View of Eerawai: A Sound Art Concert at CAFAM

Integrating multiple media with environmental elements, "Echoes of a Voyage" is a featured program by Lyu Zhi-Qiang, a driver and owner of an old Jetta car, DJ and sound collector, as well as a teacher who imparts "principles" at the Central Academy of Fine Arts. Lyu presented a concert themed on "Eerawai" at CAFA Art Museum on March 18, through which he invited visitors to immerse themselves in a sensory journey woven from light, shadow and sound. 

A Guided Tour of Echoes of a Voyage

He combines ancient perspective techniques with the rulers, compasses, and ropes of craftsmen to repeatedly carry out hands-on spatial surveying. Intricate musical arrangements are applied in his work to construct a temporary space open to the public, where the audience was invited to become the "I" within this field, that is, the subject of experience.

Exhibition View of Echoes of a Voyage

Curator Wang Wen-Ting introduced at the opening ceremony that "Echoes of a Voyage" as Lyu Zhi-Qiang's solo project in EXPAND+CURATE=ECURATE Young Experimental Project Space, received the support from CAFA Young Faculty Seed Program. It integrates sound, painting, ready-made objects, installation, and environmental elements, spanning both visual and auditory dimensions. It demonstrates how the multiple identities of an individual in contemporary life escape from a fragmented state in a post-historical era, which can be reshaped through the cyclical and rotating structures of loops in electronic music, thereby reconstructing personal experiences and achieving individualized historical narration. 

Curator Wang Wen-Ting (right) and Lyu Zhi-Qiang (left) respectively spoke at the opening ceremony.

On the one hand, the multiple identity map of the artist is clearly presented in the exhibition; on the other hand, this presentation of multiple identities adopts a low-key, yet restrained, de-dramatized theatrical strategy. Attendees are invited to join a journey wherein every fragment of experience and memory shared by the artist becomes part of public experiences and memories, and maybe, at a moment when the "instantaneous" and the "eternal" suddenly coincide, which may open up new possibilities to reshape one's own value and historical narrative.

Yu Yang, Vice President of the Central Academy of Fine Arts delivered a speech.

Han Wenchao,  Secretary of the CAFAM Party Branch, delivered a speech.

Yang Jie, Chief of the Faculty Affairs Department (Personnel Office) of CAFA and Teacher Development Centre of CAFA, delivered a speech.

Feng Mengbo, Dean of the School of Experimental Art and Sci-Tech Art, delivered a speech.

Prof. Zhang Guolong from the School of Experimental Art and Sci-Tech Art

Gao Gao, Deputy Director of CAFA Art Museum, served as the host.

The Group Photo of Honored Guests

About the Exhibition

Dates: March 13–April 20, 2026

Location: 3rd Floor, Gallery C, CAFA Art Museum

Hosted by: CAFA Art Museum Faculty Affairs Department ( Personal Office) of CAFA, Teacher Department Centre of CAFA

Academic Host: Feng Mengbo

Curator: Wang Wen-Ting

Artist: Lyu Zhi-Qiang

Visual Design: Zhao Bryce

Courtesy of CAFA Art Museum, edited (EN) by CAFA ART INFO.