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Transmedia Artist: Visual | Sound | Performance
10018751@network.rca.ac.uk
Instagram:iimakira

Ningrui Liu (also known as Akira) is a London-based transmedia artist working across sound, film, performance, dance, and spoken word. With a background in film editing and visual media, her practice explores interdisciplinarity through collaborations with experimental musicians, improvisers, and performance collectives. She is particularly interested in chance, process, and the unknown, often using moving image and live performance to create immersive, time-based works.

She is also a member of Noisy Women Presents, a London-based collective of experimental women and non-binary artists. In 2024, the group was awarded a Serpentine Support Structures fellowship, recognising their impact on communities and commitment to socially urgent, experimental practice. Through this platform, Liu collaborates on boundary-pushing performances that merge sound, film, and live improvisation while amplifying underrepresented voices in the arts.

Her career began in film editing, where she worked as an editor and VFX editor on feature films, documentaries, and trailers in Beijing. This experience informs her ability to bring rhythm, clarity, and structure to complex experimental projects. Since relocating to the UK, she has expanded her practice into interdisciplinary performance and moving image, with projects ranging from a live visual collaboration with Steve Beresford at Café OTO to an improvised music-visual performance at Golden Goose Theatre.

Her work has been presented at leading experimental and cross-disciplinary venues including Café OTO, Hundred Years Gallery, Bridewell Theatre. Increasingly, Liu is developing her own projects that test the limits of cinema and performance, seeking to expand what storytelling can be in nowadays.



10018751@network.rca.ac.uk
Instagram:iimakira