Frontier, Border and No Man's Land

Eine Lecture Performance von Lee Kai Chung, organisiert von Noit Banai, Professor of Diaspora Aesthetics, Institut für Kunst- und Kulturwissenschaften, im Rahmen von “Diaspora Kitchen”.

Lee Kai Chung performs artistic research on the entanglement of geopolitics, coloniality and its affective fallout. Lee lives and works in London, UK. From his early explorations of postcolonial archival systems for historiography, Lee has developed an archival methodology that extends to interdisciplinary research-based creative practices, including critical fabulation, publishing, archives-making and public engagement.

In 2017, Lee initiated a hexalogy of consecutive practice-led research projects under the theme of ‘Displacement’– based on the understanding of human migration and material flow in the shadow of the colonial matrix of power, the projects scrutinise the agency of Displacement, expand the perception of the notion to affective, anachronic, transgenerational and geopolitical aspects of human conditions entangled in Eurasian problematics.

Lee was awarded the Consortium for the Humanities and the Arts Southeast England (CHASE) doctoral studentships from the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) (2024), and the 18th Busan International Video Art Festival <Selection 2024> prize (2024); Honourable Mention in Sharjah Biennial 15 (2023) and Taoyuan International Art Award (2023); The Robert Gardner Fellowship in Photography from Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology of Harvard University (2022), the Altius Fellowship from Asian Cultural Council (2020); the annual Award for Young Artist (Visual Arts) from Hong Kong Arts Development Council (2018), and WMA Commission (Transition) (2017).