Feixuan Xu is a London-based anthropologist and writer. Feixuan’s research addresses art, multispecies ethnography and ecocriticism. She obtained a PhD in Creative Media from City University of Hong Kong (2022), where her thesis analysed the Daoist notion of ziran in Liang Shaoji’s collaborations with silkworms, farmers and biologists. Feixuan examines labour, sensory knowledge and situated ethics in multispecies art, has edited educational materials for the Shanghai Museum and publishes in journals on multispecies studies. She previously received a Fulbright Research Scholar Award (2019-20) at New York University and holds an MA in Socio-cultural Anthropology from Durham University.
Feixuan Xu was the 2022 Asymmetry Postdoctoral Fellow in Chinese and Sinophone Contemporary Art at the Courtauld Institute of Art.