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Armory Center for the Arts is pleased to present Trampoline House: Memory Drawing Series, a durational performance by Sichong Xie taking place in two iterations over two nights. In Trampoline House: Memory Drawing Series, the artist transforms a playground into a stage of temporal disintegration. Drawing from children’s games and the rawness of construction site materials, this durational performance collapses the boundaries between play and labor. A trampoline becomes the platform for a living drawing, where a large chalk piece is layered over original architectural renderings from the artist's grandfather—blueprints from the 1960s. Every memory is an empty theater—a space that once held meaning, now gradually fading into oblivion. As the durational performance slowly dissolves the chalk drawing, the ephemeral nature of memory takes form in every movement.

The event is free and open to the public. RSVP is required

About the Artist

Sichong Xie is a Los Angeles-based multidisciplinary artist. Her practice combines movement and material in body-based sculptural forms, including masks, costumes, and other objects. By placing traditional sculptural forms within new sites, materials, and social constructs, she investigates these forms and movements within global communities to reconsider and re-envision shared spaces and performative practices. She raises questions about identity, politics, cross-culturalism, and the surreal characteristics of her body in the ever-changing environment.

Xie received her MFA from the California Institute of the Arts, CA. She is the recipient of the 2022 MAP Fund Award and the 2021 Artadia Los Angeles Award. Her most recent installation, Memory Structure, Scaffold Series, at the Wende Museum in Los Angeles, features objects and arrangements emblematic of memory and temporality: bamboo scaffolding, embroidery on industrial mesh, and a set of laser-engraved drawings that will fade from continual exposure to light, through which she reimagines architectural drawings created by her grandfather in the late 1950s and early 1960s. This installation brings the materiality of the natural bamboo into direct conversation with the mass-produced nature of the scaffold and its role in development. Xie was a fellow artist at MacDowell, the Studios at MASS MoCA, Yaddo, the Watermill Center, the Fine Arts Work Center, the Vermont Studio Center, and the Skowhegan School of Painting & Sculpture. In 2017, Xie was chosen to participate at the Hauser & Wirth Somerset Exchange residency in Bath, U.K., where she created a four-hour durational performance/installation, "Walking With The Disappeared." Her works have been supported with grants from the Marciano Art Foundation, Artadia, the Foundation for Contemporary Arts, the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation, the Howard Gilman Foundation, and the Mellon Foundation. Recent exhibitions include the USC Pacific Asia Museum, Los Angeles, Hauser & Wirth Los Angeles, OCAT Art Museum in Xi’An, China, LACE Gallery, Los Angeles, Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, Night Gallery, Los Angeles, Automata Arts, Los Angeles, Chashama Gallery, New York, Provincetown Art Museum, MA, Wende Museum, Los Angeles, and Zentrum für Kunst und Urbanistik in Berlin, Germany.

This program is presented in connection with the exhibition my hands are monsters who believe in magic.

Sichong Xie, Trampoline House: Memory Drawing Series, 2025. Trampoline mat, chalk, aluminum, springs, HD video installation (color/sound). Courtesy of the artist.