They Call Me Witch
Artist & Works
Lanyun Huang（Finch)


Lanyun Huang (Finch) is a London-based queer artist and researcher working across live art ,performance and curation. Taking multiple persona, she creates conceptually driven, often durational performances in everyday or disruptive settings (as Lanyun), and theatrical works rooted in queer nightlife, collective energy, and folk culture (as Finch). Her practice engages with queer identity, taboo, improvisation, and the shifting dynamics between performer and audience, grounded in a critical reflection on social structures and the politics of visibility.

website:wenjunxie.com
ins: @lanyun.h @finchy973
小红书： Finchy李小膏



rite in lingering ground  (2025)
 
 Performance , 20mins
Functioning as a companion piece to artist on going project The Rat Eater(2025), this work unfolds a ritual of queer archaeology, excavating desires that have long been buried under social regulation. Through actions such as breathing and the burning of skin, the artist releases queer affect from the dual constraints of pathologization and romanticization.

The performance resists becoming a mere re-enactment of pain. Instead, it transforms suffering into a non-productive mode of existence, one that refuses to be healed and rejects aesthetic consumption.

Within a minimal ritual structure, the work constructs a distinct queer temporality, allowing emotional experiences excluded from dominant narratives to persist, not seeking recognition, but enduring like a ghost.