1 Question ⋅20 People ⋅ 20 Glasgow ⋅ 20 World
Interactive Installation, Photo Print, Video
25:10mins
2024

DNA mirror
monitor, camera (Interactive installation）
2024

Where_is_语言_مرضی_nehmen 나?
projector
1.56mins
2024

A translation Experiment
screen print
2023

My word, My world
Code generated moving images
2023 - now

Xiaoyu XIONG

Xiaoyu (Sherry) Xiong is a China and the UK based artist, she holds an MA degree on Graphic Design and Art direction from Manchester School of Art, after that she participated in the art residence project in South of China funded by the British Council (CtC) in 2021 starting her career as an artist. She is now graduating from the MFA program at Glasgow School of Art Which supported by CSC (China Scholarship Council). Xiaoyu’s creative mediums are programming and printmaking. The forms of works are mainly moving images, interactive installations and Screen-printing. Recently, the art practice mainly focuses on the subjective images of individuals behind art heritages, she prefers to based on the methodology of Everyday Life to use different materials which from the heritage sites to develop and extend the understandings and thinking.

Her work “”listen to her”” (Interactive Moving images, 2021) won a GDC Gold Award and participated in the GDC global exhibition. The work was collected by Guan Shanyue Art Museum (Shenzhen) and appeared on the cover of Art and Design magazine. Recently, the moving image work “”Glasgow in my Eyes”” was shortlisted for the visual arts Scotland Century Exhibition.

Words is not only generated within the human community but also emerges from the interplay and contact between the human community and the animate landscape, born of the dynamic relationship with the more-than-human world (Abram, 1996). Languages such as Gaelic, Chinese, Mongolian, Hindi, and others have actively or passively participated in the processes of historical and societal changes. Growth, death, and rebirth. In this process of evolution, the expression of human thoughts, emotions, and feelings has passed through the creation of words, natural existence, and the laws of natural behaviour. This joint construction gives rise to both abstract and concrete social forms, with the social significance they generate contributing to the construction of new social structures and hierarchical configurations (Ghosh, 2006). At present, in the environments of both the United Kingdom and China, Gaelic is being revived, learning oracle bone inscriptions is becoming a popular trend, and various declarations and ideologies are seeping into publics’ everyday life. Words is gradually more become like a code; People cannot discern whether words are a means of perceiving the “real” world or if they have lost their inherent, non-arbitrary connection to that world (Abram, 1996). People lost in different words and sounds, unable to distinguish. Philosopher and ecologist Abram (1996) believes that words are living language, a way to dialogue with the world rather than explain the world. Art historian and archaeologist K.C.Chang (1983) believes that words and images are two powerful tools that people have used to seize power since ancient times. Philosopher Foucault (1989) believes that perception is a "never-said" discourse, and it cannot be expressed through words. And the body, as the subject of discourse, is also subject to the constraints of language. (Hingis, 1994) In total, it is undeniable that from the distant past to the present, although the forms of words have evolved, the profound influence of their underlying symbols remains evident (Ferrara, 2022). Words are theirselves power, which worth to be explored again and again (Bourdieu，1991).