I am a Uyghur American scholar and artist.
My work is interdisciplinary, spanning across the mediums of sculpture, installation, performance, and the written word. More recently, this has begun to focus on the use of sound and the moving image.
Having grown up between the borderlands of the Uyghur homeland, broader Central Asia, and the midwestern United States, interrogations of belonging, home, and displacement influence the nature of my work. I have been particularly interested in exploring the somatic experiences of memory, interrogating delineations of (dis)embodied identity, and excavations of collective consciousness through ancestral landscapes.
- Institution: Universite Libre de Bruxelles
- Other work role: PhD researcher focusing on Uyghur artistic production in the diaspora