LEE WEN (from Singapore)

VISITING INTERNATIONAL PERFORMANCE ARTISTS WORKSHOP

School of the Museum of Fine Arts public performance

Sunday, Feb 18, 2007

3PM

This program is a culmination of Lee Wen’s five-day workshop and interaction with SMFA performance students.
Produced in conjunction with the SMFA Performance Area.

Lee Wen’s performances and installations often expose and question the ideologies and value systems of individuals as well as social structures.  His work attempts to combine Southeast Asian contexts with international currents in contemporary art.  His early practice was associated with the Artists Village, an alternative art group in Singapore and later forged a more individuated artistic career.  Lee has been represented at the Busan Biennale (2004), the 3rd Asia Pacific Triennial in Brisbane (1999), the Sexta Bienal de La Habana, (1997), the Kwang Ju Biennial (1995), the 4th Asian Art Show, Fukuoka (1994) Sea Art Festival, Busan Biennale (S.Korea, 2004), National Review of Live Art (Scotland, 2004 & 2005).

Born in Singapore, Lee now lives and works extensively on a global circuit and based between Singapore and Tokyo.  Lee’s enthusiasm as an artist goes beyond his solo work and continues to be active and involved with the new generation in spawning possibilities of collaborations, network and discourse.  In 2003 Lee initiated, with the support of the Artists Village, “The Future of Imagination.” an international performance art event which includes forum, documentation and presentation of performance art in Singapore. Since 1999 Lee has also worked with Black Market International an innovative, ground-breaking, utopian performance art “group” comprising artists from various countries and cultural backgrounds.  Lee was awarded the “Cultural Medallion,” Singapore’s cultural award for artistic excellence in 2005.