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黄半衣 Banyi Huang

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When you turn your limerence object, the amaryllis, into a Gaussian splat, and the shininess you attribute it blinds you ⚡️

#limerence by @cropp_topp

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12 days ago

Sharing a recent performance I did at @waterandpower_life

It was my first time performing with Sibuxiang in public. Sibuxiang was birthed in a body cave, a by-product of my search for intimacy and catharsis through the physicality of interfacing. Sibuxiang is me flipped inside-out.

It was super rewarding to work with Diana @b.lushfire for the sound. She delivered a build up that really shaped and textured the piece. I’d like to manifest a live set into reality 😬

Documentation @jiapei.__.yao @melodrama_yu @haeummyocean thank you @qumei0 for helping me set up

Thank you @vora______ for welcoming me into the family, and @seblooloo for an installation that brought so many people together 💜 by @cropp_topp

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3 months ago

無為 following wuwei,
one lives in alignment
With a harmonious state of free flowing
and unforced activity

Align your body, assist the inner power,
Then it will gradually come on its own

Installation ‘Dwelling’ by @seblooloo and friends

Performances by
@uhseulung
@youngtseng.work
@cropp_topp
@dragonwuofficial
@li_daiguo

June 27, 2026 7-12am
W&P
3027 South Grand Avenue
Los Angeles CA 90007

$10-$15 NOTAFLOF

https://ra.co/events/2468912 by @cropp_topp

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4 months ago

I’ve been working on an inverted body cave combining 3D scanned body texture with height map data from terrains. Capturing skin feels like archiving the talismanic information gathered from body markings — tattoos, piercings, gender transitioning — petroglyphs that witness life as it unfolds. I’ve always fantasized about being a tiny tourist surveying my body, only leaving behind 到此一游. Here, you can glide or settle into 4WD.

All this obsessive energy was amplified by a recent camping trip I took with Fade @fade.worm. We drove through rolling mountains in Death Valley, immersed in its back-tingling folds, scorching canyons, and ceremonial heat.

When I talked about my project, Fade said it’s basically an inverted glory hole, one that allows a peak into the erotic terrains of our own making. Maybe it responds with wetness towards proximity. Maybe access needs to be limited.

I want to learn a way of building scaffolding for sites that can hold stories, sounds, experiences not captured in the colonial relationship to land centered around extraction. by @cropp_topp

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7 months ago

Before attending my visa interview in China, I was advised to print out my O1 petition, which is 1400 pages. For two hours, I waited in line at the US Consulate in Shanghai, carrying this weapon of a document. People with work visas chat each other up nervously to pass the time, watching as others get grilled by jaded English-speaking officers. Where do you work? What’s your salary? Show me your CV.

When it came my turn, I dropped the document on the counter, making a thud that pretty much sums up my professional life accumulated over the past 6 years. The officer eyed me up and my stack of documents. “Is that your portfolio?” I nodded. Without one more word, he then signaled I passed, a pathetic look flashing through his eyes.

Angered at the system yet relieved I didn’t have to explain myself, I stepped onto an elevator on my way down. The familiar tune of a Richard Clayderman elevator music, I was transported into a no-time zone. Those who get it get it. Your sense of belonging hanging precariously between amnesia and brief flashes of recognition. by @cropp_topp

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10 months ago

September this year, I moved to Los Angeles to start the DMA program at UCLA. Having lived in NYC for 10 years, I miss my friends. It hasn’t been an easy transition. I am learning to guide my body through a lot of change.

This quarter, I developed a work called Banxian’s Famous Landmarks. It takes Google’s Mediapipe pose-detection framework as both measurement and metaphor. The framework’s ‘landmarks’, points used to map and measure the body, both echo and diverge from the acupuncture system in Traditional Chinese Medicine. Using a webcam that tracks my movement in real time, I go on a tour of newly-imagined landmarks. A site is activated through a tapping gesture, which triggers an audio story. I then respond with voice and motion, offering a movement prompt that links feeling, narrative, and spatial orientation. Inspired by the Nei Jing Tu, a Daoist diagram depicting the body as a cosmological terrain, this system reconfigures machine vision into a medium for iterating through the archival nodes of my body—inflammation, stress, trauma, and yearning. by @cropp_topp

