Biyi Zhu (She/Her) is a Southeast China–born, Netherlands-based interdisciplinary artist, performer, and researcher working across video art, documentary, and technology-
integrated performance. Drawing on her lived experience, her practice explores mobility,migration, and coexistence, reflecting on how these forces shape identities, relationships, and socio-political realities. Currently, Zhu investigates care and kinship through the domestic practices of traditional Chinese medicine and Cantonese herbal soup, engaging with non-conventional archiving, collective cultural memory, ecological imagination, and alternative narratives. Alongside video, film, and soup-making workshops, she works with
performance as process, embodying and experimenting with performativity to explore and materialize her understanding of kinship.
She is a co-founding member of BLOB collective (NL). Her work has been presented at SLARG Research Week; Royal Conservatoire, Het Bos, and De Signel in Antwerp; ZK/U –Zentrum für Kunst und Urbanistik, Berlin; DE BOUWPUT Gallery, Amsterdam; Huis Marseille, Amsterdam; and Macao Design Center, China.
Get You Out of the Blue Soup
This performance engages with the theme of Composting Politics by treating food, memory, and cultural rituals as compost—materials that decompose, transform, and renew across time and space. The humble act of soup-making becomes a political and poetic gesture, carrying the fluid emotions, latent memories, and quiet strength of everyday practices. The herbs used, often by Cantonese grandmothers for healing, become an informal, living archive: something evaporative and permeable, passed down and transformed through generations.
This performance project is made possible by the Cultuurfonds.
Saturday 15 november:
Exhibition open 12:00 – 17:00
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14:00: Yegane Mehrzad (Tea reading in the library)
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15:30 Performance: Biyi Zhu/BITSRAY (Get You Out of the Blue Soup – Project space)
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View the entire Vide Cultura: through rot and renewal schedule from November here