Ada Xiaoyu Hao is a performance artist, currently doing practice-based PhD research titled (Et al): Performativity, Intersectionality and Subjectivity in Performance Art Practice, at the University of Brighton, supervised by Prof. Paul Sermon and Prof. Duncan Bullen. She also holds a BA in self-designed major: World Performing Arts and Culture from College of William and Mary, and a MA in Performance from Royal College of Art.  Inspired by Fernando Pessoa’s schizomechanic and heteronymic writing in his search for the liberated-self, Ada questions how the performativity of more than one identity intersects with the self and the (dis)embodiement of subjectivity, and how artistic practices engage with the plasticity of the artistic role in relation to technologies of the self. Ada’s interdisciplinary art practice and research focus on self and others, a becoming, desire and the abject, and the immaterial subjects, all of which are negotiated with live art, curating, moving image, the poetics, machine learning and soundscape composition. Ada also encompasses her artistic research with a new cannon that counters the traditional narrativization of performance art and does not elide the presence of diasporic artists as historical coconspirators. She also curates with PAPRIKA Collective,  an exploratory, virtual, and archival platform that sustains and habituates emerging experimentation and development in Live Art.