Half body is on the ground and the other half is on the underground
ℐ𝓃𝓈𝓉𝒶𝓁𝓁𝒶𝓉𝒾𝑜𝓃
This ongoing performance series began during my residency at outsideininsideout. At that time I created an interactive installation set in a charred forest reconstructed through 3D scanning. White noise covers the entire environment, erasing natural sound so that hearing becomes indistinct, like the echo of a memory. Light, as a material and shaping presence, takes the lead; modeled on real-world light fields, it resets perceptual order and opens a concurrent inquiry into vision and sound. The work premiered in Germany at Gallery Torhaus Wehlen (17 August 2024) and Slug Gallery, Leipzig (23 August 2024).
Since then, the installation has evolved into a toolkit for live visual performance, combining Unreal Engine with live sound and bodily movement. Early iterations were presented in Berlin, including Chant of the Eclipse (5 October 2024, Studio.db), Snakes and Ladders (8 November 2024, Kunsthaus Kule), and Dock Digital (19 December 2024).
As the series developed, I integrated a Max/MSP audio system and gradually built a narrative structure in which body, sound, and image are inseparable. This approach became central in works such as Boundary Condition (St James Garlickhythe, London; 22 February and 8 August 2025), and an(8)x ghost festival (Berlin, 2025), where light, sound, and movement intertwine to form a more complete dramaturgy.
How the avatar is formed: In this scene where optical order is reset, I enter as a “monster”. The exterior is aggressive; the core is grief. It has no affiliation and moves between the visible and the invisible. It is a perceptual agent that responds to light intensity, noise thresholds, virtual light mapping, and the granularity of voice. In strong light the body recedes to the edges; in darkness distortion is illuminated. Pulled by broken memory, and between ruptured language and unstable identity, the body remains incomplete and repeatedly reassembles itself from soil, history, and residue under the drive of desire. Existence is therefore not seamless but pieced together by fissures; instability is its form. This logic aligns with the mechanism of light as the leading medium: light is a technical parameter and a driver of narrative dynamics.
Reference image: In Painted Skin, the disguise of “skin as face” blurs the boundaries between true and false, surface and essence, human and nonhuman. This ambiguity extends to my performer persona: anger, memory, and desire are juxtaposed, migrating and translating between narrative and body along the paths of light and sound.
*MAX MSP
*Unreal Engine
*Arduino
*Zbrush
*Blender
*Adobe Substance 3D Painter
𝒪𝒰𝒯𝒮ℐ𝒟ℰℐ𝒩ℐ𝒩𝒮ℐ𝒟ℰ𝒪𝒰𝒯
҉̇͊͑17th Agust 2024
Gallery Torhaus Wehlen,Germany
҉̇͊͑23rd Agust 2024
Slug Gallery,Leipzig,Germany
𝒻𝓊𝓁𝓁𝑒𝒸𝒽𝑜 𝒶𝓁𝒸𝒽𝑒𝓂𝒾𝓈𝓉𝓈
҉̇͊͑26th Sep 2025
Metamorphika , London, UK
𝒜𝒩(𝟾)𝒳 ℱ𝑒𝓈𝓉𝒾𝓋𝒶𝓁 𝟸𝟶𝟸𝟻: 𝒫𝒽𝒶𝓃𝓉𝑜𝓂 𝒫𝒶𝓇𝒶𝒹𝑒 - 𝑔.𝒽𝟶𝓈𝓉.𝒹𝒶𝓂𝒳𝑔𝟷
҉̇͊͑15th Agust 2025
90mil, Berlin, Germany
ℬ𝑜𝓊𝓃𝒹𝒶𝓇𝓎 𝒞𝑜𝓃𝒹𝒾𝓉𝒾𝑜𝓃 𝒫𝑒𝓇𝒻𝑜𝓇𝓂𝒶𝓃𝒸𝑒
҉̇͊͑22nd February 2025
Dock digital, Berlin, Germany
𝒮𝒩𝒜𝒦ℰ𝒮 𝒜𝒩𝒟 ℒ𝒜𝒟𝒟ℰℛ𝒮
҉̇͊͑8th November 2024
Kunsthaus Kule, Berlin, Germany
𝒪𝒰𝒯𝒮ℐ𝒟ℰℐ𝒩ℐ𝒩𝒮ℐ𝒟ℰ𝒪𝒰𝒯
23rd Agust 2024
Slug Gallery,Leipzig,Germany
𝒪𝒰𝒯𝒮ℐ𝒟ℰℐ𝒩ℐ𝒩𝒮ℐ𝒟ℰ𝒪𝒰𝒯
17th Agust 2024
Gallery Torhaus Wehlen,Germany
𝒻𝓊𝓁𝓁𝑒𝒸𝒽𝑜 𝒶𝓁𝒸𝒽𝑒𝓂𝒾𝓈𝓉𝓈
26th Sep 2025
work with xiaoyu1002_
Metamorphika , London, UK
𝒜𝒩(𝟾)𝒳 ℱ𝑒𝓈𝓉𝒾𝓋𝒶𝓁 𝟸𝟶𝟸𝟻: 𝒫𝒽𝒶𝓃𝓉𝑜𝓂 𝒫𝒶𝓇𝒶𝒹𝑒 - 𝑔.𝒽𝟶𝓈𝓉.𝒹𝒶𝓂𝒳𝑔𝟷
15th Agust 2025
90mil, Berlin, Germany
ꌶBoundary Condition Performance
22nd February 2025
ST James Garlickhythe Church, London
This performance felt like the night when my Outsidein friends and I buried the kimchi jar deep in the Saxon Switzerland forest. Microorganisms ferment endlessly through time and space, and I sense that in another distant time, those traces will be reactivated.
I felt the subtle shifts of fermentation, the dampness of the soil, and the stillness of the forest, as if I could perceive the electromagnetic signals from the future.
In this moment, only what lies beneath the light remains visible. Light interweaves a new visual and sonic narrative, while everything else drifts and transforms in the unknown.
Technically:
- LDR (Light Dependent Resistor)
- Interfaced through OSC with Max MSP
- Data sent via port print to Unreal Engine
ꌶ Performance with alesya（sound）
19th December 2024
Dock digital / Berlin
AV
Journey of shifting spaces,
where ambient soundscapes
and surrounding light create
a fluid atmosphere. As light
and shadow intertwine and
blur the line of each moment,
guiding viewers into realms
that feel both familiar and
otherworldly.
*Arduino
*Unreal engine
*MAX MSP
ꌶ AV performance
sounds by alesya
SNAKES AND LADDERS
8th November 2024
Kunsthaus Kule / Berlin
*Arduino
*Unreal engine
*MAX MSP
Video link
ꌶChant of the eclipse
5th October 2024
Studio.db.Berlin
In the collaboration between
XI-N and Song Xin, darkness
is a void, while light intrudes
upon it. From their clash,
shadows arise, becoming
a hidden language and a
tangible form of imagination.
This opposition and fusion
span the boundaries of the
real and the virtual, the
physical and the digital,
and extend to the edge
of existence and creation.
From this, a world emerges—
one suspended between
reality and illusion, filled with
fragmented perceptions and
reconstructions.
*Arduino
*Unreal engine
*MAX MSP
*MIDI Controller
ꌶDragonbird Cave
HEAVEN'S ARENA
21st June 2024
Fire London Vauxhall / London
TIDE SOUND ART
5th Aprile 2024
caracol olol jackson / Vicenza
*Unreal engine
*Blender
*Substance painter
*Zbrus
Video link
