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Xiyao Chen (based in London) is an interdisciplinary artist, landworker and researcher. Her practice is driven in response to the imminent climate emergencies, across the expanded field of anthropology, moving images, sonic sculptures and agroecology. She is currently nurturing an embodied practice that values care over extraction, challenging eco-social injustices by focusing on more-than-human interspecies kinship and the affective turn in ecology. Her latest project traces non-extractive energy in relation to the situated soil, through sonic scores, installations, mark making and moving images. In parallel to her practice, she is currently teaching at the University of the Arts London and Royal College of Art in London.
SODAS 2123 activities are supported by Lithuanian Council for Culture and Vilnius city municipality