artist, filmmaker, performance-maker
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Mei Liu is an artist, filmmaker and performance-maker from Shanghai. Her practice explores speculative fiction rooted in social reality, embodied memory and collective resistance.
She is a resident at the Jan van Eyck Academie in Maastricht. She received her MA in Artistic Research in and through Cinema at Netherlands Film Academy and BFA in Film Production from NYU Tisch School of the Arts. She participated in the Apichatpong Weerasethakul film lab in the Amazon jungle and was supported by Forecast to work with artist mentor Lieko Shiga. Her performances have been shown at Theater Commons Tokyo, Eye Filmmuseum, Radialsystem; her films screened at Clermont-Ferrand Film Festival, WORM Pirate Bay, West Lake International Documentary Festival.
She is interested in alternative structures, dreams, and the mystical realms of existence. Mei strives to create new commons such as filmmaking spaces that disrupt existing hierarchies and interactions in society. She co-founded Cenote Workshop, a Shanghai-based collaborative community project anchored in spiritual activism that hosts improvisational performance workshops in attempt to reawaken our relationship with the immaterial world around us; she also co-founded Electric Shadows, an Amsterdam-based interdisciplinary artist collective and artist-run space with members from Iran, Syria, Mexico and China.
(photo credit: Malaz Usta)
2026
Jan van Eyck Academie
Maastricht, the Netherlands
Artist in Residence
2026 Feburary
Venice Biennale College Blend
Venice, Italy
Workshop Residency
2027
Kinosaki International Arts Center
Kinosaki, Japan
Artist in Residence