To bridge:
XU Yixin, Genevieve Hayes
Performance, Duration: 12'53"
December 2024
upcoming performance - June, July 2025 in Utrecht
To bridge:
XU Yixin, Genevieve Hayes
Performance, Duration: 12'53"
December 2024
upcoming performance - June, July 2025 in Utrecht
Presented at HKU Loods, Utrecht. Projection technologies/ Video document & Editing by XU Yixin.Facilitating during the performance by Emily Ghazal.
The preformative letter reading To bridge: started with Yixin reading a letter to their mother that will never be sent. Genevieve writes back/responds with her embodied experience - a coming out letter from her daughter. On the bed (like the scene in Yixin's letter), the roles/relationships of mother and daughter are transferred and transformed between unfamiliar and familiar in different languages, queer cultures, families, and geographical locations.