Timjune Tianjun Li 李天竣


Current and Past Exhibitions

Sound Art and Music Performances
Projects

  1. Free as Birds

  2. Lighthouse Polyphonic

  3. Singing Rizitika in Cloudcuckooland

  5. Today, Tomorrow, and the Tales from the Wind 

  6. Of Stone,  Wood, Light, and What

  8. From Aranya to Qinhuangdao

  9. La Luna y el Hacedor

  10. Village of Oblivion

  11. A Goat in Blue

 
Artist-in-Residence Projects (Selected)
         
          Hymn to Kalbe
                Künstlerstadt Kalbe, Kalbe (DE)

  1.           Of Stone,  Wood, Light, and What

    1.                 Art Lives Here by Leonardo Hotels, Warsaw (PL)

         

          Fireworks, Volcano, Home
          SIM Residency, Reykjavík  (IS)



Video Projects

Artist Book and Publications

Commissioned and Collaborative Projects

  1. La Loba, Sisterhoo (Sandrayati)     S Loba

BIO/CV



 

    ©2024 Timjune Tianjun Li
    timjunelee@gmail.com

    Singing Rizitika in Cloudcuckooland


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

    Free as Birds: Singing Rizitika in Cloudcuckooland is a poetic audiovisual work and performance exploring freedom, voice, and utopia through the imagination of children.

    Rooted in the ancient Greek comedy The Birds by Aristophanes and inspired by the traditional Cretan singing form rizitika, the piece invites a group of local girls aged 4 to 10 to become founding citizens of a new Cloudcuckooland—a mythical bird nation built not by adults, but by children. Each child takes on a bird identity and declares her own "bird constitution" through voice, movement, and symbolic gestures.



    The result is a moving choral-video performance that fuses projected landscapes, spontaneous dancing, and playful yet powerful soundscapes. In a world shaped by restrictions and inherited rules, these children reimagine citizenship, agency, and freedom—speaking not from fantasy, but from the future they long to shape. This chapter of Free as Birds expands the project’s ongoing inquiry into migration, resistance, and ecological dreams, offering a rare glimpse into the fierce clarity of a child’s imagined utopia.