PERFORMANCE
OEDIPUS THE KING
THE TRIAL OF THE WHITE SNAKE
THE BROKEN DOLL
FACING THE MONSTER
COLLAGE & GRAPHIC
This cipher is not a symbol, but a language that can be typed, used and translated. It would be used diversely in this projects.
MARCH 2024, ARCHITECTURAL ASSOCIATION INTERPROFESSIONAL STUDIO, LONDON
BINOCULARS
DREAMER
Costume Designer & Music Composer & Graphic Designer: Kailin Xu Animator & Tech Assistant: Lucy Wei Video Producer: Pingxiangzi Qiu Literary Consultant & Co-Text Composer: Freya Shi Videographer: Jingwen Li Photographer: Luoyi Xu Stage Assistant: Jieming Lan
THEATRE
“CODED LANGUAGE”
Literature References: The Fall of the House of Usher, Edgar Allan Poe The Black Cat, Edgar Allan Poe 1984, George Orwell Brave New World, Aldous Huxley The Call of Cthulhu, H. P. Lovecraft The Burning of The Books, Bertolt Brecht Wuhan Diary, Fangfang The White Book, Han Kang
CAGE
© 2024 Kailin Xu. All rights reserved.
CONVERGENCE
Cast: Host - Ayisha Mi Dancer - Yuchen Wu Conceptual Artist & Director: Kailin Xu
CREDIT LIST
FILM&VIDEO
IG: kkk.kailin xkl981026@gmail.com
RED ROSE, WHITE ROSE ( 2019 )
KAILIN XU
RED ROSE, WHITE ROSE ( 2021 )
MIRACLE
READING CLUB
RED ROSE, WHITE ROSE ( 2022 )
“READING”
DIRECTOR / COSTUME & SET & GRAPHIC DESIGNER / MUSIC COMPOSER
HOMEPAGE
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COLLAGE & GRAPHIC
404
MULTIMEDIA PERFORMANCE
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"404 Reading Club” is an audience-participatory spatial experimental performance that was shown publicly in London as part of the Architectural Association Interprofessional Studio's March event in 2024. Inspired by the hidden communications of people in resisting official ideology, the performance combines literature with video, sound, material, and body movement to create a spiritual connection between the audience and the performance that is beyond the verbal. The performance is organised as a ‘reading event’. ‘The Reading’ is divided into four thematic chapters that share information and emotions with the audience through the host's ‘reading' and guidance. In the process of reading, the audience's perspectives and identities are transformed, and they participate in a mystical ritual together with the performers. The ‘coded language’ is the key element of this work, which is ‘read’ by the audience in a multi-sensory way. A truly usable ‘secret language’ is also designed and applied to the performance.
HAND CRAFTS
LA CATRINA'S HAPPY ANNIVERSARY
TURQUE
PARTITA
partitaCANAL DIALOGE
THE CRUCIBLE
OTHERS
PSYCHO