="854" height="1280" width_o="854" height_o="1280" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/e30112395e19e47ed4a2a56491fdbb05f09dc5196190de2f52eaf77d82af2a41/IMG_20230503_234310_086.jpg" data-mid="222763528" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/854/i/e30112395e19e47ed4a2a56491fdbb05f09dc5196190de2f52eaf77d82af2a41/IMG_20230503_234310_086.jpg" /> <img width="4306" height="5740" width_o="4306" height_o="5740" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/d8474e17d05be8db6f4cc0e9616967fc1cac7a9e2920fdecfe39b974b4f478e3/04.jpg" data-mid="220416068" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/d8474e17d05be8db6f4cc0e9616967fc1cac7a9e2920fdecfe39b974b4f478e3/04.jpg" /> <img width="4000" height="6000" width_o="4000" height_o="6000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/3b031ce1b2b8a37a07f7eea7c290a18fc6bf034da42347ec9c4102da9efe5964/35.jpg" data-mid="187277079" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/3b031ce1b2b8a37a07f7eea7c290a18fc6bf034da42347ec9c4102da9efe5964/35.jpg" /> Taking place in April at 22:00 CEST in Longitude 9.18951° Milan, the Triple Burnerᵛᵒʳᵗᵉˣ was the first spiral that bloomed and glowed from a glitched documentation premiere of the original ＶＯＲＴＥＸ intervention, igniting and vaporising in yang crucibles of fire, spirit and water – and metabolising in the bodies of the creatrix and attendant ritualists altogether. <img width="7952" height="5304" width_o="7952" height_o="5304" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/ee11170aaf672f7ed35cc41971e339baf73e4eb0a0228fb2351471e51f7f9ae5/44_compressed.jpg" data-mid="184754839" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/ee11170aaf672f7ed35cc41971e339baf73e4eb0a0228fb2351471e51f7f9ae5/44_compressed.jpg" /> <img width="1280" height="854" width_o="1280" height_o="854" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/3e92f2473a6f43e536614f06db21a5f90d707756550cd69179974e8cd7fa0ae6/IMG_20230503_234317_407.jpg" data-mid="222763530" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/3e92f2473a6f43e536614f06db21a5f90d707756550cd69179974e8cd7fa0ae6/IMG_20230503_234317_407.jpg" /> <img width="4000" height="6000" width_o="4000" height_o="6000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/e8738e64897369c4030bf571ef0f33b2fa535b8ae4b9f61aa63de8123892bd63/36.jpg" data-mid="187277801" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/e8738e64897369c4030bf571ef0f33b2fa535b8ae4b9f61aa63de8123892bd63/36.jpg" /> <img width="4000" height="6000" width_o="4000" height_o="6000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/0560494ab88db83e19ed1a0ac64d869ed5c073c5fca7e940a2f3b81408582f23/37.jpg" data-mid="187278477" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/0560494ab88db83e19ed1a0ac64d869ed5c073c5fca7e940a2f3b81408582f23/37.jpg" /> <img width="4000" height="5600" width_o="4000" height_o="5600" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/ffe6c98b4f2f6eda246d516ba884873aad2731775db6b81db0f3738f13f3d70d/27.jpg" data-mid="220416226" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/ffe6c98b4f2f6eda246d516ba884873aad2731775db6b81db0f3738f13f3d70d/27.jpg" /> <img width="4000" height="6000" width_o="4000" height_o="6000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/f459fc89beace476adf1f091968fbe6713684f85c868d31ac45fe889844c874e/22.jpg" data-mid="220411841" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/f459fc89beace476adf1f091968fbe6713684f85c868d31ac45fe889844c874e/22.jpg" /> <img width="5304" height="7952" width_o="5304" height_o="7952" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/f111eb657068664a8d68995d58e8f4405809e47b0a9a2bebb9f552beac12419e/30.jpg" data-mid="220414816" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/f111eb657068664a8d68995d58e8f4405809e47b0a9a2bebb9f552beac12419e/30.jpg" /> <img width="3930" height="5895" width_o="3930" height_o="5895" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/e95e779fa0089e924755639aed239e58e2bbb59eb2cd4726e0cc518809fd0a52/26.jpg" data-mid="220416222" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/e95e779fa0089e924755639aed239e58e2bbb59eb2cd4726e0cc518809fd0a52/26.jpg" /> ࿔ Like many of my works, ＶＯＲＴＥＸ is iterative, site- and temporal-specific. Each movement grows a new spiral, with properties and shapes of its own. Each spiral is a new rhizome of the original timehack ritual. No subsequent iteration is ever the same.