Bio
Linda Jiayun Gao-Lenders (高佳韵, b. 1995, they/them) is a Chinese-German artist working across performance, sound, participatory and site-specific formats. Their practice explores how diasporic experiences resonate through bodies, spaces and inherited languages, often drawing on archival materials and interviews. Listening as a transformative practice, and the speculative space between documentary and poetic forms, are central to their work. They are a founding member of footnotes collective and create soundscapes for film and performance with the queer synthesizer collective sad sinʞ society.
Project Description
Linda Jiayun Gao-Lenders’ project at the
China Modern Art Archive approaches the archive as a site of layered memory and investigates how it shapes identity and historical narratives through listening and speculative artistic methods. Combining archival documents and field recordings, the research connects the ’85 Art Movement with a sonic mapping of the archive’s location in Beijing’s 798 Art Zone. The project asks how listening can become a method of remembering and imagining possible futures.
