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Shuang Xu

Geschiedenis, Ecologie, Diaspora, Design, Community, Artistiek onderzoek, Archieven

Shuang Xu is a multidisciplinary artist, designer, and researcher who explores cultural narratives, situated landscapes, and migrant histories, employing symbolic elements as guides for her research, storytelling, and artistic practices. She critically reflects and disrupts the singularity of perspectives and narratives, particularly in the context of identity, knowledge, and culture. Her recent focus involves connecting non-native and native plants to the earth, humans, and historical contexts. Guided by the belief in situated learning and fieldwork methodology, she cultivates her practice by learning from the surroundings, expressing her research, observations, gatherings, and findings through performance, installation, and graphic forms.

Double Happiness: Participatory Wedding Tea Ceremony at Wereldmuseum Rotterdam for Museum Night 2025
Double Happiness: Participatory Wedding Tea Ceremony at Wereldmuseum Rotterdam for Museum Night 2025 - In collaboration with Chat x Art. In Chinese weddings, the Double Happiness (囍) symbol represents more than the union of two individuals—it signifies the merging of two families. This deep-rooted emphasis on familial bonds is beautifully reflected in the tea ceremony, a cherished tradition where the couple serves tea to their elders as a gesture of gratitude, respect, and unity.
Double Happiness: Participatory Wedding Tea Ceremony at Wereldmuseum Rotterdam for Museum Night 2025
Double Happiness: Participatory Wedding Tea Ceremony at Wereldmuseum Rotterdam for Museum Night 2025 - Within this context of celebration, traditions like the tea ceremony hold a significant place. The tea ceremony, a central ritual in many Chinese weddings, acts as a bridge between generations and families. It's a moment of formal introduction, gratitude, and respect, typically taking place in the family home or a designated ceremonial space. The ceremony involves the bride and groom, together, serving tea to their parents, elders, and sometimes other significant family members. This act is not simply about offering a beverage; it's a deeply symbolic gesture that carries layers of meaning – a formal acknowledgment of the years of care and nurturing the couple has received, a demonstration of filial piety, and a way to solidify the bonds between the two families. The tea itself, often a carefully chosen and prepared blend, can also carry symbolic weight, representing blessings for a sweet and harmonious future. It is within this carefully structured and symbolically rich context that the tea ceremony unfolds, serving as a pivotal moment in the wedding celebrations.
Double Happiness: Participatory Wedding Tea Ceremony at Wereldmuseum Rotterdam for Museum Night 2025
Double Happiness: Participatory Wedding Tea Ceremony at Wereldmuseum Rotterdam for Museum Night 2025 - As part of ”Say Yes“ at Wereldmuseum, an exhibition celebrating diverse wedding traditions and the theme of coming together, this tea ceremony takes on an even broader significance. It becomes a symbol not only of family unity but also of cultural interconnectedness. Just as we honor tradition, we also celebrate the land that nurtures us and the universal human experience of love, commitment, and belonging.
Botanical Islander, research & exhibition, Luchao Kulangsu Art Park
Botanical Islander, research & exhibition, Luchao Kulangsu Art Park, China 2024 - The exhibition is situated on Kulangsu Island, a subtropical island in Southern China that holds UNESCO recognition for its multi-layered history and ecology. The project explores the island's botanical entities, each carrying community tales or site-specific narratives. Through participatory observation methods in ethnography, the exhibition aims to uncover their entanglements and symbiotic relationships with human caretakers or witnesses, portraying them as non-human islanders. From the tree cultivated by teachers and students along the Art Academy (福州大学厦门工艺美术学院) of the island in the 1960s to the mango tree on Yongchun Road where generations once gathered, or the century-old banyan tree nearly felled by a typhoon – the exhibition unveils these ground truths on the island. Adopting a perspective beyond the human, it exhibits a visual narrative that transcends the boundaries between more-than-human species and human existence.
Botanical Islander, research & exhibition, Luchao Kulangsu Art Park
