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) hall I


  8. Today, Tomorrow, and the Tales from the Wind (2024    )

  10. Echo, Echo, Echo (2025-ongoing)
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  11. 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

Free as Birds V:
Imagine


4K, 7'06', Single-channel video installation with sound, Photography Series, 2025
Filmed and developed during Öres Residency, Örö Island, Finland


The artist performs as a grieving bird,
their voice resonates with the gun emplacement and AI-trained bird choirs.


Installation Preview, Öres Residency, Finland, 2025



Wearing a found-feathered costume, the artist performs a hybrid, bird-like figure atop the rusted structure of a coastal gun emplacement. The body occupies a liminal position between human, bird, and spirit, singing fragmented lines from Imagine by John Lennon. The familiar pacifist anthem is revoiced as a lament in response to ecological collapse and the site’s history of violence.

The voice resonates through the hollow metal architecture, turning the former fortress into an acoustic chamber where bodily presence encounters material and sonic memory. In the final section, an AI-generated choral sequence emerges. The original lyrics are algorithmically translated into the vocal patterns of local swans and re-synthesized as speculative birdsong, proposing a non-human horizon for human ideals.



Stills from Free as Birds V: Imagine, 2025




Installation View, Öres Residency,  Finland, 2025


Performance, Akureyri Art Musuem, IS, 2025


“Free as Birds V: Imagine” is a chapter in Tianjun Li’s ongoing transdisciplinary project Free as Birds, which explores the parallel trajectories of birds and human beings through themes of migration, voice, and the fragile promise of freedom developed across multiple islands. Developed during a residency on Örö Island - an isolated former military fortress in the Finnish archipelago - this work brings together performance, voice experimentation, AI-generated choir, and site-specific intervention.