Wenxuan Xue (any/they) is a Boston-based interdisciplinary artist, performance curator, and PhD candidate in Theatre and Performance Studies at Tufts University. They create ritual performances weaving in chanting, spoken-word, and communal participation towards collective remembrance. Their artistic practice is guided by grief work that disorients conditions of compulsory forgetting—of one’s own ancestral and spiritual lineages, queer kinships, and abundant relations to the earth.

Their dissertation project Ancestral Fabulation: Queer Returns and Asian/American Lineage Work attends to how femme/queer/trans Asian North American artists return to, mythologize, and imagine their ancestry through contemporary place-based performance practices. Their scholarship has been supported by Tufts University Tisch Library and the Center for Black, Brown, and Queer Studies (BBQ+) academic fellowship.

Their artistic practice has been stewarded by New England Foundation for the Arts, CHUANG Stage, Company One, The Orchard Project, The Lark Play Development Center, and ArtsEmerson. Their writing appears or is forthcoming in the Routledge anthology of Applied Theatre and Racial Justice: Radical Imaginings for Just Communities and Tufts University Art Galleries’ “an archive and/or a repertoire” exhibition brochure.