Xper.Xr

Fracas, 1994/2021, Installation view at Tailwhip | Xper. Xr. Empty Gallery
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Megaphone, 1990, Installation view at Tailwhip | Xper. Xr. Empty Gallery
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Sake Molotovs, 2019, Installation view at Tailwhip | Xper. Xr. Empty Gallery
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Untitled (Dedicated to M+), 1991/2021 , Installation view at Tailwhip | Xper. Xr. Empty Gallery
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Used Racing Suit, 2013 -2021, Installation view at Tailwhip | Xper. Xr. Empty Gallery
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Dragon Xper, 2005 , Installation view at Tailwhip | Xper. Xr. Empty Gallery
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XPER.XR (born 1970) is a Hong Kong-based artist, performer, and provocateur belonging to the city’s first generation of experimental musicians. After releasing Murmur (1989), arguably the first industrial noise recording in the territory, he went on to release and perform alongside such names as Otomo Yoshihide, Merzbow, and Whitehouse. Characterized by a constitutional irreverence, deliberate courting of failure, and self-effacing aesthetic, Xper.Xr.’s practice represents a crucial moment of the city’s artistic counter-history. From 2012 to 2015, he ran the seminal underground exhibition and performance venue CIA in Kowloon, organizing shows with like-minded artists Kago Shintaro, Vagina Dentata Organ, New Noveta, Hermann Nitsch, Laibach, and Olivier de Sagazan.