08/17/2026
Works by AT/SP MFA Student Beile Hu
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"A Meal with Words" is a durational, one-to-one performance in which each participant prepares a meal for the performer, not with food, but with words written directly onto a plate. At the entrance, each participant receives an instruction card that asks, "Have you ever held something unbearable, personal or political?" Their answer becomes the dish, inscribed onto the plate's surface and served to the performer through a sequence of intimate gestures at the table, including writing, serving, and consuming. The performance unfolds as a ritualized recipe that transforms difficult memories into a shared, embodied experience.
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Beile Hu is an artist working across performance, sound, and video installations. Their work extends toward the soft touch of one-to-one relationships, circling around ritual repetition and intimate encounters with human and non-human others. As part of this engagement, the human body functions as a sensor and a site of mediation shaped through ongoing processes of variation and transformation. Working across cities in China and the United States, they examine how non-human entities register, retain, and recompose human presence both physically and historically.
