Ginger Liu

MFA Photography

I Have Lost Myself/Give Me the Key is a multi-channel video installation exploring the artist process and living with dementia.

I Have Lost Myself/Give Me the Key, is a powerful and disturbing compilation from 300+ videos, depicting the raw and honest portrait of living with dementia and the blurring of artist process.

I Have Lost Myself documents the daily rehearsals and technical experiments of Give Me the Key, filmed daily over thirty days, for a future live art performance. What unfolds is the colliding of performance and the every day as the artist slowly loses her sense of self.

I Have Lost Myself is a powerful and disturbing statement on family relationships and responsibility, where art and the every day inevitably collide.

Give Me the Key is a performance of psychotic demands and emotions caused by Alzheimer's disease. Originally intended as a live performance, the audio and video installation is part of the accompanied I Have Lost Myself thirty-day film project which presents the everyday rehearsals and confessions of the artist process.

Inspired by Carl Dreyer's "The Passion of Joan of Arc" (1928), performances are filmed in extreme close-up to emphasize the actor's emotions and invoke audience response.

Ginger Liu is an American born, British raised visual artist of Chinese descent specializing in photography, moving image, performance, and installation. Liu's work investigates the intersections of memory, identity, and performance. 

Ginger Liu is currently developing her first feature which traces her mother’s memories of Liverpool and Los Angeles.

She divides her time between London, Los Angeles, and Liverpool and is the founder of Ginger Media & Entertainment.

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