Lemon Guo

Lemon Guo (she/they) is an interdisciplinary artist and composer from the southeastern coast of China. Drawn to the visceral and evocative nature of the voice, she creates immersive and embodied works, ranging from performances, installations, and Virtual Reality (VR) films that engage the audience with environmental and socio-cultural issues. With a background in Chinese folk music and social psychology, Lemon holds an MFA in Sound Art from Columbia University, a BA in composition from the University of Virginia, and is currently a DMA student in composition at Stanford University. She has performed and exhibited her works internationally, in places such as Rubin Museum of Art, Sundance Film Festival, Oregon Shakespeare Festival (US), BBC Radio 3 (UK), IDFA (NL), Siggraph (CA) and ICMC(KR). Her recent projects include “Diagnosia”, a VR documentary she co-created with multidisciplinary artist Mengtai Zhang about Mengtai's teenage experience in an internet addiction camp in Beijing, where internet addiction and other youth issues were treated as a severe mental disorder with sometimes violent means. Her ongoing project “Loom”, a polyphonic opera in VR based on her work with Kam (Dong) women in southwest China, explores the emotional and political charge of polyphony and ethnic identities in China’s context. She is currently curious about imagining VR as a time travel and memory sharing machine, which transports the audience into alternate pasts and futures whose possibilities are obscured by dominant narratives. 

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