Education

 

2016—2018  
MA  in Fine Art, Painting, Royal College of Art, London
2014—2016 
MA in Vocal Performance, Royal Academy of Music, London
2008—2013  
BA in Voice and Opera, Central Conservatory of Music, Beijing

 

For an up to date CV including exhibitions, please visit the artist's website

As a trans-medium artist, I have to be sensitive to differences within forms. Music as a form is for me both more abstract and emotional than painting but painting opens out the possibilities of playing within the in-between of analysis and sensory discharge. I think that gradually I have needed to find a third space within this difference and that is performance, which is another way of existing on the edge of time. We are simply required to invent a relationship to the yet-to-come by drawing on the memory forms that are inherited through examining the artefacts of the past. As artists we both seek a renewal of traditions but also its rupture. We are simply passing through form in order to yield with time the dispersal and renewal of new forms organised as force.

 

Text source: artist website

Artist website: xiongyanwen.com

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