"What is performance art?"
Lee Wen is the founding member of the Independent Archive and will give a talk about "What is performance art?".
Lee Wen is a fine art artist working primarily in performance art, or mixed media installation. Associated with Artists Village – an important avant-garde artists’ group in Singapore – since 1989, he later forged a distinguished individual practice as he gained international recognition.
Lee has been represented at various international art events such as the Busan Biennale (South Korea, 2004), the 3rd Asia Pacific Triennial (Brisbane, 1999), the Sexta Bienal de La Habana (1997), the Kwang Ju Biennial (1995), the 4th Asian Art Show (Fukuoka, 1994), and the National Review of Live Art (Scotland, 2004 and 2005). Lee’s installations and performances often expose and question the ideologies and value systems of individuals as well as social structures.
He had been an Associate Artist with the Substation and an honorary member of the Artists Village. He has been participating with Black Market International, an international performance art group, since 2000. In 2003, Lee began ‘The Future of Imagination’, an international performance art festival which includes forum, documentation and presentation of performance art in Singapore. His works have been collected by the Singapore Art Museum and National Art Gallery, Singapore, Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, Fukuoka Asian Art Museum, Fukuoka, Queensland Art Museum, Brisbane and
Lee was awarded the Cultural Medallion in 2005.
Lee Wen is a fine art artist working primarily in performance art, or mixed media installation. Associated with Artists Village – an important avant-garde artists’ group in Singapore – since 1989, he later forged a distinguished individual practice as he gained international recognition.
Lee has been represented at various international art events such as the Busan Biennale (South Korea, 2004), the 3rd Asia Pacific Triennial (Brisbane, 1999), the Sexta Bienal de La Habana (1997), the Kwang Ju Biennial (1995), the 4th Asian Art Show (Fukuoka, 1994), and the National Review of Live Art (Scotland, 2004 and 2005). Lee’s installations and performances often expose and question the ideologies and value systems of individuals as well as social structures.
He had been an Associate Artist with the Substation and an honorary member of the Artists Village. He has been participating with Black Market International, an international performance art group, since 2000. In 2003, Lee began ‘The Future of Imagination’, an international performance art festival which includes forum, documentation and presentation of performance art in Singapore. His works have been collected by the Singapore Art Museum and National Art Gallery, Singapore, Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, Fukuoka Asian Art Museum, Fukuoka, Queensland Art Museum, Brisbane and
Lee was awarded the Cultural Medallion in 2005.