XINDI SUN
CONTACTS :
Phone : +44 7467 145797
Email : xindisun2000@gmail.com
Instagram : @_xindisun
Location : London, United Kingdom
RESEARCH PROFILE:
My research is situated at the intersection of feminist art practice, spatial practice, and Chinese and East Asian queer-feminist cultures. I investigate how embodied experiences that existing language and social categories only partially capture—intimacy, shame, ageing, care and relational power—become public feminist knowledge in Chinese and East Asian contexts. Guided by an ethics of representation, my work resists turning lived experience into spectacle or transparent information. Trained across architecture and communication, I approach these experiences as spatial and material questions as much as social ones. My doctoral research asks how artistic practice can generate new feminist concepts and forms of public understanding as computational systems increasingly reshape how embodied experience becomes publicly intelligible.
RESEARCH AREAS
• Practice-led research, Practice as Research (PaR), and feminist epistemology
• Embodiment, affect, feminist body politics, and desexualisation
• Queer intimacy, non-normative relationships, and BDSM as a critical framework for analysing power
• Testimony, embodied memory, oral history, and participatory archiving
• Care, kinship, feminist ethics, and reproductive labour
• Feminist spatial politics, ecofeminism, and material politics
• Chinese and East Asian feminist and queer cultures in transnational contexts
• Performance, stand-up comedy, and performative public discourse as critical practice
• Curatorial practice, public pedagogy, and feminist counter-publics
• Digital dissemination, decentralised feminist publics, self-media, and knowledge infrastructures
RESEARCH METHODS
• Practice-led Research / Practice as Research (PaR)
• Research through Design
• Testimony collection, oral history and participatory archiving
• Material experimentation and critical making
• Performance as Research and behavioural workshops
• Curatorial research and public engagement
• Autoethnographic and embodied inquiry
• Spatial research and critical representation