Music Videos by XINA XURNER

In collaboration with Lila De Magalhaes and Christopher Richmond

as part of the virtual exhibition

Body Memory - Body Vision: Performance Works

Through the use of sound and performance, Xina Xurner creates a space where collective healing and shapeshifting can occur. Xina Xurner is an experimental music/performance art collaboration between Marvin Astorga and Young Joon Kwak, whose cathartic performances combine DIY and power electronics, mutated vocals, and bad drag, to expand ideas about queer and trans bodies.

Their music combines a variety of genres, in order to create sadical and sexperimental noise-diva-dance anthems that evoke a sense of death, decay, and transformation. Through their music and performances, Xina Xurner deals with themes of desire, rage, sexuality, pain, joy, and laughter - all feelings that accompany expressing one’s true self. When viewing Xina Xurner’s videos, one realizes that social constructs such as gender are constantly in flux; their work aims to make space for their audience to question how we categorize people. Experiencing their music is a cathartic experience; it allows the listener to dance-their-butt-off through their own transformation.

Their first debut album, “DIE”, was released in 2012, followed by “Queens of the Night” in 2018. Past performance spaces and events include sCum, The Smell, the Hammer Museum, Cool World, Mustache Mondays, LACE, Smart Museum of Art (Chicago), Bath Salts (NYC), and Bitchpork (Chicago), as well as international performances in Paris, Tokyo, Seoul, and Mexico City.