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ARTIST STATEMENT:

Beile Hu is an artist and researcher working with performance, sound, and moving images. Their practices primary engage urban ecologies through sonic fieldwork, exploring vibrant and intimate relationships between trees, water, and architecture. As part of this engagement, the human body functions as a sensor, acting as a site of mediation shaped through ongoing processes of variation and transformation. By translating the personal into the political, they investigate a fluid form of intimacy between humans, non-human entities, and social-ecological environments. Working across cities in China and the United States, they examine how non-human entities register, retain, and recompose human presence both physically and historically. Their work aims to challenge problematic socio-political norms while interrogating the hidden power hierarchies within more-than-human entanglements.

BIO:

Beile Hu (b. 2002) is an interdisciplinary artist and researcher of performance, sound, and moving images. They are currently finishing up their MFA at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (U.S.) with the Visionary Scholars Award. Previously, they received a BA in International Communication Studies from University of Nottingham (China/U.K.). They have exhibited and performed internationally, including at the Marta Czok Foundation (Venice, Italy), the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago (Chicago, U.S.), Black Mountain College Museum + Arts Center (Asheville, U.S.), Asian Improv aRts Midwest (Chicago, U.S.), Fried Fruit Art Space (Wilmington, U.S.), Reflejo de Urbe a Pie (Caguas, Puerto Rico), and Ivory Gallery (Shanghai, China).