&nbsp; ࿔ <img width="4160" height="6240" width_o="4160" height_o="6240" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/ca6e17c5cbeefbde3de1d3476c501a7a995f45d0181c6e13d64df2aa8ade2a8c/IMG_5086.jpg" data-mid="187278944" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/ca6e17c5cbeefbde3de1d3476c501a7a995f45d0181c6e13d64df2aa8ade2a8c/IMG_5086.jpg" /> https://beaxu.xyz/The-Treaty-of-Finsbury-Park-2025 Sun, 25 Dec 2022 20:47:16 +0000 Bea Xu https://beaxu.xyz/The-Treaty-of-Finsbury-Park-2025 The Treaty of Finsbury Park 2025&nbsp; <img width="798" height="800" width_o="798" height_o="800" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/3aaedba3bc77d797f24a6c556a9a3a13e1697b6407ea9fdfc6828d937487e296/Larp.jpeg" data-mid="164740482" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/798/i/3aaedba3bc77d797f24a6c556a9a3a13e1697b6407ea9fdfc6828d937487e296/Larp.jpeg" /> <img width="1120" height="1120" width_o="1120" height_o="1120" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/3fc807bb750fdb75d93334d75d4959cf00b2e8e5d780058869c72f2666159c12/FT6UKGbXwAEuVfc.jpg" data-mid="164740486" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/3fc807bb750fdb75d93334d75d4959cf00b2e8e5d780058869c72f2666159c12/FT6UKGbXwAEuVfc.jpg" /> The Treaty of Finsbury Park 2025 is a multi-year, more-than-human LARP series I designed and facilitated as a contributing artist from 2021 to 2023 with Ruth Catlow and Max Dovey for Furtherfield Gallery. It depicts the story of the dawning of interspecies democracy and an era of equal rights for all living beings, where all species come together to organise and shape the environments and cultures they inhabit - in Finsbury Park, London, and urban green spaces across the UK, the world, and beyond.&nbsp; <img width="4928" height="6560" width_o="4928" height_o="6560" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/3686fc0d1cab51cc436638d06fa64598817ed11f30711c2b845263dc8b1bd457/IMG20220616155513.jpg" data-mid="164741084" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/3686fc0d1cab51cc436638d06fa64598817ed11f30711c2b845263dc8b1bd457/IMG20220616155513.jpg" /> <img width="655" height="813" width_o="655" height_o="813" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/b18d399f5574b7e34cc6f2108378feb2b2491cdcf8092aafdea4d3cfe425d93b/1_2_of_the_delegates_at_rehearsal_02.06.2022_.png" data-mid="220418085" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/655/i/b18d399f5574b7e34cc6f2108378feb2b2491cdcf8092aafdea4d3cfe425d93b/1_2_of_the_delegates_at_rehearsal_02.06.2022_.png" /> The Interspecies Assemblies, 2022 Following some online and offline tester events in 2022, the first and second parts of the Treaty: The Interspecies Assembles &amp; Vote consisted in rounds of online LARPs where humans played as one of seven mentor species (a tree, a bee, a goose, grass, a squirrel, a stag beetle and a dog) on Zoom. The very first of these assembles took place at the IAM Weekend 2021 Festival - Planet Earth edition, which I hosted with Ruth Catlow (video here). <img width="4096" height="2160" width_o="4096" height_o="2160" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/2aea5a279d7eb05f1bb7e204333e47857c917218d7c6fc28775ac2a95409ad5d/53443157384_4875f99762_o.jpg" data-mid="220418123" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/2aea5a279d7eb05f1bb7e204333e47857c917218d7c6fc28775ac2a95409ad5d/53443157384_4875f99762_o.jpg" /> <img width="4096" height="2160" width_o="4096" height_o="2160" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/18d3af3201837dd7878915f21d930e0059a0cef4392c3f4ae4d25e25fe5049a7/53451420571_3ea7b75248_o.jpg" data-mid="220418138" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/18d3af3201837dd7878915f21d930e0059a0cef4392c3f4ae4d25e25fe5049a7/53451420571_3ea7b75248_o.jpg" /> <img width="4096" height="2160" width_o="4096" height_o="2160" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/2036c385481c94fca800f8af10cde98bf2369aa3a12cf129d757d39949f92922/53442976058_a879095f59_o.jpg" data-mid="220418115" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/2036c385481c94fca800f8af10cde98bf2369aa3a12cf129d757d39949f92922/53442976058_a879095f59_o.jpg" /> <img width="4096" height="2160" width_o="4096" height_o="2160" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/4c560897a9cf12d51428b96b23f6db72b35c035633a1f3745e9f63a943eed816/53442974923_fcf93451ca_o.jpg" data-mid="220418110" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/4c560897a9cf12d51428b96b23f6db72b35c035633a1f3745e9f63a943eed816/53442974923_fcf93451ca_o.jpg" /> <img width="3063" height="1608" width_o="3063" height_o="1608" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/3cadf48682ef7c1dbf1de247eba4c53713ad0d24d26339fc36a6a05906f6a294/53442974708_db7a6f5942_o.jpg" data-mid="220418108" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/3cadf48682ef7c1dbf1de247eba4c53713ad0d24d26339fc36a6a05906f6a294/53442974708_db7a6f5942_o.jpg" /> <img