Pacific Northwest College of Art and the LRVS program are thrilled to welcome visiting artist Salty Xi Jie Ng for a lecture on her work and practice.
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Salty Xi Jie Ng is an artist, performer, researcher, educator, akashic records practitioner, and diasporic body from the tropical metropolis of Singapore, with ancestry tracing to southern China. Guided by the mantic and divinatory, her transdisciplinary practice is an alchemical site in collaboration with people and the interdimensional, intimate vernacular. In hopes of uncovering hidden selves and histories in kinship with the other-than-human, she tends to the erotic, ancestry, ageing, the inner worlds of older women, the end-of-life, and relationships with the departed and spirit worlds, while examining what gets to be called art.
Her practice proposes a collective re-imagining through humour, subversion, discomfort, institutional critique, a celebration of the eccentric, and a commitment to the deeply personal. She has developed a playful, provocative and tender spectrum of work across cultures and contexts internationally, in forms like ritual, gathering, community space, durational process, brief encounter, co-created meal, video, installation, writing, conversation, meditation, publication and score. Salty is the 2024 recipient of the Chamberlain Award for social practice artists from the Headlands Centre for the Arts, and the 2025 Arts Research Scholar-in-Residence at the Nanyang Academy of Fine Art - University of the Arts Singapore. She studies butoh, qigong and is attaining certification from the Centre for Deep Listening.
saltythunder.net
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FREE and OPEN TO THE PUBLIC!
Pacific Northwest College of Art
In the first-floor Mediatheque
511 NW Broadway, Portland, OR 97209
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