The Sail From The Red Sea - Sichong Xie
Sichong Xie ( China, United States )
The durational performance/site-specific installation "The Sail From The Red Sea" in conjunction with Sichong Xie's new project at that time in progress, "Nomadic Scaffold" featured an array of objects and movements - scaffolding, industrial privacy screen, sailboat cloth, and a performative lecture based on gendered labor and invisible labor - through which she reimagined the architectural drawing her grandfather created in late 1950s. In this project, Xie drew attention to invisible labor behind each architecture or institution by incorporating an industrial privacy screen throughout the installation as a way of repurposing a mass-produced material that is commonly used between construction zones and industrial sites. Sailboat as a symbolic for (im)migration, nomadic and searching for a way to be, drawing attention to the notions of “borders” and “borderlands” that expanded the contemporary perceptions of political divisory geographic lines.
