Peilin Li
About
Peilin Li is a director and digital artist. Her practice combines contemporary artistic performance with digital interaction to explore new constructs of theatrical presence.
Her work “Wasteland” begins with the story of the “Mountain Spirit” from “Nine Songs,” transforming and reconstructing this traditional text within a contemporary context to create a cyborg Mountain Spirit figure that symbolizes fluid identity and gender plurality. The work employs the traditional Chinese literary imagery of “pine wind” as a medium, presenting a landscape of postmodern spiritual wasteland. By reconstructing time and space on the theatrical stage, Li aims to capture the infinity within the postmodern context and the existential anxiety it implies, using the classical mythological text of the Mountain Spirit to explore the collective human destiny and unconsciousness regarding the past, present, and future, embedded in the theme of waiting.
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