01/07/2023
Meet Salty Xi Jie, one of our two candidates for the Asia Pacific Exchange Programme; a new collaborative multi-year programme with Taipei Artist Village and Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts.
Salty Xi Jie Ng is an artist and educator from the tropical metropolis of Singapore. She co-creates semi-fictional paradigms for the real and imagined lives of humans within the poetics of the interdimensional intimate vernacular.
Often playing with relational possibilities, her transdisciplinary practice proposes a collective re-imagining through humour, care, subversion, discomfort, institutional critique, a celebration of the eccentric, and a commitment to the deeply personal, in hopes of uncovering hidden selves and histories in kinship with the other-than-human. The work she has developed across cultures and contexts dances across forms like durational site-specific project, brief one-on-one encounter, co-created meals, performances, films, conversations, publications, and community space.
A cosmic scholar, her practice is currently concerned with ancestry, interdimensional/interbeing relationing, eroticism, death, and ageing, while questioning who artists are and what gets to be called art. Salty has an MFA in art and social practice from Portland State University.
We wish Salty a fruitful time during her time with TAV!
Check out Xi Jie’s works here:
| http://www.saltythunder.net
More about TAV: | https://www.artistvillage.org/
