Contact:
Website: www.hehuiqi.com
Email: hehuiqi.artstudio@gmail.com
Instagram: @huiqi_he_
Based in:
New York City (USA)
Bio:
Huiqi is an interdisciplinary artist and researcher. Her recent work is rooted in local rituals and focuses on the shamanistic practices and ghost narratives of southern China, combining ethnographic research methods with personal bodily sensory experiences to create multimedia works. Huiqi’s practices searched for ways to inhabit within the cross-cultural gaps, like a pinball game ricocheting between dimensions, offering an open-up space where vision, feeling, experience, knowledge, emotion, and reflection bounce across each other, tracing dynamic paths of connection. Huiqi graduated with a BFA in Chinese Painting from the Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts, an MFA in Art Practice from the School of Visual Arts, and an MA in Visual Anthropology from Goldsmiths.
Context:
Huiqi got in touch with the collective through the Goldsmiths University network and joined KONTEKST after their film was screened at the film festival.
KONTEKST:
2025: Huiqi’s film The first person to disappear was screened at KONTEKST Film Fest: ARCHIVE.
PROJECTS:
The second person to stand up and clap (2023)
video · [length] · [countries of production] · [languages used]
A ghostly immigrant narrative unfolds in this experimental autoethnographic desktop documentary film, which starts with an online funeral to then focus on discussing the Chinese diaspora’s bodily experiences in digital time.
Read more about the project and watch the trailer here [link coming soon]
The first person to disappear (2022)
video · 7:56 · UK · Mandarin
Desktop essay film combining online footage with archival materials about Nuwa (the Chinese Great Mother Goddess), examining the harsh historical and contemporary realities surrounding women’s bodies in China, while also imagining the possibilities of a queer future.
Screened at KONTEKST Film Fest: ARCHIVE (Feb 2025).
Read more about the project and watch the full film here.