徐金金 / Xu Jinjin

Overview

Xu Jinjin is a writer, artist, translator, and former student of Anne Carson who appears in EP289.

Current Profile

Xu describes Carson’s work as an early demonstration that scholarship, ancient material, poetry, and formal experiment could coexist. In the classroom, that permission extended into performance, image, dance, radio, and collaborative projects. Xu frames her own cross-field position between Chinese and English writing and visual art not only as marginality but as freedom from any one circle’s expectations.

Key Characteristics

• Connects classical learning with experimental contemporary writing.
• Works across literary and visual-art forms rather than accepting one medium as a complete identity.
• Treats creative marginality as room for autonomy, slower development, and unexpected collaboration.
• Distinguishes intimate recollection from claims to explain another artist’s work.

Evidence

Classical and experimental entry point

• EP289 在安妮·卡森的“马戏团”课堂，拆掉文学的条条框框 says Xu was drawn to Carson’s ability to make classical scholarship part of poetic language experiment.

Cross-media freedom and boundary discipline

• EP289 在安妮·卡森的“马戏团”课堂，拆掉文学的条条框框 connects Xu’s classroom projects and border position across languages and art worlds to creative freedom, while noting her reluctance to serve as Carson’s definitive interpreter.

Qualifications

The page reflects Xu’s self-presentation in one podcast. It does not independently establish the full chronology, catalog, or reception of her creative and translation work.

What Changed

• Created Xu Jinjin’s profile as a writer, artist, translator, and classroom witness.
• Connected classical learning, cross-media practice, and edge-position freedom.

Relationships

• 安妮·卡森 - teacher, translated author, and subject of Xu’s testimony.
• 李娇杨 - fellow former student, collaborator, translator, and conversation partner.
• Classical Material in Contemporary Rewriting / 古典材料的当代改写 - literary method that first drew Xu to Carson.
• Constraint-Based Creative Writing Pedagogy / 规则与随机的创意写作教学 - classroom method that supported Xu’s cross-media work.