Jack Whu

Jack Whu 胡杰克 (they/them) is a queer performer and sound artist based in Naarm/Melbourne. Their work is shaped by the push and pull of diaspora and queerness, where tradition is both refuge and resistance. By subverting traditional forms, they transform the Western flute from a symbol of colonial influence into a vessel for expressing their fluid identity and diasporic narrative as a non-binary artist from Shanghai. By bending and reshaping the flute’s voice through shifting microtones, glitches, and breath, they improvise live on an amplified flute.