Beile Hu

Lives and works in Chicago, IL

Artist statement

Beile Hu is an interdisciplinary artist working across performance, sound, moving images and installations. Their practice often revolves around ritual repetition, and intimate interactions with people and non-human entities, expanding toward the soft touch of one-to-one relationships. Their works explore the potential of the human body as a vessel for easing pain and a culture dish for resistance and rebellion. Through sound, interactive performance, and mixed-media installations, they examine how technology can both extend and constrain the body. By translating the personal into the political, they investigate fluid forms of intimacy between humans, non-human entities, and social-ecological environments. Through sensory interplay and the navigation of vulnerability within performance, their practice examines how emotions are retained, transformed, and echoed through human presence physically, culturally, and historically.

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