Zikun Li

                

  • Tender Mechanisms
Identity, Website
  • 2025 Jul.
  • Still Bright
Film, 3D, Installation
  • 2025 Jun.
  • Helwa Ya Baladi
Film
  • 2025 Mar.
  • Will Have Been Loved
Film, 3D
  • 2024 Dec.
  • Grid in Grid
Publication, Film, Typeface 格子自传
  • 2024 Jul.

  • Find Water
Identity 找水2024 Feb.

  • Speak Silently
Publication, Sound 寂静的轰鸣
  • 2024 Jan.
  • Pig’s Sky, Pig’s Happiness
Film, Installation
  • 2023 Aug.
  • Straight’s War
Film
  • 2023 May.
  • Endless Running
Installation
  • 2022 Dec.
  • Brithdayism
Website
  • 2022 Jul.
  • Great Phallus
Art Direction
  • 2022 Feb.
  • Under the Holy Mountain
3D, Game
  • 2021 Jul.
 

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Birthdayism

 
 
“Carnival celebrates marks the suspension of all hierarchical rank, privileges, norms, and prohibitions.” — Mikhail Bakhtin, Rabelais and His World.

In a huge system that is highly modernized, we need a way to revolutionize the stereotyped and serious daily life in society—"Birthdayism" is a concept.  The "Birthdayism" movement extracts the three elements of birthdays — cake, candle, and wish, then connects everyday life through "Everything is cake," "Everything is candle," and "Wish everything."  Make the unconventional ritual of birthdays an everyday lifestyle! Expand birthday possibilities! Celebrate everything as resistance! Revelry!

This project uses an interactive website and going viral as a form of digital activism, launching an outre and democratic participatory revolution. The website includes a parade as a homepage, a clear manifesto, a guideline to guide people’s practice, and a Tower to collect wishes. 

Digital Virus
Web Home - Parade
Web - Manifesto
Web - Action Guideline 
Video:  Demo of Collective Interactive Performance