The White Stone
Xin Liu
Management, New York
- Title
- The White Stone
- Gallery
- Management, New York
- Year
- 2021
- Duration
- 21 min 57 s
- Format & Technical
Digital Video, 5.1 sound mix or stereo sound
When the rocket lifts off, her body falls. For centuries, humans have built worlds and cities on top of the ruins of the old ones. Now, we are entering an age where civilization is building a world at the highest point from the planet’s surface, the lower Earth orbit. In this film, we postulate a future history of rocket debris abandonment and recovery, through a “hunt” for abandoned rocket debris in remote areas. The protagonist sets off across valleys and villages, and into the desert in the southwest of China, in a search for the debris of rockets fallen since the 1990s. She may find one, or she may never. In this story, the white stone is the fallen body of a rocket. Shifting our gaze from the sky back to the ground, we reexamine the life span of technologies, marking the terrestrial death of an extraterrestrial object.
Stills
in LIU is an artist and engineer. She creates experiences/experiments to take measurements in our personal, social, and technological spaces in a post-metaphysical world: between gravity and homeland, sorrow and the composition of tears, gene sequencing, and astrology. Xin is an artist-in-residence at SETI Institute, an advisor for LACMA Art+Tech Lab, a researcher at Antikythera, Berggren Institute and the founding Arts Curator in the Space Exploration Initiative at MIT Media Lab. Her recent institutional solo exhibitions include Seedings and Offsprings at Pioneer Works, New York, and At the End of Everything at ARTPACE, San Antonio. In 2024, she participated in Rhizome’s flagship program, 7×7 and joined the Chao Center for Asian Studies at Rice University as the first artist-in-residence in the Houston Asian American Archive.
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- Address
- 39 E Broadway 404 Floor 4, 10002, New York, USA
- Phone
- +1 347-494-0438
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- Website
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Management is a contemporary art gallery operating in the heart of New York’s Chinatown since October 2021. The gallery represents a diverse roster of emerging artists and is committed to presenting ambitious and original exhibitions that challenge and complicate dominant trends and discourses within contemporary art.