Na Li

Li Na (b.1993) Experimental Animator and Artist, currently based in London.

Born in Hunan (China), worked in Beijing: As a Video Animation Producer, in Meng Jinghui's Theatre Studio; she worked at π Animation Studio and participated in the production of several animation film projects.

Na Li earned a Master of Animation degree at the Royal College of Art. Na's first-year animation Eczema, and graduation film The Moon Rises During the Day: Sound Sculpture, both received an Excellent. In Na's graduation dissertation, Dictionary of Image and Sound, she received a distinction.

Na's creations are an original response to sound/music. Na drew symbols to represent the sounds and instruments she heard and archived the sound visual languages, using abstract drawings to translate a poem. The motivation for Na's creations comes from boredom. Na Li as an artist aim to experience the nature of things, so as to be the closest to the things. She says that the most fundamental creation should belong to the creator's primaeval reaction to things. 

Na describes her work as a sound sculpture, and it is different to entity sound sculpture, like instruments. She questions the boundaries of sculpture: Can sculpture exist in the imagination? Is our memory/feelings can be a sculpture? Given today's inevitable trends in virtual reality, how will sculpture be defined in the future?

Na made live performances with experimental sound artists, experiencing the connection of human beings at the spiritual level in improvisation, believing in the natural reaction process currently produced by the feelings of the body to the environment, rather than thinking about the performance's results.

Her experimental animations are toward Festivals; The exploring process and performance content are geared toward art galleries. In the future, Na will explore the direction of Art therapy and focus on animation art and improvisational performance.