︎

huidi xiang 




home


news 
about 
instagram



selected projects


2024  i made it.
2023  grow oranges together
2023  the ceiling is sweating
2023  when held properly,
2023  villa woodstock
2022  cheese pedestal
2022  model kit card
2022  escaping bird kit
2022  metric system
2022  koala’s march gadgets
2021   playbench in the workground
2021   column on hold
2021   an artist in minecraft
2020  aaaaapple studio
2019   hello kitty is 5 apples tall.
2019   cheese column
2019   the orchestra








latest updated: 07/02/2024
2024 © Huidi Xiang. All Rights Reserved. 






how to be an artist in minecraft

2021

research project and online installation 


This research project is developed during the residency in 2021 at Ender Gallery, which is an exhibition space and artist residency that exists inside the game Minecraft, and manifested as a solo exhibition at the end of residency period.

During my residency time, I created replicas of my artist studio (both physically and in another video game Animal Crossing: New Horizons) and attempted to live a parallel artist life in Minecraft. Taking on the role of an artist-labourer in the game, I also kept a detailed log of my every activity on the server for the residency period, creating a visual data record or ledger for the increasingly overlapping contexts of play and labour in video games - as well as serving to concretize my labour as an artist. 

At the end of the exhibition, I destroyed everything I created during the residency brick and brick in an online performance, titled “the closing studio.” The world does not exist anymore and the sever is not active now. 

A retrospective text about the four exhibitions happened at Ender Gallery is published on BlackFlash Expanded. 



the game log





online exhibition and livestream