Botanical Islander, research & exhibition, Luchao Kulangsu Art Park, China 2024 - Through research and curation methods such as recording, collecting, harvesting, and printing, the intricate symbiotic ecology between island residents and plants is composed, weaving history and life into a poetic tale of the island.
Botanical Islander, research & exhibition, Luchao Kulangsu Art Park, China 2024
Botanical Islander, research & exhibition, Luchao Kulangsu Art Park, China 2024
Botanical Islander, research & exhibition, Luchao Kulangsu Art Park, China 2024
Botanical Islander, research & exhibition, Luchao Kulangsu Art Park, China 2024
Root Carrier , research & exhibition, William Tweet, Den Bosch, The Netherlands 2023
Root Carrier, research & exhibition, William Tweet, Den Bosch, The Netherlands - The exhibition “Root Carrier Temple” is a research-based exhibition that focuses on the narratives of “non-natives” from ecological and social perspectives. It employs mixed-medium installations as spatial elements and sensory experiences, comprising listening, reading, and smelling to unfold the intertwined travel history of the non-native Asian Artemisia plant species and the Cambodian-Teochew diaspora community, specifically the women who gather at the temple of the 13th arrondissement in Paris.
Root Carrier , research & exhibition, William Tweet, Den Bosch, The Netherlands -
Root Carrier, research & exhibition, William Tweet, Den Bosch, The Netherlands - - The exhibition “Root Carrier Temple” is a research-based exhibition that focuses on the narratives of “non-natives” from ecological and social perspectives. It employs mixed-medium installations as spatial elements and sensory experiences, comprising listening, reading, and smelling to unfold the intertwined travel history of the non-native Asian Artemisia plant species and the Cambodian-Teochew diaspora community, specifically the women who gather at the temple of the 13th arrondissement in Paris. The project took shape after an encounter with Asian Artemisia plant species in the European landscape, followed by the speculated history of their arrival in Europe, notably linked to the 19th-century French occupation of Indochina. The travel path intertwines with the narrative of the Cambodian-Teochew diaspora community in Paris and their family travel tales spanning generations. The research illuminates the complexities of the notion of “non-native,” particularly in the context of migration impacted by the colonial past.
Root Carrier, research & exhibition, William Tweet, Den Bosch, The Netherlands -
Root Carrier, research & exhibition, William Tweet, Den Bosch, The Netherlands -
Root Carrier, research & exhibition, William Tweet, Den Bosch, The Netherlands -
Root Carrier, research & exhibition, William Tweet, Den Bosch, The Netherlands -
The Fish Knows Everything
The Fish Knows Everything Dinner, Dutch Design Week, 2024 - The Fish Knows Everything is a speculative gastronomy project by Katinka Versendaal, building on the __ (dash)Knows Everything platform - a project founded to explore food as a tool for speculating on desirable futures and reflecting on present crises. As an invited food artist, the focus was on five creatures that significantly impact Dutch water systems and ecology, including the crayfish, catfish, eel, and salmon. Through creative processes, their stories were brought to life by crafting tastes and foods, offering a sensorial experience that narrates the species and their environmental impact.
The Fish Knows Everything Dinner, Dutch Design Week, 2024
The Fish Knows Everything Dinner, Dutch Design Week, 2024
The Fish Knows Everything Dinner, Dutch Design Week, 2024
The Fish Knows Everything Dinner, Dutch Design Week, 2024

Root Carrier

Datum:
Locatie: Paris, France
In samenwerking met: Goethe-Institut, Culture Moves Europe,

Double Happiness Tea Ceremony

Datum:
Locatie: Wereldmuseum
In samenwerking met: Wereldmuseum, Cha X Art
https://museumnacht010.nl/en/event/double-happiness-tea-ceremony-cha-x-art/

The Fish Knows Everything

Datum:
Locatie: Eindhoven
In samenwerking met: The___Knows Everything, Dutch Design Week
https://ddw.nl/en/programme/13379/the-fish-knows-everything-dinner-events

Kitchen Lab

Datum:
Locatie: Rotterdam
In samenwerking met: Regina Rotterdam, TU Delft, Nieuwe Instituut

The project focuses on exploring ecologies, situated landscapes, and communities through foraging and cooking as research methods and food presentation as research outcomes. Foraging and cooking serve as practices of recognition and acknowledgment, leading to an understanding of how diverse organisms, such as plants, intersect with political, economic, and cultural dynamics.

https://shuang-xu.com/Cooking
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