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Artist Feature 004: Xavier Xu. Tāmaki Makaurau-based installation and moving image artist, Xavier films the structures that shape bodies into compliance, the school gate, the factory entrance, the rhythms we stop noticing. His dual-channel installation places education and labour face to face, forcing the viewer to absorb one while the other waits behind them. We discussed the camera as a tool for revealing invisible control, the point where personal memory becomes political work, and what long-term support actually looks like for artists in Aotearoa.

Artist Feature 004: Xavier Xu. Tāmaki Makaurau-based installation and moving image artist, Xavier films the structures that shape bodies into compliance, the school gate, the factory entrance, the rhythms we stop noticing. His dual-channel installation places education and labour face to face, forcing the viewer to absorb one while the other waits behind them. We discussed the camera as a tool for revealing invisible control, the point where personal memory becomes political work, and what long-term support actually looks like for artists in Aotearoa.

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