Description
Adelle Lin Yingxi is an artist and technologist working across performance, calligraphy,
installation, and embodied research. Drawing from multiple cultural lineages, her work
explores multilingual writing, ritual, memory, and inherited forms. She uses movement and
contemporary technologies to examine how language changes through embodiment and
how cultural memory is carried across bodies, places, and generations. Her practice moves
between physical and digital environments, often translating ephemeral gestures into
objects, images, and spatial experiences. Lin has presented work internationally across art,
technology, and performance contexts, and is based in New York, with an ongoing practice
connected to Malaysia.
My practice explores how writing, movement, and contemporary technologies can become forms of embodied memory. I often work with calligraphy as more than written language, treating the gesture of writing as a spatial and physical act that can be translated across bodies, natural materials, and digital environments. Through this process, I am interested in what changes when language moves between forms, and what traces remain.
Two of the prints emerge from Ephemeral Writing, an ongoing performance collaboration with sound artist Maria Thran. In the performance, I use motion tracking to transform my body into a virtual brush, allowing movement to produce calligraphic traces in three- dimensional space. Maria responds through sound, creating a dialogue in which marks and gestures accumulate, disappear, and reshape the environment around us. Another print in the series comes from I Dreamed Of A River, an ongoing performance-documentary project in which multilingual calligraphy, movement, and scanned landscapes are brought into dialogue.
Across the works, I select moments from digital performance environments and translate them into fabric prints. Removed from the moving body and suspended as still images, these traces become artifacts of ephemeral encounters, asking how gesture can continue to carry memory after the body has moved on, and how digital residue can take on new material life.