Hailing Liu

Graduates

Master of Fine Arts in Studio, Film, Video, New Media, and Animation

Hailing Liu (b.1997, Shenzhen) is a mixed-media artist based in Chicago. She is mainly working on video compositions and installation. By combining raw, found footage and virtual images, she always plays with meanings of cultural surfaces and explores how they are changing and constructed in our living world in humorous, dark and absurd ways.

Hailing Liu - The first United Assembly closes today

The first United Assembly closes today, 2020, a piece of news, 2:57 mins

Hailing Liu - Crossing Planes (in progress)

Crossing Planes (in progress), 2020, moving images

Hailing Liu - Little Garden (in progress)

Little Garden (in progress), 2020, moving images

Hailing Liu - Exquisite Misery (Ver. Paper money Print)

Exquisite Misery (Ver. Paper money Print), 2018, Silk screen printings on rice paper

The first United Assembly closes today, 2020, Video, 02:57 mins.

Impossible dream is a piece of work with an idea of intercutting car commercials to discuss cultural surfaces and their meanings created by the media. By combining clips grabbed from different car commercials as well as adding my own compositions, I create an absurd fantasy with ambiguous narration as a reflection for audiences, to examine meanings conveyed by the media. The background music is also grabbed from a car commercial which uses the song, “The Impossible Dream,” originally composed by Mitch Leigh & Joe Darion.

Impossible Dreams, 2019, 02:18 mins.

Impossible dream is a piece of work with an idea of intercutting car commercials to discuss cultural surfaces and their meanings created by the media. By combining clips grabbed from different car commercials as well as adding my own compositions, I create an absurd fantasy with ambiguous narration as a reflection for audiences, to examine meanings conveyed by the media. The background music is also grabbed from a car commercial which uses the song, “The Impossible Dream,” originally composed by Mitch Leigh & Joe Darion.

An Unknown Accident, 2019, 02:16 mins.

A fabricated witness of plane crash on Montrose Beach in Chicago.

I make art as a way to pour out some shit that cannot be expressed in usual ways.
My favorite food is okra.

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