XPER.XR 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.
Read MoreCharacterised 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, organising shows with like-minded artists Kago Shintaro, Vagina Dentata Organ, New Noveta, Hermann Nitsch, Laibach, and Olivier de Sagazan.
Text courtesy Empty Gallery.
