Roles in Archive: Participant, Performer
Xavier Cha’s performance-based work revolves around modes of accessibility, cultural exchange, and hierarchies of space and perception. Collaboration is often at play in her performances: Cha has invited actors, dancers, musicians, cults, and clowns, among many others, to not only participate in her projects, but also to become protagonists in the work. Her work has been exhibited at the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia, de la Cruz Collection Contemporary Art Space, The Kitchen, Museum of Contemporary Art North Miami, Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis, Northern Gallery for Contemporary Art (UK), the Sculpture Center, Asia Society Museum, and the Hammer Museum, among other galleries and museums throughout the United States and Europe.