I HAVE A FRIEND

Lecture Performance

The lecture performance I have a friend… begins with friendship as a way of encountering the pressures of self-formation and self-management under neoliberal conditions. Moving around shame, care, and the feeling of failing to be available for one another, the performance asks what kind of space friendship can still hold — and what it might make possible.

Mainstream People

2025, 52:05 min

Approaching the mainstream through affect, this video documents the workshop in which a group of 7 people — growing up in China and female socialized — engaged in conversation spanning 2 months. It’s about struggles in daily life, feeling weird, the desire for connection, and tension and rupture.

Lecture Performance
1 May 2026
6-7.30 pm

Screening
1 May 2026, 7.30-9 pm
3 May 2026, 1-6 pm

Ruxin Liu is an artist and facilitator working with workshops, video, and collaborative formats. Rooted in queer feminist perspectives, their practice focuses on negative affect, especially shame as a method to reimagine speech, space, and relation. Their work explores how emotion and collective reflection can transform social dynamics. Ruxin studied Fine Arts at the University of Fine Arts Hamburg (BA/MA) and the State Academy of Fine Arts Stuttgart, and is currently pursuing a PhD at the University of Fine Arts Hamburg.