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Contemporary Art Practice (MA)

Dengke Li 李登科

each individual stands as a vessel of perception, capturing the essence of emotions that ow like liquid
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each individual stands as a vessel of perception, capturing the essence of emotions that ow like liquid
each individual stands as a vessel of perception, capturing the essence of emotions that ow like liquid
each individual stands as a vessel of perception, capturing the essence of emotions that ow like liquid

Medium:

Experimental Film

Size:

Dimensions Variable
create a hard shell for herself in this world, disguise herself and live with illusions.
create a hard shell for herself in this world, disguise herself and live with illusions.
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create a hard shell for herself in this world, disguise herself and live with illusions.
create a hard shell for herself in this world, disguise herself and live with illusions.
create a hard shell for herself in this world, disguise herself and live with illusions.

Medium:

Experimental Film

Size:

Dimensions Variable
love sucks
love sucks
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love sucks
love sucks
love sucks

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Experimental Film

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Dimensions Variable
you taste like a bowl of soup on the table of time
you taste like a bowl of soup on the table of time
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you taste like a bowl of soup on the table of time
you taste like a bowl of soup on the table of time
you taste like a bowl of soup on the table of time

Medium:

Experimental Film

Size:

Dimensions Variable
Life is just chasing elusive, futile winds
Life is just chasing elusive, futile winds
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Life is just chasing elusive, futile winds
Life is just chasing elusive, futile winds
Life is just chasing elusive, futile winds

Medium:

Experimental Film

Size:

Dimensions Variable

Dengke Li (Kiki) (b. 1996, China) is a Performance and Moving Image artist living and working in London, UK. 

李登科,中国著名行为艺术家,6


Academic Achievement

2021-2023 Royal College of Art — MA Contemporary Art Practice

2018-2021 The University of Auckland — BFA with First Class Honours

2017-2016 Communication University of China — BA Director


Selected Group Exhibition

2023 | 707 PRAY ROOM 「707私密马赛」, The Crypt Gallery LONDON, UK

2023 | ROOTLESS COSMOPOLITANS「她方倦遊」, Tate Modern, LONDON, UK

2023 | THAT I MIGHT TASTE BEFORE I’M FED 「吃你的脑子好吗」, BargeHouse OXO TOWER, LONDON, UK

2023 | A BOWL OF SOUP ON THE TABLE OF TIME「时间桌上的一碗汤」,Batsford Gallery, LONDON, UK

2023 | SHADOW「十分之下面具钟」, 34 LUCKY POT, LONDON, UK

2022 | WHAT A GOOD DAY「好日子」Prince Charles Cinema, LONDON, UK / Millennium Art Gallery, LONDON, UK / MAS Gallery, FOSHAN, CHINA

2022 | 28 DAYS WITHOUT SOCIAL MEDIA「戒断28天」, CAFA ART MUSEUM, BEIJING, CHINA / TTTB Artist-Run Space

2022 | TO BUILD A WORLD WITHOUT THEM「建造一个没有他们的世界」Dyson Gallery,LONDON, UK

2022 | UTOPIAN HOTPOT「酉时深渊」Safehouse 1, LONDON, UK

2022 | HELLO HUMAN「你好人类」Espacio Gallery, LONDON, UK


Career Progression

Co-Founder of GOLDEN ALCHEMIST GALLERY

Degree Details

School of Arts & HumanitiesContemporary Art Practice (MA)Public SphereRCA2023 at Truman Brewery

Truman Brewery, F Block, Ground, first and second floors

kiki

Kiki's oeuvre, straddling the realms of performance, film and public art, embodies a unique synthesis of interdisciplinary elements. Drawing from her experiential standpoint as a young Chinese woman, who has spent significant durations abroad, her work delves into crucial facets of costume, gender, class, persona, and self through the lens of psychology, philosophy, and contemporary prose poetry.


A significant portion of her explorations concerns the natural world and the human being's constituent personalities, their interconnections and fragmentation. Emblematic of her oeuvre, Kiki and her dedicated followers, known as the "Kikiists", pursue the renunciation of artistic ideals within tangible reality, striving instead for the construction of a utopia.


This imagined utopia presents a space where both sensuality and darkness can be encapsulated and liberated within the artistic domain, serving a dual purpose of healing the authentic inner self and facilitating empathetic connections with the audience. It is a complex construct, combining elements of a game machine head, a human body, and a repentant deity's heart prepared to confront its own hypocrisy and desire.


Adhering to the principles of absurdism, Kiki's work exhibits a recurring trinity of contrasting, tangible environmental imagery, highly saturated bespoke costumes and props, and innovative experimental soundtracks. These are the key elements that constitute the fabric of Kiki's distinct artistic language and vision.


李的作品,跨越了行为表演,实验影片和公共艺术的领域,体现了跨学科元素的独特综合。她的作品从她作为一个年轻的中国女性的经验角度出发,通过心理学、哲学和当代散文诗的视角,深入研究服装、性别、阶级、角色和自我等关键方面。


她的探索有很大一部分是关于自然世界和人类的组成个性,它们之间的相互联系和分裂。琪琪和她的忠实追随者(被称为 "KIKI主义者")在她的作品中具有象征意义,他们追求放弃有形的现实中的艺术理想,而是努力构建一个乌托邦。


这个想象中的乌托邦呈现了一个空间,在这个空间里,感性和黑暗都可以在艺术领域里得到囊括和解放,达到治愈真实的内在自我和促进与观众的共鸣联系的双重目的。它是一个复杂的构造,结合了游戏机头、人类肉体和准备面对自己的虚伪和欲望的忏悔的真神之心等元素。


秉承荒诞主义的原则,琪琪的作品展现了一个反复出现的三位一体的对比性、有形的环境图像,高度饱和的定制服装和道具,以及创新的实验性背景音乐。这些都是构成KIKI独特的艺术语言和愿景的关键元素。

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