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02/10/2019 Human 人 -Little white flower Live performance @ilminmuseumofart📸 @jamiebakerphotography 1997, I was 14years old. I had my first article published on national newspaper. I passionately wrote my grief for the death of DengXiaoPing. Sorrow is a strange thing when you see everyone around you was crying, tv channel was playing funeral songs, over over […]

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Xie Rong: Sea Durational performance Saturday 19.10. between 13-16 Wäinö Aaltonen Museum of Art, Itäinen Rantakatu 38 As part of Wäinö Aaltonen Museum’s When Is Now -exhibition   Programme 2019 Friday 18.10.2019 WHEN WHAT INFO WHERE 18:00  Panu Pihkala: Earth Emotions  Performance lecture  Viinatehdas MANILLA 19:15  Leena Kela: Space Here We Come  Performance lecture  MANILLA […]

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Body of Work

Body of Work Interview by Jing Zhang Published on Aug of 2019 Prestige Magazine

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Echoes from Jeju Island

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52 ARTISTS 52 ACTIONS book launch

  In a year of Instagramming dangerously, 52 artists respond to critical issues across the broader Asia region. Description The mainstream media keeps us in a constant state of emergency where the word ‘crisis’ is used daily and ‘breaking news’ is a permanent banner across our screens. The real emergencies we should be facing are […]

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PAINTING UNTIL IT BECOMES MARBLE

XIE RONG PERFORMS YOKO ONO’S PAINTING UNTIL IT BECOMES MARBLE Leipzig, Germany – May 2019 Museum der bildenden Künste Leipzig By Madeline Bocaro © Watch the performance video: Following her intense performance of Yoko Ono’s Cut Piece (as Echo Morgan) at the Peace Is Power exhibition in Leipzig (April 2019), the amazing artist Xie Rong performed […]

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Stone and Light

  XIE RONG – STONE AND LIGHT    By Madeline Bocaro © Xie Rong performs her new works: Story of the Stone/ To Reach the Light (inspired by Yoko Ono)  at Yoko Ono: Peace Is Power exhibition @mdbkleipzig in Leipzig Germany May 11, 2019. Watch the performance videos:   Story of the Stone This work by […]

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My Cut Piece

Cut piece ✂️ Last night, I performed my “One Woman Show”. It is a title that borrowed from Yoko Ono’s MoMA’s exhibition in 2015. It was my 5th performance piece that responded to Yoko’s work. This morning, tiredly woke up from sore muscles. I watched the video of Theresa May’s resign speech. Her usually steely […]

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Cut Piece_interview

April 9, 2019 XIE RONG (ECHO MORGAN) PERFORMS YOKO ONO’S CUT PIECE @ Yoko Ono: Peace Is Power exhibition 2019 Museum der bildenden Künste Leipzig By Madeline Bocaro ©   I had a wonderful chat with artist Echo Morgan about her performance. Yoko requested that Cut Piece be performed at the opening of her Peace […]

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Yoko Ono and I

Yoko Ono and I in 2009, Notting Hill Gate, Feathers Boutique Cut Piece ✂️ I made a promise to myself not to participate in other artist’s work; not to react someone els’s performance after a heartfelt and inspiring conversation with John Court in Beijing. When Alfred Weidinger, the director of the Museum of Fine arts […]

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Fire of Yi People

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Body Calligraphy: The Performance Work of Echo Morgan _ By Luise Guest

  Body Calligraphy: The Performance Work of Echo Morgan Echo Morgan is the English name of Xie Rong, a Chengdu-born, London-based, multi-disciplinary artist whose work is underpinned by a dark family story. She works with stereotypes of ‘Chineseness’ and femininity in order to subvert them. Morgan has written texts on her skin using red lipstick, black Chinese […]

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The Body is Cultural – Xie Rong’s Home at Galerie Huit Hong Kong

    The Body is Cultural – Xie Rong’s Home at Galerie Huit Hong Kong Galerie Huitis currently exhibiting the debut solo show in Hong Kong of the Chinese multi-disciplinary artist Xie Rong, otherwise known as Echo Morgan. Rong was born in the southwest province of ChengDu, China in 1983 and has lived and worked […]