width="3522" height="1858" width_o="3522" height_o="1858" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/e4ef3b203fa227d023bedc79c497b22f5b5e16835d545d9b0d3bf96544c3a556/53442839186_f72daec354_o.jpg" data-mid="220418107" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/e4ef3b203fa227d023bedc79c497b22f5b5e16835d545d9b0d3bf96544c3a556/53442839186_f72daec354_o.jpg" /> <img width="4096" height="2160" width_o="4096" height_o="2160" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/5538903d9c28a38689cba189c74a5b617b90ba8077719c03c08fd003570262fc/53442975078_b811018ff4_o.jpg" data-mid="220418113" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/5538903d9c28a38689cba189c74a5b617b90ba8077719c03c08fd003570262fc/53442975078_b811018ff4_o.jpg" /> <img width="4096" height="2160" width_o="4096" height_o="2160" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/e24a4ffda8061c7d63cb6cedd6ae9bce93cf5234f63679ed6bab3ce4fd3d3be6/53442838216_aa6d4b2cf7_o.jpg" data-mid="220418103" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/e24a4ffda8061c7d63cb6cedd6ae9bce93cf5234f63679ed6bab3ce4fd3d3be6/53442838216_aa6d4b2cf7_o.jpg" /> <img width="3063" height="1769" width_o="3063" height_o="1769" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/b0a493968e408a05aa90522cb34d83ecaaf09522c19b644d8440395b46623677/53445334939_c51935b05c_o.png" data-mid="220418132" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/b0a493968e408a05aa90522cb34d83ecaaf09522c19b644d8440395b46623677/53445334939_c51935b05c_o.png" /> The Interspecies Festival, 2023 During part 3: The Interspecies Festival and Treat of Finsbury Park, in-person rounds of LARPing took place in Finsbury Park in summer 2023 where voted-for festival activities (a multisensory tour of the Old Forest with an audio track; a meditative resting session in the New Forest; a game of ‘Pass the Poo Parcel’) were enjoyed by players new and old alongside protest songs - and presided over by my character Dry the London Plane tree, Scirius the squirrel and Chewy the dog. <img width="2975" height="2975" width_o="2975" height_o="2975" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/04bd4a74b6c71c03efc2f000cfba1464dc882c4c576b123c4b3f77f9ee486996/53442816446_8ee9b50053_o.jpg" data-mid="220418095" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/04bd4a74b6c71c03efc2f000cfba1464dc882c4c576b123c4b3f77f9ee486996/53442816446_8ee9b50053_o.jpg" /> <img width="3000" height="3000" width_o="3000" height_o="3000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/252d1574741e45bc835ff2976c318852d1bd839af4d5017dfbbed5ef7b1c5e5e/53442816401_7336627a7e_o.jpg" data-mid="220418091" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/252d1574741e45bc835ff2976c318852d1bd839af4d5017dfbbed5ef7b1c5e5e/53442816401_7336627a7e_o.jpg" /> Edible Pass-the-Poo-Parcel samples, 2023&nbsp; In September 2024, The Treaty Signing Events took place in Finsbury Park - with sample experiences from the Festival and Tracy Kiryango’s docu-fiction film The Interspecies Festival of Finsbury Park 2023 as part of an exhibition at Furtherfield Gallery. <img width="1080" height="1080" width_o="1080" height_o="1080" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/5429efc9020185daaa3049aa08b14fc97f858a0998ec497c2a7b7aabd6fb6edd/53443226775_94bdf583d2_o.jpg" data-mid="220418125" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/5429efc9020185daaa3049aa08b14fc97f858a0998ec497c2a7b7aabd6fb6edd/53443226775_94bdf583d2_o.jpg" /> Please read this, this and this for more info about the proejct! https://beaxu.xyz/Es Sun, 25 Dec 2022 20:36:31 +0000 Bea Xu https://beaxu.xyz/Es EsƨƎ <img width="2592" height="1728" width_o="2592" height_o="1728" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/700caf94503c00d872101994eb29189f254a0f915a82505df01678fd71417a60/IMG_9418.JPG" data-mid="164731462" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/700caf94503c00d872101994eb29189f254a0f915a82505df01678fd71417a60/IMG_9418.JPG" /> In summer 2022, EsƨƎ-1 and EsƨƎ-0 were created while I was on residency with OUTSIDEININSIDEOUTINSIDEOUTOUTSIDEIN collective in and out of the Saxony Switzerland National Park in Germany.&nbsp; EsƨƎ-0 was primarily constructed out of a partial, unidentified mammalian skeleton I had found while searching for a water source adjacent to the burnt forests ravaged by wildfires on the Czech-German border that season. Finding the carcass in the spot where the dried up stream should have been, I gathered and carried the bones with me for the remainder of our wildcamping pilgrimage up to Torhaus Wehlen, and developed a post-anthropocentric universe in which they had become a sacred relic to a spiritually-bypassed death cult.