GUI Ren is an artist, researcher, curator and musician whose interdisciplinary practice explores the relationship between sound, space, identity and gender. Currently a PhD candidate at the School of Creative Media, City University of Hong Kong, she works across soundscape composition, participatory soundwalks, spatial installations, live performance, and feminist curatorial approaches.
Her central research-creation initiative, the Female Soundscape Project, is a long-term platform that investigates how everyday listening practices among Chinese female new immigrants in Hong Kong reflect their experiences of adaptation, memory, and urban life. Beyond documenting these experiences, the project actively engages participants in sound-based creative practices—including field recording, soundwalking, listening workshops, and experimental sound composition—guiding them into the field of sound art and fostering new modes of expression and reflection through sound.
One of its key outcomes is the exhibition Sonic Transitions: Auditory Stories of Female New Immigrants in Hong Kong 聲音穿梭：香港女性新移民的聽覺故事 (2025), which GUI Ren curated and also participated in as an exhibiting artist. Supported by the Hong Kong Arts Development Council, the exhibition featured 10 sound-based works by 12 female artists, including sound installations, field recordings, and spatial compositions that explored memory, movement, and belonging through auditory means. As curator, GUI Ren conceptualized the exhibition as both a collective listening environment and a feminist platform, foregrounding the lived sonic experiences of migrant women navigating Hong Kong’s urban spaces.
GUI Ren is also the lead vocalist of the Hong Kong-based band CheeseIce, blending alternative pop with experimental sound. She has participated in art projects such as Sounding Tomorrow 2023 (co-organised with Hong Kong Creation Orchestra), DAT/ACT Exhibition 2022 (Hong Kong) and Sound Envelope 2021 (Hong Kong/London). Her research employs sound as the primary medium to explore the dynamic links between sound and identity, emotion and space. She is active as a researcher and has been featured in the book “Sonic (under)Currents and Currencies” by East and Southeast Asian Popular Music Press 2022. She has been invited as a speaker at various international conferences, such as IAPMS 2020 (Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia), IASPM XXI 2022 (Daegu, Korea), MuSA 2022 (London, UK), IsaScience 2023 (Vienna, Austria), etc.
桂仁是一位藝術家、研究者、策展人與音樂人，其跨領域的藝術實踐聚焦於聲音、空間、身份與性別之間的關係。她現為香港城市大學創意媒體學院的聲音藝術博士候選人，長期從事聲音景觀作曲、參與式聲音漫步、空間聲音裝置、現場演出以及女性主義策展實踐。
她的核心研究與創作平台《女性聲音景觀計劃》是一項長期計劃，旨在探討內地女性新移民在香港的日常聆聽實踐如何反映其適應過程、記憶建構與城市生活的經驗。該計劃不僅記錄這些聲音經驗，更積極帶領參與者進入聲音藝術實踐，包括實地錄音、聲音散步、聆聽工作坊與實驗性聲音創作，引導她們以聲音作為創造與反思的新方法。
該計劃的重要成果之一為2025年展覽《聲音穿梭：香港女性新移民的聽覺故事》（Sonic Transitions: Auditory Stories of Female New Immigrants in Hong Kong），由桂仁策展並參展。此展覽獲得香港藝術發展局資助，展出了12位女性藝術家的10件聲音作品，涵蓋聲音裝置、田野錄音與空間聲音創作，從聽覺切入記憶、遷徙與歸屬的主題。作為策展人，桂仁將本展構想為一個集體聆聽場域與女性主義平台，強調移民女性在香港城市空間中的聲音經驗與能動性。
桂仁亦為香港另類流行樂隊 起司冰(CheeseIce) 的主唱，試圖於將實驗音樂與流行音樂相結合。她曾參與多個藝術計劃，包括2023年與香港創樂團合辦的《Sounding Tomorrow》、2022年《DAT/ACT展覽》（香港）以及2021年《Sound Envelope》（香港／倫敦）。其研究以聲音為核心媒介，探討聲音與身份、情感與空間之間的動態關係。她亦活躍於學術界，曾入選東南亞流行音樂出版社出版的《Sonic (under)Currents and Currencies》（2022），並於多個國際研討會發表，包括2020年IAPMS（馬來西亞吉隆坡）、2022年IASPM XXI（韓國大邱）、2022年MuSA（英國倫敦）及2023年IsaScience（奧地利維也納）等。
Contact: gui.ren@my.cityu.edu.hk