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You have my blood in you

Watch Xie Rong’s  “Home” Performance online:  

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Art China_Interview_by Meng Yuan

Xie Rong x Echo Morgan – After her divorce in the UK, a petite Sichuan girl started her five-years performance art journey. Art China · Meng Yuan | 2016-11-03 17:20 The first “Beijing·Live” International Performance Art Festival was held from October 15th to 23rd, 2016. More than 30 performance artists from 13 countries presented performance […]

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Live Action 11 Gothenburg

Watch Live Performance “Mother” online: Since my father passed away two years ago I found impossible to make live art, he was the drive, the inspirations for my action art. My straggled soul found huge peace, hope and happiness in daily life of caring my boys. But I have missed so much of the honesty, […]

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Shanghai rouge

Shanghai rouge 💄 Shang hai  Yun contemporary art center, Conjunctively Evolving – Masters of Contemporary Art in China and Britain,  ( 02/07 – 08/08 2016). Curated by Jian Zhou,  li liu and Yichen Zhang.  

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Label magazine cover

I am delighted to be the cover of Label Magazine. Published in Poland distributed in Europe and NYC. Mono Print on digital photo. collaboration with Jamie Baker. Break the Vase 2012

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Performance Art | Echo Morgan’s Darkness is Undressed in Heartbreaking Performance

Performance Art | Echo Morgan’s Darkness is Undressed in Heartbreaking Performance Drawing on her volatile personal history as a child growing up in China, Echo Morgan, whose real name Xie Rong, creates devastatingly emotional performance art. One piece titled Be the Inside of the Vase performed in 2012 at The Royal College of Art in […]

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Touching Happiness

Touching Happiness Photography by Jamie Baker 3 hours, 04/01/2014 @ CiYun Taoism Temple, XiaoZhou Village, GuangZhou I was 24 weeks pregnant on the 4th of Jan 2014. I blew 200 balloons in duration of 3 hours. Audience are encouraged to take away of the red balloons as sign of sharing happiness. The audience were also […]

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Grey Collective at Offline Art Fair

Grey Collective at Offline Art Fair Thur 28th Nov – Sun 1st Dec Embassy Tea Rooms, Union Street, SE1 OL  

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Multiplied Artfair at Christie’s

16 October 2013 – Printmaking graduates from the Royal College of Art will show for a second year at auction house Christie’sMultiplied editions art fair. This year RCA graduates will feature in the main body of the event. Echo Morgan, Catriona Leahy, Frank Leauver, Nicola Thomas and Marianne Keating are among the Printmaking graduates, who will exhibit […]

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jade-buddha_my-precious

Jade Buddha Photography by Roland-von-der-Emden,Yau Wen and Kovács István 3 hours, 13 . 09 . 2013 @ Sète, outdoor flea market During Cultural Revolution red guards cut off Buddha heads from the temple to destroy the tradition, religion and history. My father’s antique passion is collecting jade and Buddha head. Bankrupted and lonely, he brushes […]

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Sete Warrior

Sete Warrior Live Performance Photography by Roland-von-der-Emden and Yau Wen 3 Hours Lipsticks, sete traditional water jousting shield and jousting pole, white French girl’s outfit @Sete, Infr’action,14.09.2013 My uncle used to call me the Don Quixote. I was excited to discover the famous sport in Sete: Water Jousting and noticed it’s a game for boys only. […]

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Chinese Zezette

Chinese Zezette Photography by Roland-von-der-Emden,Yau Wen and Kovács István 3 hours, 13 . 09 . 2013 @ Sète, outdoor market ZeZette (traditional cookie from Sète,France) I ate the first fortune cookie when I arrived in London. It’s a Chinese symbol created by American consumerism but not popular in Mainland China. Shaped like the folded version […]

