Li Yi-Fan

Li Yi-Fan’s What Is Your Favorite Primitive (2023) narrates “a death match” between the artist and their software while grappling with the production process. In a fight between social and ethical concerns, it also raises questions of image production and communication.

How Do You Turn This On

If You Can’t Larp, You’ll Cry - is an experimental video performance work featuring Li Yi Fan, Harrison Hall and Mat Spisbah. The work scrutinizes the shift in digital media production brought about by the subscription economy and the implications of not owning but merely accessing software. It explores how these tools have changed the way we communicate, and created new desires for understanding and connection. Through the work, the group speculates that services and hacks to use video technology could construct a new politics of life by projecting a totality yet to come.