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Creation as Curation: A Practitioner’s Redefinition of Public Art

  • Time
    13 July 2025, 15.30–17.00
  • Location
    4F, A4 Art Museum
  • Artist
    LIU Yi

Introduction

Through his extensive public art practice across diverse environments—including cities, local communities, rural areas, and virtual worlds—artist Yi Liu shares his exploration of the ‘Creation as Curation’ methodology.
He analyses how to activate the social vitality of an artwork through ‘identity switching’—carefully curating relational networks, participatory processes, and sustainable mechanisms. Furthermore, he explores the inclusive evolutionary path of public art amidst the rapid iterations of contemporary technology.

  • Artist Profile

    Professor LIU Yi

    Artist, Public Art Curator, and Founder of Birds Radio. He is the Director of the Public Art and Design Lab at the Shanghai Institute of Design and Innovation (SIDI), a Researcher for the International Public Art Association (IPA), a Guest Professor at the College of Design and Innovation, Tongji University, and the Founder of 61CREATIVE.
    LIU Yi explores the themes and relationships between body and space, spirit and matter, the individual and the public, and the sense of cultural locality versus detachment through various creative mediums including painting, sculpture, installation, video, and performance.
    His daily digital paintings on mobile devices feature a unique style that blends classical forms with contemporary colours, reflecting his curiosity about life, mythic imagination, personal memories, and lived experiences. At the same time, he is fascinated by the narrative relationship between digital media, physical materials, and creative themes, resulting in a prolific body of two-dimensional and spatial artworks set within the context of daily life and social landscapes.

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