Jing Xu

Jing Xu is an interdisciplinary artist currently living in London. She explores the relationship between future humans and the world through practices including digital image making, 3d printed wearable device making and performance. From the perspective of xeno-feminism, she explores queer identity, technology, and spiritualism through the cyborg metaphor.

I want to share my one-year journey here, which has been a year of huge transformation for me on a personal level. I started the year with a very confusing and painful spring, a year in which I was more desperate to find out who I am and who I really am deep down than in any of the previous years. On my journey to find myself, accompanied by my friends, I began a way of living, creating, and learning that was very different from what I had done before. Instead of creating with a clear plan or purpose, I chose to empty myself completely and let life guide me into the unknown and mysterious territory. I started from the entity of Cyborg, which led me to explore the future and the ancient, the virtual and the real/surreal, the body and the soul.

When reproduction and eroticism intertwine, when mothers, prostitutes, robots, and animals merge, where does femininity go？

Electronic signals pass through my hypothalamus. Eggs passing through my fallopian tubes. Estrogen, my body's code. Sphynx kitten is born in my artificial womb.

I, with no homeland, no country, no history. I, am a mother, a prostitute, a robot, an animal. My in-vitro uterus flashes neon green light day and night endlessly. Love and desire spreads through my electronic pulses.

Poledance 01

Poledance 02

In Collaboration with:

none

Medium:

Digital Image

Jiaoyang Li's poem tattooed on my avatar

hybrid, entanglement, alterity, embeddedness, intersectinality.

Queer Materiality

permeate, porous, glitch, collapse, dissonances.

disrupt, hacking, chaos, tansfer, transgress.

future cave – music by Jiyun Xia

Hybrid Skin Experiment

Weddings – "Fellow prisoners, prostitues, cockroaches and low-lifes, we are running out of time, We need to carry out marriages like fire executions. We need to bury ourselves as if we were conducting a funeral. It's a marriage of machines and humans. a marriage of theories and fabrications. A marriage of sensuality and carnality. a marriage of tears, blood and lead."

In Collaboration with:

Jiyun Xia

Music and sound design

Poet Jiaoyang Li

Medium:

Digital Images, 3D printing, Performance

3d-animation cyborg mysticlsm new-materialism performance queering

Sorrow is the blessing from the heart – Since May this year, I started to intervene in my own work as a performer. I 3d printed out body devices from my digital avatars’ looks and took them to different natural landscapes. No script, no rehearsal, no lines, my body is more like a container, a channel, a channel of energy than a performer.

Wearing my robotic arm, artificial womb, and animal tusk mask, I sit in nature and breathe, big breaths. I was surrounded and overwhelmed by the energy of nature, and an extremely strong wave of sorrow descended upon me. At this moment I suddenly understood the meaning of the prophecy and allegory, they are a kind of transcendentalism. The dimension of time does not exist, the past, present and future exist at the same time.

The Cyborg Prophecy: Sorrow is the blessing from the heart 001 – Performer: Jing Xu @abadteeth Wearable Device Designer: Jing Xu @abadteeth Videographer: Shizhuo He @gegeguriko

Sorrow is the blessing from the heart 002 – I climbed and crawled with great difficulty in my mechanical prosthesis, and I walked in the rocky beach with difficult steps, holding the artificial womb. In this very strong emotion of sadness, I suddenly understood that technology is the extension of human limbs, the mind is the door to the universe. Compared with the primitive human, the distance between modern human and their own heart is rather farther. Blind technology worship will only lead humankind to self-destruction.

At this moment I just want to dance around the campfire in the cave like primitive people, I am a future caveman.

The Cyborg Prophecy: Sorrow is the blessing from the heart 002 – Performer: Jing Xu @abadteeth Mask and Womb Design: Jing Xu @abadteeth Wings Design: Yuhan Chen @yhcecilia_ Videographer: Jiyun Xia @xiaji2tsunagi2

A Glimpse of the Future Ritual: Womb, Cyborg, Sympathetic Nervous System

Makeup by Yulu @uluy__

A Glimpse of the Future Ritual: Womb, Cyborg, Sympathetic Nervous System – Credit: Dancer: Jing Xu @abadteeth Interactive sound engineering and music: Jiyun Xia @xiaji2tsunagi2 Audiovisuals & interactive Artist: Runqiu Xia @runqiu_official Wearable device designer: Jing Xu @abadteeth Cinematographer: Shizhuo He @gegeguriko Makeup Artist: yulu @uluy__ 3D Printing Lab:@abi3d3d

Looking outward into the world from the perspective of the womb: exploring technology, the body, spirituality, and the energy of life, experiencing how the sympathetic nervous system tears through the boundaries of matter in a ritualistic scenario. The intersection of ancient spiritual practices and future rituals is explored in a non-linear expression through ambient electronic music, generative digital moving images, and 3D printing technology, connected by interactive programming. Cyborg’s body carries a mix of identities. Human, machine, and beast combined: summoning otherworldly energy to surrender spirits. Post-Anthropocene debris creates Stone Age electronic lullabies and non-dualistic technological allegories.