Yichu Li is a London-based multidisciplinary artist whose practice merges image-making, moving image art, audiovisual live performance, and sound art to examine the evolving relationship between identity, power, and digital culture. Grounded in a techno-feminist perspective, her work spans image-led installations, sound-based performances, and moving images, often presented in immersive exhibition contexts. Drawing from mythology, cyber theory, and embodied resistance, Yichu creates poetic visual environments that interrogate digital embodiment and reimagine authorship in the algorithmic age.

Her artistic practice challenges dominant techno-aesthetics by reframing digital media as tools for emotional and political expression. Through live visual composition, remix, and layered image sequences, she empowers marginalized communities—especially women—to reclaim digital space as a site of agency and collective imagination. Her major works—including RAVE CINEMA series, YICHU 1.0 series, and Tat Tvam Asi—craft alternative narrative rituals that blur the boundaries between sound, image, memory, and mechanic rhythm. In 2025, Yichu was named a Finalist for the prestigious Lumen Prize – Performance & Music Award, selected from over 2,200 entries. This recognition affirms her position as a leading voice in audiovisual performance and digital art, celebrated for her pioneering work at the intersection of image, sound, and technology.

Yichu’s works have been exhibited and performed internationally at a range of art institutions and contemporary culture festivals. Notable venues include UCCA AI Artist (CN), IEEE ICME AIART Gallery (FR), TANK Shanghai (CN), Galleria Objets (UK), and the Asian Emerging Artist List Exhibition Hong Kong (CN). Her audiovisual performances have also been featured in Burning Man (US), Fabric London (UK), Riposte Art Rave (UK), 44KW (CN), etc, contributing to a wider discourse on ritual, embodiment, and new media.

Press

“The future of Cyberfeminism: Interview with Yichu Li”-Whitehot Magazine of Contemporary Art

“Yichu Li: Afterimages of the Ancestor and the Poetics of Digital Memory”

“What Happens When AI Starts to Feel? Ask Yichu Li”

“Yichu Li - The inspiration behind a digital ritual”