A Museum of Ellipses
national Maritime Museum, Greenwich, 2025
written and performed by Chen Xu,
in collaboration with Yui Minari and Matthew Schwartz
A queer migrant body is an archive of ellipsed identities.
A museum collection is a constant rewriting of an empire’s violent past.
A Museum of Ellipses is a site-responsive performance at the National Maritime Museum, where my displacement traces imperial echoes. Through afterimages of empire and fragile personal archives, the performance seeks to countercurrent and remap the narrative of history’s tide.
Commissioned by Bold Mellon
Voiceover by Matthew Schwartz and Yi Li
Kindly supported by National Maritime Museum Archive
