Xin Wang
Xin Wang is a curator and art historian based in New York. A PhD candidate at the Institute of Fine Arts, NYU, she is finishing a dissertation on Soviet Hauntology. In fall 2023, she curated “To Your Eternity,” the fourth art-and-technology themed biennial at Beijing’s Today Art Museum.
During the weeks following a video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery (VATS) in early 2024, which involved tiny cameras and surgical tools piercing through an inch-long aperture between two ribs, I obsessively read up on the medical procedure, for its elegant precision (now further augmented by AI and 3D modeling) and minimization of pain seem to ever drift towards the realm of sorcery, rather than science. To art-historically sensitive eyes, an unexpectedly rewarding aspect of this rabbit-hole journey lies in the medical imaging and documentation of procedures that are mesmerizingly novel yet familiar.
