Echo, Kaiku, Huisheng  回声、回声、回声


2025 - Ongoing
Multi-Channel Video Installation, Sound, Performance


Preview of Echo / Kaiku / Huisheng (Ongoing, Updated on August 2025)


Echo / Kaiku / Huisheng
(Echo, echo, echo ) is an ongoing multi-channel sound–video project exploring migration, identity, and ecological listening through site-specific improvisational singing across geographies.

Helsinki-based interdisciplinary artist Tianjun Li (b. 1999, China) works across photography, voice, and performance. With a vocal range spanning over four octaves - transcending gender and species boundaries - Li has developed the Singing Walk practice since 2022, sharing non-verbal vocal improvisations online to an audience of 140k+ and 20 million views across Instagram and China’s “Instagram” - RedNote, forming a borderless archive that bridges time zones, spcaes, languages, and the internet firewalls.

Initiated in 2025, Echo / Kaiku / Huisheng records Li’s vocal dialogues with diverse soundscapes, from Nordic shores to Mediterranean islands. Each new performance begins by harmonising with the previous one, creating a layered, polyphonic “choir” that unfolds across time and geography.

The work addresses presence within global mobility, identity shifts, and environmental change, drawing on acoustic ecology and posthumanist perspectives. Each vocal act is both a site-specific response and a contribution to a collective resonance. The final form will be an immersive multi-channel installation, positioning audiences within a shifting, borderless choir - an open structure of self, others, and place in dialogue.