&nbsp; <img width="2592" height="1728" width_o="2592" height_o="1728" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/3d148d5bca4f75bbe41c90013f69dffa44691b8b99b7ba693ada33500dcadb8b/IMG_9251.JPG" data-mid="164734951" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/3d148d5bca4f75bbe41c90013f69dffa44691b8b99b7ba693ada33500dcadb8b/IMG_9251.JPG" /> <img width="2592" height="1728" width_o="2592" height_o="1728" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/ba308a22e2ab19750089f906eed0d1b6b58e5d824755ec4cc8955871c393b8cc/IMG_9258.JPG" data-mid="164735026" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/ba308a22e2ab19750089f906eed0d1b6b58e5d824755ec4cc8955871c393b8cc/IMG_9258.JPG" /> <img width="2592" height="1728" width_o="2592" height_o="1728" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/073b46783f2c71bdff402f7686dca1359be62887438e3d5770cba0fe8a06b941/IMG_9256.JPG" data-mid="164734985" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/073b46783f2c71bdff402f7686dca1359be62887438e3d5770cba0fe8a06b941/IMG_9256.JPG" /> Around 8 years prior, I was morbidly fascinated &amp; horrified by the news that anthrax was re-emerging from Siberian permafrost as generations’ old corpses were broaching the Earth’s surface and thawing out with rising temperatures; infecting reindeer herds on the tundra. In this present fiction, I imagined a stray herd of Siberian deer migrating from Russia, across central Europe and into East Germany (much as I had crossed the border myself with its remains) infecting more and more of the continent with this reincarnated anthrax, until an extremist faction of spiritual evolutionists had decided, in their delusion, to revere a crop of infected grass - and the carcass splayed on top of it - to fulfil their own deliverance to the ‘next realm’.&nbsp;I researched the toxic symbiosis anthrax cultivates with grass; the perverse kind of nurture that a pathogenic bacterium inoculates its transmission vessel with to make that vegetation grow tall (up to 45% more) and luscious (not to mention drought-tolerant) above the uncontaminated surrounding crops. ...All the better to attract unwitting hosts with. <img width="2592" height="1728" width_o="2592" height_o="1728" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/3973539e2811d2091b13b093fc3827903442b76fe5ee051e4cc26ee310caddb2/IMG_9261.JPG" data-mid="164735009" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/3973539e2811d2091b13b093fc3827903442b76fe5ee051e4cc26ee310caddb2/IMG_9261.JPG" /> <img width="2592" height="1728" width_o="2592" height_o="1728" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/08f152d6ebbb7c6860be265ac999e60006d2e2988df7a88c60e8665e407f2875/IMG_9257.JPG" data-mid="164734986" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/08f152d6ebbb7c6860be265ac999e60006d2e2988df7a88c60e8665e407f2875/IMG_9257.JPG" /> The US Centre for Disease Control and Prevention designates B. anthracis ‘Tier 1’ in its Division of Select Agents and Toxins as it presents itself as a bioweapon capable of wreaking the greatest amount of megadeath and economic, infrastructural and public confidence destruction when instrumentalised by humans.&nbsp;I saw it as a potent ecogothic vehicle to process my own fears around the accelerationism of post-truth-ism mixed with new age ideology in a literal climate of devastation - as well as a spicier grappling with my own latent narcissism and tendency towards spiritual zealotry.&nbsp; In collaboration with Markéta Skalková, I produced&nbsp;EsƨƎ-1: a walking meditation track, voiced by the leader of this death cult, for&nbsp;̶m̶̶y̶̶ ̶̶f̶̶o̶̶l̶̶l̶̶o̶̶w̶̶e̶̶r̶̶s̶ audience members and quasi-LARPers to immerse themselves in while traversing the ‘Devil’s Canyon’ - a breathtakingly gorgeous natural landmark - as they made their way up to the site where&nbsp;EsƨƎ-0 waited for them:&nbsp; 飞飞 · EsƨƎ-1 | Bea Xu &amp; Markéta Skalková <img width="2592" height="1728" width_o="2592" height_o="1728" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/916e9585d6433d83e260aa701ff5ef8050af908c002596b28de6ed73c7d909d1/IMG_9425.JPG" data-mid="164735294" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/916e9585d6433d83e260aa701ff5ef8050af908c002596b28de6ed73c7d909d1/IMG_9425.JPG" /> <img