Kaixi Yang

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Kaixi (kai-Shee) is a polymathic artist and climate design activist from Auckland, New Zealand, based in New York City. Her practice, grounded in play, performance and embodiment, speculates rituals, artefacts and technologies that heal and augment our relationships with ourselves and nature. Graduating from the Product Design program at Stanford University, Kaixi worked on sustainable fashion technology, wearable devices for air pollution, open source medical device hardware, and waste-stream investigation in Delhi before co-founding ENTITY, a creative engineering consultancy for the health of people & planet, implementing design for industries as diverse as nuclear fusion, responsible mining, battery materials, agent-based AI, robotics, ecovillage design, biomaterials and climate grief. She is also a founder of a community event series, Talking Animals, which has gathered community around degrowth, fossil fuel abolition, & urban greening, holding space for direct action activists and climate innovators. Working in a plethora of mediums, Kaixi has shown works internationally, with Works in Progress, Persona NYC, BronxArtSpace, San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art, the Anderson C

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