Profile
Xu Binghuang is a curator, writer, and researcher based in China (People's Republic of). Her practice focuses on ecological and socially-engaged art through transdisciplinary collaboration. She co-runs “Making Space” in Guangzhou.
In recent years, she has curated several projects that put effort into overlooked places, dialects, and alternative education, such as the “Xiang Li Lao Re”, an open-call project that seeks voices from the countryside, and the “Family History Programme, which addresses “family history” as a method to critique and re-create the structure of history and society. She also participated in the “Heavy Metal Country Tour”, initiated by Nut Brother, a project that desired to reveal the heavy metal pollution problem in the countryside, and the “Re-Farming”, initiated by You Piao, a project that researched into various aspects of the current situation of the villages through re-farming and artworks.
She was the panelist of "Environmental Justice in China" at Brown University and the speaker of "Overlooked Cities in Asia" at Urban Studies Foundation Seminar Series in Bandung, Indonesia. She was the recipient of the Connections Through Culture grant by British Council, and Reconnecting: Artmaking and Mobility by esea contemporary and British Council. She also participated in Creating Futures: Art of Narrative at Salzburg Global in Austria.
