Echo, Kaiku, Huisheng 回声、回声、回声
2025 - Ongoing
Multi-Channel Video Installation, Sound, Performance
Preview of Echo / Kaiku / Huisheng (Ongoing, Updated on August 2025)
Echo / Kaiku / Huisheng (回声 回声 回声) is an ongoing multi-channel sound and video project by visual artist and vocalist Tianjun Li. It explores the primal and poetic power of the human voice to connect beyond language, identity, and ideology. In a time of growing political division, censorship, and conflict, the project uses site-specific, wordless vocal performances across time and space to build shared resonance and emotional connection between fragmented worlds.
Working alone across shifting landscapes and seasons, Li records each performance as a personal dialogue with its environment. From Arctic circles to Mediterranean islands, the voice responds to surrounding soundscapes and the previous videos. The recordings are shared simultaneously on both Western and Chinese social media platforms, creating a parallel circulation that bypasses digital firewalls and transforms controlled online spaces into channels of co-listening. Through these dispersed transmissions, the work forms a living archive of borderless voices that echo between continents, systems, and communities. These videos have reached over 140,000 followers and 20 million views across Instagram and China’s RedNote, extending the project into a participatory, transnational sphere beyond physical space.
Situated within the frameworks of acoustic ecology and the politics of audibility, the project employs a minimal, poetic, and primal form of resonance that reimagines the human voice as a medium of posthumanist listening and distributed performance. Each vocal act builds upon the previous ones, forming a layered, polyphonic choir that unfolds across geography and time. The work reflects on presence, listening, and the fragile potential of collective resonance within a fractured digital age.