
CHICAGO · MMXXVI
Yaxuan LI is currently an MFA candidate in Performance at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.
An indeterminate substance composed of liquid and fire.
She attunes to collapse spontaneous order of unperceived (ancient/ancestral) wisdom. The force seeks to invoke amorphous matter into presence.
Moving across eclipse, smellscape, biopower, tantra, and the poetics of the supernatural, interweaving what she is summoning “ oracular gestures ”, a choreography of embodied divination.
The undercurrent traces and channels non-human phenomena – like dust, salt, hurricane—sculpting them based in her inner resonance, in tidalectic trance.
Within a cross-disciplinary matrix, she precipitates a scent of threshold field of perception—a pre-linguistic sensory terrain, where water acts as archaeological memory, and climatic drift along mythic time.
Guided by psychic geology as an epistemological source, introspective cosmologies of spiritual universe - until numinous reconfiguration of nature rooted to willpower.
The being dissolves and transforms states of imbalance, instinct-driven ecologies into primordial growth,unfolds transcorporeality through healing (?) processes,as it is evolving urferaqua — a planetary mythopoetics.