Unbound Zine: Xiaomei Going Overseas

Supported by Arts Council England

A surreal and kitschy drag performance mixed with pre-recorded lip-sync style interviews based upon stories of East and Southeast Asian self-publishing underground heroes.

This 30-minute short film premiered at Hoxton Hall on November 8, 2025.

Director: Oyester

Producer: Burong Zeng

Director of Photography: Holli Xue

Trailer: Burong Zeng, Xuanni He

Music: Xuanni He

Charge-Resist-Surrender

@_mapmaking

Inter-college transmedia collaboration between Guildhall School of Music & Drama, Royal College of Art, and Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance, exploring the intersection of music, dance, and moving image.

Visual: Lin Wu

Movements: Suiming

Soundtrack: Xuanni He

the transformative landscapes

2023 Architectural Association, London

A story about Ruby

Director: Yue Cao

Performances: Yuchen Wu

Viola/ Music Production: Xuanni He

Nauda

Music
Composer: Xuanni He
Lyrics: Tu Pham
Producer: Xuanni He
Mixing: Xuanni He & Han Jang
Mastering: Han Jang
Vocal: Tu Pham
GuZheng: Zhuyang Liu

Video
Directed, Produced & Edited by Xuanni He
Photography: Yue Cao, Cheng Zhiyuan
Artwork Design: Xuanni He

I am modifying the Sahara

"I Am Modifying the Sahara" is a 12-day experimental event initiated by Mu. Participants include theatre creator Mu, Da Xiong, dancer Guo Zixing, and musician Xuan Ni. Over the past 12 days, each of them brought a song, a piece of text, a poem, a creation from their own past, an object, a news photo, a painting, along with their sincerity and questions. They collaborated in creation, rehearsals, and live together. During the event, they also interacted with other art groups, took to the streets, and held a poetry night. The event's name, temporarily borrowed from Borges' poem, "I Am Modifying the Sahara," On the final day, they shared the results of this brief "festival" at the Watermelon Theater.

2021 01 06 Fei Gallery, Guangzhou, China

No more practicing

Mu invited me to perform at her closing exhibition. It's not exactly a concert, but she wanted me to demonstrate how I usually practice the violin. I pretended to agree, and named this performance "No More Practice." On the day of the performance, I wore the black concert attire that I usually wear when performing with the symphony orchestra.

I used a saw on stage to physically disassemble a violin. Attached to the violin was a contact microphone that transmitted the noises created by the disassembly to the mixing console. The mixing console, in conjunction with the effects processor, then modulated and outputted the feedback from the noises.

In the end, I picked up the pieces of the violin, which had been cut into fragments, and presented them to Mu as a gift.