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Chicken Soup

Chicken Soup Live Performance 30 min, Photography by Roland-von-der-Emden, Joachim Axelsson and Yau Wen Live chicken, tent, soup, knife, and 10 min film projection @Sete, Infr’action12.09.2013 My mum was born at the Chinese year of rooster, she has a scar like the shape of a rooster. She always describes herself as the elegant proud animal. […]

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Taped morning exercise

Taped morning exercise Photography by Roland-von-der-Emden, Vincent Campos and Bjorn Veno 2 hours, 11 . 09 . 2013 @ Sète, outdoor market Be persistent in training! Strengthen our bodies! Study diligently! Serve our motherland! Radio gymnastic exercise (Guangbo Ticao ????) is part of the school curriculum in most primary (age 6-11) and secondary (age 12-17) […]

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Brushing Jade_Father’s Jade

Performance by Echo Morgan, 17. 09 . 2013 @ Sumarria Lunn Gallery, Live Performance: 1 Hours waxed huddha head and bodysuit, tight rope, toothbrushes, 10 min film projection on loop @Sumarria Lunn Gallery, 17.09.2013. At the Closing evening of Tightrope, I performed the final part of my performance: Brushing Jade: Father’s Jade. I wore a […]

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Jade Buddha

Brushing Jade: Jade Buddha Live Performance 3 Hours, Photography by Paul Neave Scaffolding, safety net,waxed buddha head, brush, body @Sumarria Lunn Gallery, 05.09.2013 At the private view of Tightrope, I performed the first part of my performance: Brushing Jade: Jade Buddha I wore a waxed buddha head, stood silently inside a scaffolding structure. My body […]

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Brushing Jade

 ” He brushes his jade day and night, the only time he would look or talk to me was when I proposed to brush his jade with him ”  Closing Evening : 17th September 7-8pm with performance by Echo Morgan Exhibition runs: 6th September to 17th September 2013 / 11am – 6pm (Tuesday to Friday) / 12 – 5pm (Saturday) Sumarria Lunn […]

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Echo’s Infr’Action

Entering its ninth year of existence Infr’Action will take place from September 11th to 15th in the public space of Sète and at the city’s own beautiful Musée Paul Valéry. Five days, five performances. It’s all about action. Follow me on instagram for all my working in progress : )  

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Changing Face

Changing face?? 15 min presentation for my final exam at Royal College of Art I borrowed the gesture and name of Changing face?? which is an ancient Chinese dramatic art that is part of the Sichuan opera. Performers wear vividly coloured masks, typically depicting well known characters from the opera, which they change from one […]

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A New Memorial-film

     A New Memorial The politics of the family tree Multimedia Installation Scaffolding, open frame industrial monitors, films 2meter x 2meter Royal College of Art Show RCA2013 A Pai Fang ?? is a traditional style of Chinese arch, a historically popular monument that celebrates important family members and achievements. The most famous are “Virgin […]

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Tightrope

Opening: 5th September 6-9pm with performance by Echo Morgan Exhibition runs: 6th September to 17th September 2013 / 11am – 6pm (Tuesday to Friday) / 12 – 5pm (Saturday) Sumarria Lunn Gallery 36 South Molton Lane London W1K 5AB Takming Chuang, Echo Morgan, Emily Speed and Hanae Utamura: Tightrope Curated by Kate Pantling, Tightrope brings together the work of four international emerging artists Takming Chuang, […]

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Echo at Christie’s

  Echo at Christie’s  21st Centuary Art & Design Selected Works from the RCA Degree Show 2013 9th-12th July, Christie’s, King Street Gallery, 8 King Street, St. James’s, SW1Y 6QT Four of my portraits from Performative Body series were selected! Performative Body Photography by Jamie Baker , 2012 – 2013 Be the Inside of the Vase , 2012  Born […]

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Be the Inside of the Vase_Live Performance

Be the Inside of the Vase Photography by Jamie Baker Live Performance, 4 hours @Royal College of Art 25.04.2012 Clay, body paint, Chinese tissue paper, willow sculpture, audio In China, people give a life size Vase as a gift for the opening of a new building, a new business. 25th of April 2012, At the […]