width="2592" height="1728" width_o="2592" height_o="1728" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/4397e0ecd1a2845bb6c9dce2010a4d99148071e2caa874783d77199db8e7ea61/IMG_9432.JPG" data-mid="164735293" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/4397e0ecd1a2845bb6c9dce2010a4d99148071e2caa874783d77199db8e7ea61/IMG_9432.JPG" /> <img width="2592" height="1728" width_o="2592" height_o="1728" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/859d6d31855bd5a5260ca4dac5f979a08a6cb496511d7dc3014ce188ec781cf1/IMG_9430.JPG" data-mid="164735292" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/859d6d31855bd5a5260ca4dac5f979a08a6cb496511d7dc3014ce188ec781cf1/IMG_9430.JPG" /> <img width="1728" height="2592" width_o="1728" height_o="2592" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/7ef4ce99446fa3c76b0e7a72913d0d8535b6930a035632e3e8bed265491b4e05/IMG_9264.JPG" data-mid="164735064" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/7ef4ce99446fa3c76b0e7a72913d0d8535b6930a035632e3e8bed265491b4e05/IMG_9264.JPG" /> EsƨƎ-0 (2022) | dimensions vary, performative installation: foraged mammal skeleton, foraged vines, foraged grass, foraged twigs, found pottery shard, shower hose, wire, steel, human hair, wall paint, menstrual blood, site-specific vegetation, yarn, crystal violet, acrylic bead EsƨƎ-1 and EsƨƎ-0 are site-specific works created for OiiOiOOi’s&nbsp;_~M(-U-)LTI-HO(°ME°)- M(°U°)TUAL-HEAL-(IN)~_ group show, Torhaus Wehlen Gallery &amp; offsite, Stadt Wehlen.&nbsp; <img width="1080" height="1080" width_o="1080" height_o="1080" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/95581b1005215f33bc7a0fb9d5c90e2f33ae284ec62a5b5e526762607c6a7bd2/300561086_1235217103717689_2069395783485770902_n.jpg" data-mid="164734797" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/95581b1005215f33bc7a0fb9d5c90e2f33ae284ec62a5b5e526762607c6a7bd2/300561086_1235217103717689_2069395783485770902_n.jpg" /> https://beaxu.xyz/Cartogenesis Fri, 13 Jan 2023 17:56:07 +0000 Bea Xu https://beaxu.xyz/Cartogenesis Cartogenesis <img width="1998" height="2000" width_o="1998" height_o="2000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/48a5739c3fa4265f632a2814bd50c9c91d5c7b1b06befb2daae9880c6b498e18/Cartogenesis---Bodily-Fluids.png" data-mid="164726478" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/48a5739c3fa4265f632a2814bd50c9c91d5c7b1b06befb2daae9880c6b498e18/Cartogenesis---Bodily-Fluids.png" /> Cartogenesis brings the worlds of gossip fiction, non-human vibrations and sonic calls into a hyper performative listening session together and alone, transforming the site of listening into an exploration of translinguistic viewing. Cartogenesis is a deep listening podcast presenting participation as perception through set and setting. For each episode, Cartogenesis provides a specific set of guides that should be followed for optimal listening (see it as a recipe; if you don’t have one ingredient, add another that’s closer to hand). Listen on our bandcamp. <img width="1280" height="1280" width_o="1280" height_o="1280" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/3effa68b315d1422b7c307189e0368129f6d5c001ae3c7d953b696801a169d60/2022-06-29-15.38.03.jpg" data-mid="164726533" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/3effa68b315d1422b7c307189e0368129f6d5c001ae3c7d953b696801a169d60/2022-06-29-15.38.03.jpg" /> <img width="1280" height="960" width_o="1280" height_o="960" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/ca72b14dfee7deee5b10ec2b5f93ba4606ad88df0146db328e6781d86b65b4d4/photo_2022-06-27-19.08.27.jpeg" data-mid="164726595" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/ca72b14dfee7deee5b10ec2b5f93ba4606ad88df0146db328e6781d86b65b4d4/photo_2022-06-27-19.08.27.jpeg" /> <img width="960" height="1280" width_o="960" height_o="1280" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/5ffafa9a62a1c56719f5ae1a61508a702494d34c2cf5dcbeb170add573692dc3/photo_2022-03-01-22.02.11.jpeg" data-mid="164729094" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/960/i/5ffafa9a62a1c56719f5ae1a61508a702494d34c2cf5dcbeb170add573692dc3/photo_2022-03-01-22.02.11.jpeg" /> <img width="960" height="1280" width_o="960" height_o="1280" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/36516923f482e23ee4be64f57fa40615685e675da2127f9d3a01befb48a0d9be/photo_2022-03-01-22.02.27.jpeg" data-mid="164729090" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/960/i/36516923f482e23ee4be64f57fa40615685e675da2127f9d3a01befb48a0d9be/photo_2022-03-01-22.02.27.jpeg" /> <img width="960" height="1280" width_o="960" height_o="1280" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/4cec2a011234049eeacdf95f553b445e8eb640ad92fc11b5881f36b2a6e4e087/photo_2022-06-27-19.19.20.jpeg" data-mid="164729085" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/960/i/4cec2a011234049eeacdf95f553b445e8eb640ad92fc11b5881f36b2a6e4e087/photo_2022-06-27-19.19.20.jpeg" /> <img