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 III
Cloudcuckooland
2025
Photography, Video Installation, Sound Art, Performance
Created during the Artist Residency of E75 Art Bus by MUU Helsinki Contemporary Art Centre (FI) and METAXOTO Dance School (GR) for the European Capital City Oulu 2026.


Children collectively reimagine a utopian world of freedom as birds





Cloudcuckooland reimagines freedom through the voices and visions of children. Developed in Crete Island in Greece, this chapter of Free as Birds invites local children to collectively reimagine a new world called Cloudcuckooland.

Drawing inspiration from Aristophanes’ ancient Greek comedy The Birds, in which birds build a sky-city to escape the failings of human society, and from rizitika, the traditional polyphonic Cretan singing form rooted in collective memory and resistance, this work blends fiction, ritual, and lived experience. Instead of adult protagonists, here, children become the founders of a new mythical nation. Each child assumes a unique bird identity and declares her own "constitution of freedom" through spontaneous gestures, song, and choral expression.

Through a process of participatory workshops, the children designed translucent wings and beaks, composed and sang imagined birdsongs. They performed gentle, collective rituals in sites of ancient ruins. The result is a multi-sensory installation combining photography, video installation, and a soundscape of chorus, breath, and birdsong, culminating in a performance .

This work responds to the harsh realities of children’s displacement, loss of homeland and even lives, and ecological collapse, from a perspective of luminous defiance. In a world constrained by borders, conflicts, and societal collapse, the children’s imagined Cloudcuckooland becomes a site of soft power and radical hope. Speaking not only from fantasy, but from futures they long to shape, their voices remind us that imagination itself can be a form of resistance—and that utopia, though fragile, can be sung into being.



Cloudcuckooland, Photography Series, 2025

Video and Performance Installation
Akureyri Art Museum (IS), 2025
Video Installation
Photographic Centre Nykyaika (FI), 2026