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Root Print 根印

  R oot Print by Echo Morgan ( ??? Lecture at Sichuan Art Academy 28th of March 2013 First time gave presentation about my work in Chinese! very exciting and memorable experience , presentation details will be follow in future post : )

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Sauce, Riceballs, Your Choice

Sauce, Riceballs, Your choice Photography by Jamie Baker 3 hours, 09 . 03 . 2013 @ café Gallery Three Cannon Balls (traditional dish from Chengdu, China) My head and two heads are covered by glutinous rice that sculptured as balls, There are three bows of sauce: soybean powder, Chinese red sugar and sesame seeds. Each […]

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Notes to Self

? ? ? ? ? ? “Inscription – The Crude House” by Liu Yu Xi ? ? ? ??? ? ? ?? It matters not the height; if an immortal resides in a mountain it becomes famous. ? ? ? ??? ? ? ?? It matters not the depth; if a dragon lives in a […]

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Little Red Flower

Opens at London Print Studio Three digital prints on archive paper, film: It was a staged performance, also a short film with personal narrative. I grew up in China until 19 years old, my early communist education and China’s economic boom has deeply embodied in my roots. They still strongly control my thoughts and behaviour. […]

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Films showing at The Royal Standard

    The Royal Standard in collaboration with Drawing Paper and Liverpool Biennial present a one-day experimental event exploring the relationship between sound, performance and drawing. It will screening my films:    

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Singing Mermaid

It is a performance influenced by Greek mythology Echo and Narcissus, western fairytales Little Mermaid and Chinese legend Carp Jumps Over the Dragon Gate.I invited audiences to taping my legs,this performance transforms my body into a sculpture. My name is Echo, I don’t have a voice, I can only repeat other’s words, You can give […]

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Balls of Steel_Live Performance

Balls of Steel Live Performance, 4 hours Photography by Jamie Baker 04.10. 2012 @ Blackall Studios People always say that I have balls. I am a tiny Chinese girl, hair doesn’t even grow much on me. But apparently I have balls. Big heavy balls. The empire of china cut off the male servant’s balls so […]

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Reincarnation

Reincarnation 15th September – 24th November 2012 I transformed the surface of my entire body into a Ming vase for an art work called I Am the Four Gentlemen . Through the mediums of performance and film, I explore the intrinsic and complex relationship between violence, beauty, and vulnerability, re-examining how these antipodal constructs impact ideas of […]

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Film on Vimeo: Be the Inside of the Vase

  Performance by Echo Morgan Photography by Jamie Baker The performance ‘Be the Inside of the Vase’ was divided into two parts. The first story began with my father’s attempt to commit suicide. The performance revealed my uneasy childhood and difficult relationship with my father. I was still and silent whilst my voice revealed the […]

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You Are My Mirror

July 1st, 2012 Song Dong said to me, “You and your art are now embodied, I can not separated you from your art, let your personal story grow, use your individual voice to tell the larger history. It’s moving and powerful, you are my mirror.”  I met SongDong in 2006 when I was working for Selfridge’s 3D Creative team, […]

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Xie Rong & Echo Morgan

My birth name is Xie Rong. A family name from my granny Xie and a given name from my mum; both of whom eventually divorced. I felt, I carried two single mothers on my shoulders. I am Rong ‘?’ the confederate rose, I grew up in tears. In 2000 I began to use the name […]

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Sleeping Russia

Sleeping Russia Live Performance 10 min Photography by Jamie Baker 2011 @ St Petersburg A land not mine, still forever memorable, the waters of its ocean chill and fresh. Sand on the bottom whiter than chalk, and the air drunk, like wine, late sun lays bare the rosy limbs of the pinetrees. Sunset in the […]

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Kensington Palace Press

Echo Morgan in ‘Dress of the World’ Enchanted Palace‘ exhibition at Kensington Palace has  attracted widespread praise. Exploring the lives of the seven princesses who once resided there through ingenious installations in the state rooms, the exhibition will have you wandering spellbound through the palace and will make you look at the lives of these […]

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