Timjune Tianjun Li 李天竣


Current and Past Exhibitions

Performances
Projects


  1. Echo, Kaiku, Huisheng
    Free as Birds (2024-ongoing):

  2. Migrating (2024) 

  3. Imagine (2025)

  5. Those Who Flew Before Me (2025) 

  6. Lighthouse Polyphonic (2025)

  7. Singing Rizitika in Cloudcuckooland (2025)

    And I shall go, and the birds will continue singing (2025)

    The Last Sunset (2026) l I
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  9. Today, Tomorrow, and the Tales from the Wind (2024    )

  11. Echo, Echo, Echo (2025-ongoing)
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  12. Breathe, and You Are Home (2026)

    i am (2026-ongoing)

    La Rotació Chorus (2025)    (() 

  2. From Aranya to Qinhuangdao (2022)  

  3. La Luna y el Hacedor (2020)  

  4. Village of Oblivion (2019)

  5. A Goat in Blue (2018)

     
Artist-in-Residence Archives

Bird Collisions


2026, In Progress
Video Performance, Installation


Demo Presentation - Photographic Centre Nykyaika 2026





Bird Collisions (2026) is a video, performance, and photographic installation currently being developed as part of Li’s long-term artistic research project Free as Birds. Supported by the Saastamoinen Foundation.

The project begins with the recurring phenomenon of birds colliding with transparent glass surfaces. Although glass appears open and permeable, it operates as a rigid and often fatal boundary, shaped by reflection, light, and air. This misalignment between perception and material reality forms the conceptual ground of the work.

Through participatory workshops, sound recording, and performance-based filming, 10–20 immigrants living in Finland engage with an imagined glass surface using body movement and voice. Movements marked by hesitation, impact, repetition, and pause are recorded alongside fragmented vocal expressions and breath. These materials are composed into a multi-channel video and sound installation.

Bird Collisions focuses on moments when orientation, movement, and breath fall out of sync with their surroundings. The work traces how invisible borders, tightening migration policies, and restricted mobility are absorbed into the body, becoming physical memory, tension, and interruption rather than visible signs.