artist, filmmaker, performance-maker
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Mei Liu is an interdisciplinary artist originally from Shanghai. Trained in documentary filmmaking and artistic research, her practice is an exercise in world-making, through performance, workshops, collective gatherings, and film. Her works are process-driven, polyphonic, and communal, rooted in the body as a site where the spiritual and the political converge. Guided by questions such as, “What is freedom?” and “What makes us human?,” she employs embodied, testimony-like methodologies, among them lucid dreaming, oral history, and live improvisation and performance. She summons erased histories, disappeared voices, and other ghosts from invisible realms—those repressed, rejected, or forgotten.
Mei is currently developing MY BODY IS A RESONANCE CHAMBER, a project that came to her in a dream in which she swallowed an SD card. Combining performance, collective constellations, and spatial installation, it builds on first-hand encounters and historical research materials to draw out the body’s subterranean memories that language fails to communicate.
Mei co-founded Cenote Workshops in Shanghai and Electric Shadows studio in Amsterdam.
(photo credit: Malaz Usta)
2026
Jan van Eyck Academie
Maastricht, the Netherlands
Artist in Residence
23-25th October, 2026
MY BODY IS A RESONANCE CHAMBER
(WIP performance & installation)
Open Studios JVEJan van Eyck academie, Maastricht
30th October, 2026
Homesick for Another World
(performance)
'L is for the Way You Look at Me II’ discursive programmeHKW, Berlin
15th November, 2026
Homesick for Another World
(performance)
Amsterdam Storytelling Festival
Podium Mozaïek, Amsterdam
26th November, 2026
MY BODY IS A RESONANCE CHAMBER
(WIP performance)
International Art Talent Festival AFKFelix Meritis, Amsterdam
January-Feburary, 2027
MY BODY IS A RESONANCE CHAMBER
(WIP performance & installation)
Kinosaki International Arts Center
Artist in Residence Kinosaki, Japan
Past
8-10th September, 2026
Homesick for Another World
performance at Fringe AmsterdamPodium Mozaïek, Amsterdam
25th August, 2026
Homesick for Another World
performance in 'Eye on Art' programmeEye Filmmuseum, Amsterdam
2026 Feburary
Venice Biennale College Blend
Venice, Italy
Workshop Residency