width="960" height="1280" width_o="960" height_o="1280" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/9a669c8a79c5f46239819c32fa0ccf060b929d5cfdeca57681132b47ba9d6509/photo_2022-03-01-22.02.07.jpeg" data-mid="164729089" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/960/i/9a669c8a79c5f46239819c32fa0ccf060b929d5cfdeca57681132b47ba9d6509/photo_2022-03-01-22.02.07.jpeg" /> Cartogenesis: Asemic Gloss (2022) | 01:09:06 hours, podcast episode (second of series) with accompanying ritual device and text, co-produced with Penny Rafferty, Brandon Rosenbluth, Steph Holl- Trieu, Alexander Iezzi and Marijn Degenaar – with contributions from Heath and Jenna Sutela for Omsk Social Club<img width="2000" height="2000" width_o="2000" height_o="2000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/d8ce933bbdb72b442442f54c9c6d66e4b2bf71736257393316041a4260011b83/Cartogenesis---Artwork.png" data-mid="164726514" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/d8ce933bbdb72b442442f54c9c6d66e4b2bf71736257393316041a4260011b83/Cartogenesis---Artwork.png" /> <img width="960" height="1280" width_o="960" height_o="1280" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/c32df9d33062796aef8d58fcfba6827fb57d6888292e619f3e1c0b7a40a67fd2/2023-01-14-22.26.36.jpg" data-mid="164729062" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/960/i/c32df9d33062796aef8d58fcfba6827fb57d6888292e619f3e1c0b7a40a67fd2/2023-01-14-22.26.36.jpg" /> <img width="960" height="1280" width_o="960" height_o="1280" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/10ff03696c31bc50a16d238673ed56564b7be933d4427ec30ea523b71bbc7ea9/photo_2022-06-27-19.09.36.jpeg" data-mid="164726597" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/960/i/10ff03696c31bc50a16d238673ed56564b7be933d4427ec30ea523b71bbc7ea9/photo_2022-06-27-19.09.36.jpeg" /> <img width="1280" height="960" width_o="1280" height_o="960" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/8026ff2b7bc94e8b89de0e2dd6fce9189d76c9060644cbd394a6a3d70c2410d9/2023-01-14-22.26.59.jpg" data-mid="164729081" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/8026ff2b7bc94e8b89de0e2dd6fce9189d76c9060644cbd394a6a3d70c2410d9/2023-01-14-22.26.59.jpg" /> Cartogenesis: Bodily Fluids &amp; Sacred Baggage (2021) | 01:38:15 hours, podcast episode (first of series) with accompanying ritual device and text, co-produced with Penny Rafferty, Brandon Rosenbluth, Steph Holl- Trieu, Alexander Iezzi and Marijn Degenaar – with contribution from Bea Xu &amp; Bones Tan Jones for Omsk Social Club https://beaxu.xyz/Plastic-Lattice Fri, 31 Dec 2021 01:45:53 +0000 Bea Xu https://beaxu.xyz/Plastic-Lattice Plastic Lattice <img width="4624" height="3468" width_o="4624" height_o="3468" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/452627076ce22892d08e8cfad2399b52869b852603f05e71ba3de52ae9d7cfe3/IMG20211030160934.jpg" data-mid="162882235" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/452627076ce22892d08e8cfad2399b52869b852603f05e71ba3de52ae9d7cfe3/IMG20211030160934.jpg" /> It began as a proposed sequel to a live action roleplay (Bloodsport &lt; The Island) for UNFIX Festival 2021, where I’d planned to create a piece of ontological design: a talisman that can record, visualise and enhance one’s presence in digital ritual. Manipulating, storing and better understanding psychic energy. The intention to connect humans across geographical distances underlined my aspirations at Rupert's 9th Alternative Education Programme, but the medium - beyond a signature use of menstrual blood - remained obscure. Reading Starhawk’s Dreaming the Dark during the 6 month programme problematised my desire to control and stagnate energy, much as she asserts that it must keep “moving” and return to the earth: “filtered, purified”. During a trip in London’s Epping Forest in summer 2021, I called on nature spirits to aid me and mycelium networks emerged as a subterranean technological infrastructure that can be activated during ritual. Utilising excerpts from a speculative text-in-progress and a pentagrammic motif from the original Bloodsport universe, foraged Lithuanian chanterelle mushrooms formed a fairy ring and channelled blood into a central tube connecting to the soil outside the Tech Arts gallery – and ultimately to fellow international ritualists who joined via a Discord talk session for the launch of the Heavy Centre group show on 25th November 2021. <img