Xiner Lan

Vanishing Devised TheatrePerformed at Greenside @George Street Fern Studio2024 Cast:[A]: Xiner Lan[B]: Jess Reed Creative Team:Co-writers: Xiner Lan, Ruby Wang, Cerulean Long, Jess Reed, Jane Su, Emily FritzDirector: Cerulean LongProjection Designer: Jane SuScenic & Prop Designer: Lucy ZhangAssistant Scenic & Prop Designer: Chloe ZhuLighting Designer: Raven ZhanSound Designer: Cerulean LongProduction Manager: Jane SuDramaturg: Tyler Neufeld(Los…

The Grey Brick Interactive InstallationVideo game projected on wood2025 The Grey Brick is an interactive game installation that reimagines bricks as emotional artifacts, carrying traces of urban history and intergenerational memory. The software simulates a nighttime construction site transformed into a playhouse made of plain bricks. The player appears as a ghostly shadow hand and…

Yesterday Made Concrete Interactive Performance 2025 A book turned into a brick, a mom who became a witch, an old song turned into a string of ciphers—or the reversal of every one of them. Yesterday Made Concrete is an exhibition featuring Xiner Lan’s recent work series, including video games, prints, and performances. It is a show about the…

Meet and Chase Lecture Performance2024 In the short lecture performance Meet and Chase, the artist presents a “distance problems” set—a classical series of word problems in the Math Olympiad. During this lesson – taught by a mentally unstable math teacher -, the premises of the four math scenarios gradually merge with unresolvable reality issues. In…

Underwater Paradise Video Game2024 Underwater Paradise is an interactive experience of a journey “sliding” through a haunted waterpark resort.

Run Time Music Video / Original Song4’51”2023 Run Time is an original song written in the musical theater style. The song is accompanied by a musical video with images from the short film Skyhorse Project. In this song, when astronaut Astro Aero committed a free-fall suicide after discovering that their world was an abandoned 3D…

Skyhorse Project Launch Event Lecture Performance26’25”Performed on February 25th, 2023 at RISD Auditorium2023 Skyhorse Project Launch Event is simultaneously a motivational speech, a sermon of a cult, the release of a technology product, and a lecture performance. The artist plays the role of Instance Ren, the representative from Celestial Runtime Regulation, to launch the release…

Skyhorse Project: Training Field Custom Software / 3-channel InstallationMonitor, Projector, LED light, computer, and mouse2023 Training Field is an interactive software from the multi-media Skyhorse Project series. When the virtual humans discovered their world was an abandoned 3D model, they decided to invent their custom deity,’ Skyhorse.’ The program demonstrates the training of one of…