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10 months ago

They say that Los Angeles is a Heavenly Hell. What a feeling. by @cropp_topp

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a year ago

i’m excited to look for a collaborator — a game designer interested in experimenting and building interactive narratives together in Unreal Engine.

this would be an ongoing collaboration (virtual or in-person) at the early concept stage. i’m especially seeking someone who wants to co-develop both the conceptual and experiential sides — building speculative cosmologies and queer worlding together for QTBIPOC diasporic audiences.

my background is in storytelling, research, and 3d modeling. my high is to imagine the merging between spirituality, somatics and 3D worldbuilding, and doing that in a more immersive way that reaches folks who need it.
i’m looking for someone who complements that with experience in interactive design, networked environments, and thinking about interactivity as ritual, as portal, as poetics.

my vision is to co-create a live performance featuring a morphing deity-animal-organism hybrid, unfolding and birthing itself through movement and sound. with your powers, we would imbue design with ritual intention and Daoist energetics, and cultivate the healing properties of the divine/monstrous feminine.

Im hoping to do weekly check-ins over the next few months, but i’m also open to figuring out the form and rhythm that works for both of us.

if you are a nerd like me or someone you know who might be into this, please dm me 🧚✨ by @cropp_topp

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a year ago

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a year ago

We worked with artist 黄半衣 Banyi Huang @cropp_topp to conjure up methods of entanglement in a 3D landscape. All thresholds lead back to me through you. So is merging inevitable? And where are you unyielding? by @cropp_topp

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a year ago

Thank you so much to @alicesparklykat @izdiharstudio @charbot for organizing this art raffle to raise $$ for d!splaced and ev@cuating families. They are working with @whitecoats4blacklives to ensure that your 100% of your contributions will reach the people that need them most. We have so many excellent raffle prizes from a growing list of amazing artists and makers. Check the list for the roster and much more.

Tickets are only $15. Link in bio to buy tickets, there is no limit to how many you can buy and you can participate from anywhere! The raffle ends on August 25, so please share widely and participate soon!!

I am contributing my sculpture Frolicking in ClitForest, 2023.
3d printed sculpture on motorized turntable
28 x 10 x 10 inches
May our invocations of Mazu, the deity that watches over diasporic and d!splaced communities, bring the safety and protection they need.

This birthday month, your best gift to me will be supporting this raffle and donating to gofundmes to support families in g@z@ by @cropp_topp

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2 years ago

Join us for Daoist talisman writing workshop with Banyi Huang and Phoebe Chen on July 13, 1-3PM 🎫 rsvp link in the bio

Drawing from The Tao of Craft by Benebell Wen and our research, we will introduce the history of fu talismans in the Daoist tradition, exploring it in relation to as magical spirituality and shamanism, witches and gender, and the Eastern cosmological framework. This two-hour session will focus on design, going over the various style sand components of sigil making. We will provide examples of sigils and encourage participants to make their own and practice. Join us as we compose poetic template for designing and consecrating desire.

Pen and paper will be provided. Donation to cover materials is encouraged. There will also be a link to support the Palestine Children’s Relief Fund.

Lead artists:

Banyi Huang (they/them) @cropp_topp is a multimedia artist and writer based in Brooklyn, New York. In their interdisciplinary practice that spans research, writing, and 3D worldbuilding, Banyi seeks to challenge the linearity in Western narratives of technology by re-engaging with Asian folklore, cosmologies and spirituality. Their work has been shown at DEMO 2024, Smack Mellon, Abrons Art Center, The Soto Velez Clemente Center, Special Special, Artist’s Space. Recent screenings include the New Museum, the Taiwan Film and Audio Institute, and Wonderville.

Phoebe Chen (they/them) @phoebebeeps is a PhD candidate in the Psychology program at New York University. Their research focuses on how we construct meaning in nouns and verbs, events, and narratives, through collecting and analyzing text and behavioral data. In pursuing the principles of semantics they became interested in the compositional symbolism in esoteric practices. They continue to use divination and magic as theoretical devices for the unconscious, while harvesting its revolutionary potential against the Western normativizing machine. by @cropp_topp

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