I’m an ethnographer and performance artist currently pursuing a Master in Design Studies in Publics at the Harvard Graduate School of Design. Before that, I graduated from University College London (UCL) with first-class honours in Global Humanitarian Studies.
My research interests lie at the intersection of multimodal anthropology, embodiment, queer/gender politics, and the socialist state. My current work explores the formation of queer subjectivities in relation to socialist moral ideology, asking how state-produced moral values are embodied, negotiated, and unsettled in everyday life. I am exploring ways of responding to this question through ethnographic research on performance art (行为艺术 xingwei yishu) and live art (现场艺术 xianchang yishu) communities, while also attending to broader forms of queer public culture, including ballroom, dance, digital shorts, brain rot videos, and other vernacular media practices.
CV
Performance Art 行为&现场
- Everything is FINE!
- Solidarity is the POWER 团结就是力量
- Lipstick
- Same but Difference (Spring Equinox)
- Towards Dirt
- Go Round and Round
- Radio Calisthenics
Voice from the Community 社区&声音
- Vagina Monologues
- Understanding Socialism in 100 Comments
- ‘Praising‘ Colonialism
- Qingdao Zhongshan Road
- Hague Mothers
Creative Writing 写作
Public Engagement & Academic Conference 展览&会议&其他
- Rebuilding: Sites/Sights of East Asia: 31th Columbia GradCon
- EXPERIMENT: Rethinking Representation, Methods, & Knowledge American Ethnological Society (AES) Spring Conference
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DIRT: NSSR Anthropology Graduate Student Conference
- IMPACT: Durham Anthropology Graduate Student Conference