Yining Chi 池

just made a lil silly website for myself! check it out (link in bio) :^) i’ll keep upcoming performances updated in the MOVING BODY section. best part of making it was documenting some old events that quietly disappeared…to make an archive is to create a body👁️

sand got into my camera after the second day, broke it again, and then so many more stories happened outside the frame

✨Applications for Field Funds: Accessibility & Translation are currently open through January 31! This cycle is intended to support practitioners in increasing the accessibility of their projects and practices, from hiring ASL and language interpreters to providing accessible transportation, physical access modifications, and Covid testing supplies for programs and events. 🎟️ 😷 Previously, Field Funds: Accessibility & Translation supported artist Yining Chi @this1s_chi to consult access providers on bilingual open captions (with sound captions) and audio description, as well as provide food and masks for a work-in-progress screening of her film Intimacy Violation at Come Forever, a social space and mutual aid hub for cross-accessible contact in Brooklyn. ➡️ Yining Chi (she/they) is an art-maker, mover, and researcher from Beijing, China, currently based in New York City. Her work focuses on the material body and its visual rhetorics within collective emotional states. Their video essay Intimacy Violation is both a social critique and a deeply personal memoir dedicated to the artist’s mother, dwelling at the intersection of disability, kinship, and trust and documenting her lived experience with illness and our shared relations of care. ❤️‍🩹 Photos by Narelle Zhao. Image description in comments, alt text embedded.

i got caught in a trance zZ ✛ rehearsal & performance pics of slow violence p1,2,4 by izzy, p3 by brennan

i saw some religious stuff, glowing sunshine, and a shooting star in texas

going through all the rehearsal footage with laura and realizing my fav position is apparently sticking my head between my legs and hugging them like a 🥨 (upcoming free show: slow violence, 9/14 @ 6bc botanical garden. izzy’s installation from 12-7 pm, with performances at 1, 2, & 3 pm)

this july i’ve been in the shapes of bird/volcano · 1-2 during rehearsals at the woods, film pic by @izzyleung 3-7 swan song with @laurawitsken @izzyleung & cullan, pics by @patriziamessineophoto @angelofiore.xyz @jizzyjtizzy 8-12, we have to do this before we can do anything else with @frump.chump @schul.mmm @justine__florence , pics by @phinn.with.an.f 🪽🪼

next week @creaturespacenyc / tix in bio / 'don't you need to explode ?' = we have to do this before we can do anything else by @frump.chump and movements by @this1s_chi + @justine__florence

SWAN SONG - JULY 12 2025 installation / performance, just this one summer eve for now🪽 SWAN SONG is a collaboration of Izzy Leung and Laura Witsken with Yining Chi and Cullan Powers at The Woods (Ridgewood, Queens) tickets in bio image by Izzy Leung

when your parents fly to the us for your masters grad and they love taking pics of you <3

screening party time!! 🎬Intimacy Violation a work-in-progress screening of Intimacy Violation by Yining Chi (with a participatory performance around audio description), followed by a discussion moderated by Meesh Sara Fradkin also: light refreshments, mingling & more :) when: thursday, april 24 time: 7-9pm where: hybrid, @comeforever_ (342 hewes street, brooklyn) + zoom free & open to the public! rsvp links (for both in-person and virtual) are on the poster and in bio. zoom info will be sent after registration for virtual attendees. this event is sponsored by the nyu center for disability studies and supported by a blade of glass. on-site donations to come forever are appreciated. ~ ~ ~ notes on the film: “Intimacy Violation is a video essay that explores the intersections of disability, kinship, trust, and authority through my mom, Ning’s experience with a rare genetic disease in China. The film traces different forms of intimacy: societal infrastructure violates my mom’s access intimacy; our opposing views on medicine and sexuality violate our political intimacy; my mom perceives her illness as violating our familial intimacy; technology violates our body intimacy; and, by filming her vulnerability, I may be violating our emotional intimacy...”— Chi (chi’s mom will join via zoom!) accessibility: - film & performance feature open captions (chinese-english bilingual) and audio description. - live captions are available for virtual attendees. - venue is wheelchair accessible with an accessible bathroom. - masks are required + provided as part of collective care. - food served outdoors in open air.

me and you and everyone we met there