Liwen 丽雯 سليمة

Liwen Lian is a Hui-Chinese 回族 multimedia artist and designer who holds a Bachelor of Interior Design (Honours) from RMIT University. Their practice investigates how visual culture and material culture—objects, technologies, and environments—shape, distort, and reimagine identities. Through a design-led approach, they navigate between selfhood and systemic structures, weaving narratives from fragments of personal and collective memories. Liwen has lead workshop and they were a Panelist at the City Stories (A project by UnStudio) at MPavilion. They recently completed the Young Creatives Lab residency at SIGNAL Arts, supported by the City of Melbourne.

Areas of Interest:
Autoethnography, Fiction, Alienation, Migration, Subculture, Language, Urbanisation, Social Progress, Production and Product, Globalisation, Ecology, Non-Human Entities, Value System, High and Low Techonology, Queer Thoery, Cold War Histories, Soviet Architecture, Hui People in China, Eastern Philosophy

Photo by Jiaxi Wang

“This is a struggle over life and death, but the boundary between science fiction and social reality is an optical illusion...Single vision produces worse illusions than double vision or many-headed monsters... In our present political circumstances, we could hardly hope for more potent myths for resistance and recoupling.”

A Cyborg Manifesto: Science, Technology and Socialist-Feminism in the Late 20th Centry, 1985, Donna Haraway

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