width="1365" height="2048" width_o="1365" height_o="2048" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/f4d3dee98bcc42f36b3fcaafd49ecb440a6b5900d499f449b732c878ef82bceb/261817181_4653754728018068_1970407834325312790_n.jpg" data-mid="162882392" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/f4d3dee98bcc42f36b3fcaafd49ecb440a6b5900d499f449b732c878ef82bceb/261817181_4653754728018068_1970407834325312790_n.jpg" /> The piece is a land-based, site-specific work that requires its organic components to be foraged by the artist from naturally-occurring sources local to where it will be exhibited. In practice, this means that local moss and mushrooms as well as fresh menstrual blood from a consenting ritualist's recent cycle, or recently collected extravenus blood of a consenting ritualist, will need to be assembled prior to each incidence of its exhibition. The length of central tube earthing the blood to the outdoor soil will also depend on placement of the installation and can be adapted depending on the conditions of each venue and location. Plastic Lattice can function as a standalone installation or as a performative installation. <img width="5184" height="3456" width_o="5184" height_o="3456" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/fa6e3a5f26df416378a76be0c83f6dee27a452b83ac8dabf7b7904822e9e2f4f/IMG_9024.jpg" data-mid="162882523" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/fa6e3a5f26df416378a76be0c83f6dee27a452b83ac8dabf7b7904822e9e2f4f/IMG_9024.jpg" /> <img width="5184" height="3456" width_o="5184" height_o="3456" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/55bdb948785d187c3f8db43f97b844ffd981cd4b8b62a4ca8a67a8e872671c15/IMG_9026.jpg" data-mid="162882524" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/55bdb948785d187c3f8db43f97b844ffd981cd4b8b62a4ca8a67a8e872671c15/IMG_9026.jpg" /> <img width="3228" height="4841" width_o="3228" height_o="4841" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/5887cc11ee2205296ddb26c7ce82e2ed577867daa79655c09d8000207efafe91/IMG_9029.jpg" data-mid="162882525" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/5887cc11ee2205296ddb26c7ce82e2ed577867daa79655c09d8000207efafe91/IMG_9029.jpg" /> <img width="5184" height="3456" width_o="5184" height_o="3456" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/2a8df1438b1000285dc803695f6f18e97d5c0104528d49fc1fa5c2e694dd5a12/IMG_9016.jpg" data-mid="162882489" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/2a8df1438b1000285dc803695f6f18e97d5c0104528d49fc1fa5c2e694dd5a12/IMG_9016.jpg" /> <img width="4569" height="3046" width_o="4569" height_o="3046" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/d64e9cbcf7c6a4c5a46f62b87d2ee1401976b56b168a1f6a5cb3fcee46bea8ad/IMG_9046.jpg" data-mid="162882570" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/d64e9cbcf7c6a4c5a46f62b87d2ee1401976b56b168a1f6a5cb3fcee46bea8ad/IMG_9046.jpg" /> Plastic Lattice (2021) | 93 x 73 x 28cm + site-specific extended length, performative installation: foraged local mushrooms, PET bottles, foraged local moss, vinyl tubing, plastic tubing connectors, scavenged metal chair, polyester, wool, cotton, modelling clay, safety pins, menstrual blood, water, foraged soil, paper diary with stickers <img width="2048" height="1365" width_o="2048" height_o="1365" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/a48f860a26968f9e4206b482a475015dee851436723bb3696f0273aeb4d37dd6/261635911_4653754618018079_5801987498378744339_n.jpg" data-mid="162886038" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/a48f860a26968f9e4206b482a475015dee851436723bb3696f0273aeb4d37dd6/261635911_4653754618018079_5801987498378744339_n.jpg" /> <img width="2048" height="1365" width_o="2048" height_o="1365" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/3a31e3e9266b75b8dd1338a24c74673778141a607e164b44c914485636493713/260784097_4653755048018036_3919610397529837543_n.jpg" data-mid="162886017" border="0" 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A ritual artefact from a speculative landscape is routinely visited by an unidentified lab technician, who reads words from the pages of a crusty old diary survived from our present era, as if in prayer or reverence to a greater subterranean diety. During this first ritual performance, energetic contact was successfully received by various co-ritualist friends across Europe and North America, who all connected into the mycelium network via their local patch of earth.