Beile Hu is an artist and researcher working with performance, sound, and moving images. Their practices primarily engage urban ecologies through sonic fieldwork, exploring vibrant and intimate relationships between trees, water, and architecture. As part of this engagement, the human body functions as a sensor, acting as a site of mediation shaped through ongoing processes of variation and transformation. By translating the personal into the political, they investigate a fluid form of intimacy between humans, non-human entities, and social-ecological environments. Working across cities in China and the United States, they examine how non-human entities register, retain, and recompose human presence both physically and historically.