ARTIST

 

Tao Xinqi

Born in 1990, she graduated from the Art Institute of Chicago with a Master's degree in Art Management and now lives and works in Hangzhou. The work takes performance as the main medium of creation, extending installation, image, text and collaborative cross-media works. With hip-hop dancers as the origin of her creative identity, she explores the possibilities of contemporary Performance. The spectacle scenes she creates in her "Asian People" series have a strong Remix, indefinable quality, and use the technical concepts and body language of hip-hop dance to create and deconstruct in contemporary art performance. The contradictions about the reality of the world are deeply discussed under the means of script and anti-script, body and anti-body, role and de-role, improvisation and anti-improvisation, metaphor and anti-narrative. As a generator of simulacra and social observation, "Subhuman" deconstructs and reorganizes all the seemingly discrete but implicitly related events of The Times through the body of the character in the fuzzy zone of consciousness. It is both a performance and a statement.

Education & Teaching (Selected)



2014 - 2016School of the Art Insitute of Chicago, Master of Arts Administration and Policy, Chicago, USA
2009 - 2013
University of International Business and Economics,Bachelor of Management, Beijing, China


Exhibitions (Selected)

2022.7 - 92022 National Youth Art Invitation Exhibition Reconstituted Neon

Shanghai Style Art Museum, Shanghai
2021.10 - 12   Sub-Human 6: Motion’s Intervention of Sleep and Dreams, performance, 

<Back to Scene: McaM 5th Anniversary Art Season>, Ming Contemporary Art Museum, 

Shanghai / <Vacuo Groove: 90s Generation>, abcdefg Space, Hangzhou
2021.12The Butterfly Dream of Sub-Human: Persona Tales Collection, Exhibition Unit,

 <Back to Scene: McaM 5th Anniversary Art Season>, Ming Contemporary Art Museum, Shanghai
2020.10Art Nova 100 10th Anniversary Exhibition IN/OUT, Beijing, exhibited artist
2018.8Allegory of the Cave/Body, new media interactive performance, SAMAS, CHAO Art Center, Beijing