Yi Li
About
Yi Li is a multidisciplinary artist working across sound, video, photography, performance, and interactive installation. Her practice centers on the expression of individual experience and the surfacing of marginalized voices within rapidly shifting social structures. Through embodied sound systems and non-linear interactions, she challenges dominant modes of language and perception, asking how silence, delay, and failure can constitute alternative modes of communication.
Influenced by feminist sound theory and the politics of emotion, her work engages with forms of expression that are often overlooked, untrained, or unspeakable. She constructs critical spatial environments where audience presence becomes part of the work’s tension—inviting not comprehension, but sensation. Her installations reframe interaction not as seamless feedback, but as emotional friction.
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