XU Yixin

b1996, Hunan, grow up in Shenzhen

currently based in Utrecht, NL

They are an interdisciplinary artist, physical performer, and workshop facilitator. Rooted in performance and community, they seek collaboration and connection through physical contact, exploring the queerness and belonging woven into both art and life. In constant changing and migration, their body becomes the only container.

Their practice is shaped by a layered life experience: growing up as a left-behind child, lived in an immigrant city, raised in a matriarchal household surrounded by local food and dialect; researching Javanese dance gestures in Indonesia; engaging with contact improvisation communities; working with migrant worker art NGOs in Shenzhen; performing in physical theatre; and arriving in the collective-based HKU MAFA program in the Netherlands. have also become part of the embodied archive they draw from—using the body as a medium to connect with others.