Author name: Chunxiao Qu

Chunxiao Qu is a Chinese-born artist and writer based in Melbourne. Her writing and conceptual practice focus on language, power, and structural critique. She has exhibited widely across Australia and internationally, and been published in Un Magazine. She is the author of two poetry collections, and is currently working on Love Poem (a poetic trilogy) and The Mad God Trilogy, while building a long-term literary universe of 133 books.

I Am Not Lu Xun’s Descendant

 I do not write in service of nation, family, or progress. I do not believe in lineage, revolution, or the moral hygiene of literature. What I believe in is fracture. The crack between a sentence and its translation. The glitch between a story and its structure. The betrayal between a word and the thing it tries to mean. I was not born into a canon—I arrived as an interruption. I write not to belong, but to expose belonging itself as a myth.

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Go to find someone to fall in love with before the end of the world

A close-up photo of a bright red condom wrapper, unopened. Overlaid, in blue block capital letters, are the words: ‘GO FIND SOMEONE TO FALL IN LOVE WITH BEFORE THE END OF THE WORLD’.

CHUNXIAO QU is a Chinese-born artist and poet living and working in Melbourne, Australia. Her practice is largely focused on language, spanning various media including neon installation, painting, sculpture, and screen print. Qu explores various modes of conceptual installation, often working with very minimal forms and structures. Her work is at once both concise and deeply inquisitive, playful and pointed.

Qu has published two poetry collections: This poetry book is too good to have a name & Logic Poetry (Discipline, 2022) and Popcorn: Porn of Poetry (no more poetry, 2021).

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