1. Take Me to the Sea
2. Melancholy Play
3. Legally Blonde
4. Reframing Representation
5. Narcissus & Echo
6. Closest Thing to God
TAKE ME TO THE SEA
Projection Assets, Direction, Video & Music production by Arete Xu
Choreographed and Performed by Jessica Zhang
Made with Touch Designer, Madmapper, Adobe Premiere, Logic Pro
MELANCHOLY PLAY
Set design and fabrication for Brown University Production Workshop, Granoff Center Fishman Studio
Directed by Zoe Redlich , Book by Sarah Ruhl
Luan, plywood, 2”x3” framing studs, laser-cut velum sheets
Design modeled in Rhino
REFRAMING
REPRESENTATION
Feburary 2025
Exhibition Design and Build for student-curated show Reframing Representation, class instructed by Adam Thabo.
When looking at artwork “Do we see the real world, or do we just see a representation of it?” This is a question Magritte often poses in his consistent representations of windows, do we see the outside world or the work of one man’s perception of the outside world. The exhibition “Reframing Representation” asks this question of the artist, prompting an introspective look into how we express our own illusory perceptions of the world in unique representations and reconfigurations of the window.
2”x4” Framing Studs, Salvaged Windows
Concept modelled in Rhino and rendered with Keyshot, Elevations drawn in Autocad
CLOSEST THING TO GOD
2024
The work asks viewers to consider the ties between surveillance technologies in museums and the sacred, the irony of divine all-seeing entities monitored by God-like technology. Is there a moment where these pieces can escape it’s gaze? And as audiences, forced to perform respectability, does this take away from our devotion or connection? We follow ghostly traces, burdened by the grief of not being able to form deeper intimacies with these pieces, with these beings.
filmed by Christina Daly & Arete Xu
edited by Zaryah Qareeb & Arete Xu
Made with Touch Designer, Madmapper
KAIROS: A TIMELESS MYTH
Original Music and Book by Arete Xu & Waverly Huang
Performed May 9-10th 2024 at Brown University
Performed May 9-10th 2024 at Brown University
NARCISSUS & ECHO
Projection for Brown’s Fermata composers club concert 2024.
Music composed by Nathan Wintono, James Barrie
Yulianna Mendez-Yaxon, flute
Abby Jones, oboe
Valentin Garcia, clarinet
Matt Sharin, cello