Bio:

Zhuanxu Xu is a visual artist and researcher based in London. Their research areas are trans and queer studies, feminist philosophy, and social and political philosophy, with a particular emphasis on the intersection between them. Their artistic practices utilise various production modes including writing, photography, film, performance to manifest the antagonistic position towards hegemonic societal discourse and knowledge production. 

Synopsis:

Moonshadow or (The Lunar Month) 

After receiving a phone call from her partner Joe about not having her menstruation for over a month (but not being pregnant), a trans woman, Jo, wanders alone from morning to night on the beach. She contemplates the idea of universal womanhood and femaleness, and her relationship to her own genitals. She glances up at the moon and ponders the affinity between the moon, the sun and the earth. She decides that she wishes to cut off her own penis. However, when she takes off her underwear to swim in the sea, her knickers are filled with blood.