Bio/Statement:
煦 (Susie Zhu, or 9) is a multi-hyphenated artist-poet and a listener for all the “smaller deaths” in contemporary life, born in China, raised by the internet and currently working nomadically in 3 cities—Beijing (CN), Tokyo (JP), NYC (US). She received her dual degrees at Brown University (Literary Arts, BA [Hons]) and Rhode Island School of Design (Printmaking, BFA [Hons]) through the highly selective Brown RISD Dual Degree program.
Her primary creative language is question marks and conditionals. She studies traces of spirituality in our most subtle perceptions on being and time, manifested often in intimate forms as emotion and intuition. She contemplates and searches for ways to re-embodying them in a contemporary context. Her works are poetic inquiries into “how we could reunion in profound feelings and regain belief in this time that prioritizes efficiency” and sincere practices of her own tentative answers.
Each of her works could be seen as a tiny ceremonial ritual reinvented exclusively for the subject matter, often manifesting in the form of a chorus of multiple timebase or spatial medium, including but not limited to: sound, video, performance, installations, writings, workshops and printed matters. She attempts to offer experiences that transcends reasoning and persistently pursuits the potential for an alternative therapy that cures not, rather, embraces the unresolved.
She is the recipient of Accent Accent International Poetry Award for Emerging Voice, Frances Mason Harris ’26 Prize for book-length manuscript of poetry and prose, Kim Ann Arstark Memorial Award and Robert Reid Award Fellowship. She is the chief editor of Clerestory Journal of the Arts and the founder of Butter*Rabbit*Press; she is also the author of 9 artist’s books and 5 books of poetry and experimental writing; her works have been published and exhibited around the world.
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个人简介
煦 (Susie Zhu, 或 9) ，尝试⽤任何物质写诗的跨媒介艺术家-诗⼈，以及游离在当代生活中“微小的死亡们”的倾听者。她出⽣于中国，在互联⽹长大，在美国的布朗⼤学和罗德岛设计学院双学位项⽬（Brown RISD Dual Degree）取得了Literary Arts(创意写作)与Printmaking (版画) 的两个荣誉学士学位。⽬前她像持续⾼烧的虚弱流浪者往复于北京，东京和纽约几地之间。
她思考在生产力优先的当代社会⼈们如何重新感知，信仰，如何团圆，如何提问⽽不回答，如何拥抱精神性与无。通过结合多种新媒体技术与原始的材料，她做最反消歧义的，⼴义上的“书”——包括但不限于书，装置，⾏为，影像，声⾳，工作坊等——邀请人们阅读，沉思，并短暂停歇于模糊和矛盾被允许的另一种时空。
近期她的创作实验专注于捕捉“感到某种微小的死亡”的情绪化瞬间及其内在体验，通过将神秘学的仪式等诸多模型引入既存创作媒体的语境中（如祭坛-装置，占卜-互动行为，经文-艺术家书等）为这些被当代生活的“生的过饱和”推至边缘的，诗意而转瞬即逝的“死亡体验”重新赋予属于它们各自的新祭葬形式——这也是她向修复集体意识中的生/死，感性/理性，积极/消极等不平衡做出的一个小尝试：她坚持寻找不已痊愈为目的新型疗愈方法论的可能性。
煦是9本艺术家书,1本出版诗集和4本⾃出版物的作者，2022年重⾳国际诗歌奖新声⾳奖⾸奖，2020年和2023年Frances Mason Harris’26 Prize for Creative Book-Length Manuscripts和2023年Kim Ann Arstark Memorial Award的获奖者，⽂学艺术期刊Clerestory Journal of the Arts的主编，线上写作沙龙SPEAKEASY（共22期，进行中）的策划及主持，以及butter*rabbit*press(⻩油兔独⽴出版)的主理⼈。 她的作品曾在美国，意大利，法国，英国，中国等地展出和出版。