&nbsp; <img width="1024" height="768" width_o="1024" height_o="768" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/8b6378c99f005bc4917c6088fc36cddf2f455605b4c04469d903dbe5e8499f15/19FC676E-3C27-43B8-9D47-33FEF7AE7586_1_105_c.jpeg" data-mid="162883276" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/8b6378c99f005bc4917c6088fc36cddf2f455605b4c04469d903dbe5e8499f15/19FC676E-3C27-43B8-9D47-33FEF7AE7586_1_105_c.jpeg" /> <img width="1024" height="768" width_o="1024" height_o="768" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/8beab84d9e423a04ed0579b75b485f37a19374d143cd0cdf895de829c7e6ee87/16EE979F-F751-4BCF-83E0-B578BA58679F_1_105_c.jpeg" data-mid="162883086" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/8beab84d9e423a04ed0579b75b485f37a19374d143cd0cdf895de829c7e6ee87/16EE979F-F751-4BCF-83E0-B578BA58679F_1_105_c.jpeg" /> <img width="1024" height="768" width_o="1024" height_o="768" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/db8485df12c2a5735171c2cfaeb8acd58ce2d4327ad618f822ec8a5e8a0ef2ee/6389D95E-BED2-4101-89F7-32069674CEA5_1_105_c.jpeg" data-mid="162883128" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/db8485df12c2a5735171c2cfaeb8acd58ce2d4327ad618f822ec8a5e8a0ef2ee/6389D95E-BED2-4101-89F7-32069674CEA5_1_105_c.jpeg" /> <img width="1536" height="2048" width_o="1536" height_o="2048" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/a05bbf93875af7577f62fe3352ae81337b76427f836c588d8343be37d3428baf/signal-2022-10-25-140331_027.jpeg" data-mid="162882980" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/a05bbf93875af7577f62fe3352ae81337b76427f836c588d8343be37d3428baf/signal-2022-10-25-140331_027.jpeg" /> <img width="1152" height="2048" width_o="1152" height_o="2048" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/6ecfefd672611507fe3dabac2524717d166d57d17df2107a921134365f39fc7c/signal-2022-10-25-140352_002.jpeg" data-mid="162882981" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/6ecfefd672611507fe3dabac2524717d166d57d17df2107a921134365f39fc7c/signal-2022-10-25-140352_002.jpeg" /> <img width="768" height="1024" width_o="768" height_o="1024" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/aeea11cd107fc13f817defdd5c591fead75bebe1cba27463f16c8bf46ef4187d/763BAB38-3FAA-4161-A7A9-B291F039641C_1_105_c.jpeg" data-mid="162883199" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/768/i/aeea11cd107fc13f817defdd5c591fead75bebe1cba27463f16c8bf46ef4187d/763BAB38-3FAA-4161-A7A9-B291F039641C_1_105_c.jpeg" /> <img width="2048" height="1536" width_o="2048" height_o="1536" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/1321970b2cd3d5f4b3afd417c354f1743b92b47ba45de8b7d056e72d661a7a62/signal-2022-10-25-140331_010.jpeg" data-mid="162882966" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/1321970b2cd3d5f4b3afd417c354f1743b92b47ba45de8b7d056e72d661a7a62/signal-2022-10-25-140331_010.jpeg" /> At the eponymously titled solo show at Mehringplatz 20, Berlin, I continued my experiments by fleshing out the qualitative nature of data transmitted by Plastic Lattice. On October 4th 2022, I did a live demonstration of the ritual using my menstrual blood and colluded with attendees of the exhibition launch to send five specific symbols to two co-ritualist friends connecting from Malaysia and Lithuania, before gleaning live feedback from them to compare their impressions to the symbols we had sent from the gallery.&nbsp; For the first time, I also opened up the work to gallery visitors to use the device themselves, with the aid of an instructional diagram for the ritual and an instructional audio track co-produced with John Broback.&nbsp; <img width="960" height="1280" width_o="960" height_o="1280" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/95788ee102fbdf5201380e28f941ab5310d8adc490009c3979276a72a74f692f/Plastic_Lattice_2_website.jpg" data-mid="162886213" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/960/i/95788ee102fbdf5201380e28f941ab5310d8adc490009c3979276a72a74f692f/Plastic_Lattice_2_website.jpg" /> <img width="971" height="1182" width_o="971" height_o="1182" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/340d4d5cb2b26c3fbe4e9d35c104b3b8eb1b6f62481b76c79c985aeedab1163f/PlasticLattice-2_RitualDiagram.jpg" data-mid="162886151" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/971/i/340d4d5cb2b26c3fbe4e9d35c104b3b8eb1b6f62481b76c79c985aeedab1163f/PlasticLattice-2_RitualDiagram.jpg" /> 飞飞 · Plastic Lattice ˶જ Ritual Instructions | Bea Xu &amp; John Broback Iteration by iteration, the fictional ritual artifact is turning into a prototype of ontological design that will hopefully unlock analogue, land-assisted technological prowess for geographically separated groups of humans. The quantity and quality of feedback collected with each showing will grow and inform how each new iteration will be experienced by the public.&nbsp;