Xi Li
Xi Li 李曦 is an interdisciplinary artist and researcher. Born in Harbin, China, and based in Tāmaki Makaurau, Aotearoa, she earned a Master of Fine Arts (with first-class honours) from Elam School of Fine Arts at the University of Auckland in 2021. Her practice spans digital film, moving images, animation, 3D-printed sculptures, performance, spatial installations, virtual reality, games, and diagrams. Her work explores the interaction between physical experiences and the digital realm through grand narratives and extensive projects.
She integrates frameworks like psychoanalysis, postmodernity, semiotics, and phenomenology to create self-mythologies and critical dialogues. Her interests include the complexity of subjective and collective experiences, focusing on the construction and transformation of consciousness and subjectivity in digital technology, capitalism, cyberspace, and popular cultures.
Her cross-cultural background sparks interest in global diaspora, identity, gender and racial belonging, marginalisation, colonisation, geopolitical dynamics, and hyper-cultural landscapes. Xi Li is dedicated to merging theoretical research with artistic practice, creating expressions that link both realms.