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

The Last Sunset


2026
Two-channel video installation, color, stereo sound

The artist uses their voice to repetitively simulate the siren (alarm) during the course of the final sunset of the year.




This performance-based video work is staged on a frozen sea during the final sunset of the 2025 Lunar New Year. Facing the falling sun, the artist is wrapped in a reflective emergency blanket that mirrors the diminishing solar light. The artist repetitively simulates the piercing, descending trajectory of a mechanical siren using only the human voice. This vocal exertion persists until the sunset is concluded, and the artist reaches physical exhaustion and total voice loss.

The two-channel presentation features synchronized footage from dual camera angles, documenting the nuanced shifts in luminosity on the artist’s figure and the surrounding landscape. Machine learning algorithms process these fluctuations in the sunset's light. The system regenerates this visual data, synthesized with the artist’s live vocals and authentic siren samples, into a choir-like sonic landscape that interacts with the deteriorating human voice.




The siren operates as a universal acoustic symbol beyond language. It hovers over landscapes of war, emergency drills, and collective mourning. Its rising and falling pitch mirrors the inevitable descent of the sun, forming a global melody of perpetual alert.

In this work, the human voice serves as a visceral vessel to embody this mechanical signal. The voice uses pure corporeal resonance to articulate human fragility, expressing the profound anxiety that semantic language can no longer contain.

The artist forces the organic throat to replicate the precision of a warning system directly against the dying light. This act exposes the rupture between the stability we seek and the unstable reality we inhabit. The performance is anchored by the year’s final sunset on a frozen sea, a sublime force of natural termination and cosmic indifference.

As the solar light fades, the artist’s body reaches exhaustion. The vocal siren deteriorates in sync with the darkening horizon, shifting from a signal of external danger into an internal cry. It becomes a sonic manifestation of the uncertainty that defines our future, a desperate negotiation with the encroaching darkness.


The work was created during the Saari Residence by the Kone Foundation, assisted by Stellan Veloce, Finland, 2026