HOMESICK FOR ANOTHER WORLD
a long-term artistic research project:
cinema as border crossing vehicle towards utopia, through dreams and alternative ralities
When reality gets so absurd, it slips away from our usual vocabulary, melting into an expression that can only be contained by ways of the speculative, and decoded by the language of dreams.
Upcoming:
Feburary 24-25 | Theater Commons Tokyo 25’
Homesick for Another World
multi-media theater performance (WIP)
︎Tokyo, Japan
Homesick for Another World
multi-media theater performance (WIP)
︎Tokyo, Japan
https://theatercommons.tokyo/
2025.2.24, 25 メイ・リウ［中国／オランダ］
「Homesick for Another World」 Mei Liu [China / the Netherlands]
“Homesick for Another World” レクチャーパフォーマンス Lecture performance
2025.2.24, 25 メイ・リウ［中国／オランダ］
「Homesick for Another World」 Mei Liu [China / the Netherlands]
“Homesick for Another World” レクチャーパフォーマンス Lecture performance
March 14-15 | Forecast Festival
Homesick for Another World
multi-media theater performance (Premiere)
︎Radialsystem, Berlin, Germany
Homesick for Another World
multi-media theater performance (Premiere)
︎Radialsystem, Berlin, Germany
https://forecast-platform.com/
With the mentorship of artist Lieko Shiga, supported by Forecast Platform
With the mentorship of artist Lieko Shiga, supported by Forecast Platform
1
Homesick for Another World: a lecture performance
performance, computer screen mirroring, video clips, audio clips, archival images, youtube videos
2024
Weaving interview, dreams, playful speculative fiction and personal reflections into unexpected storytelling performance mediated by computer interface.
2
Homesick for Another World: expanded screenplay7-channel video installation
2024
(video documentation: https://vimeo.com/1018221091/c30925bb15)
3
The Universe is a Donut and You are Starving
2024
publication / artist book
The publication shares my 2-year artistic research Homesick for Another World. Through sincere, almost confession-like writing, I weave and deconstruct my dreams to interpret my devotion to these particular themes, to reflect on my subjectivity, positioning and methodology, and to understand how I'm relating to cinema, existence and consciousness in our deeply trying times.
The text guides through steps of research, including the outputs. The reading experience attempts to bring readers into my private dreamscape, and through the portals of stories let you arrive at somewhere vast, boundless, yet deeply familiar—where distinction and borders between you and I are traversed.
4
Entering Another World: Co-dreaming Workshop
2024
Participants of shared political trauma enter hypnosis and take on fictional roles, participate in gameplay and collective storytelling & healing. I collect the visions of ‘another world’ they receive under the hypnosis state.
5
Research Progress Container
(not public for interviewees’ privacy purposes, email me for a link)
