RUYUN  XIAO


Ruyun Xiao is an artist, writer, researcher, exhibition designer, and illustrator from China. She explores the concept of bodily knowledge through performative form. Her imaginative process embodies herself in first-person memories, stories, and myths. She produces frameworks, and instruments to choreograph experiences of the unknown. Using writing as the foundation, she engages with performance, design, publication, and sound to communicate sensorium ways of knowing and unknowing.

Xiao is currently based in London, United Kingdom. She recently graduated from the Critical Curatorial Cybernetics research master program at Haute école d’art et de design(HEAD), Geneva, Switzerland. She worked as a 2D designer at Ralph Appelbaum Associates in New York City for six years. She received an MFA in Communications Design from Pratt Institute in 2018, a Post-Baccalaureate Certificate from the Maryland Institute College of Arts in 2016, and a BA in Advertising from the Beijing University of Technology in 2015.

performances, exhibitions
Design
 Writing, Publishing




Institute of the Planet Earth

2018
Virtual Reality Experience
Institute of the Planet Earth is designed as a Virtual Reality experience based on one of the exhibitions in the American Museum of Natural History (AMNH). The purpose of this experience is to critique the museum’s capitalist institutional structure. The capitalism structure both supports and fractures human epistemology inside the institution, while constantly politicizing nature and impacting planet earth.