Gihak ArtLab
Ming-Chieh LEE
Mingchieh LEE is an independent choreographer born in 1989 in Taiwan. She graduated with MFA in Dance Choreography from Taipei National University of the Arts. Her recent artworks are focusing on the phenomenon of “Nomadicity of current generation” that people long for moving and yet search for sense of security in it at the same time. She usually focused on the dynamic of body, object and things as the main mediums for her research related to memory and time, and further discussed the flowing performativity of body and space. In 2019, She won Man-Fei Dance Awards from Cloud Gate Dance Theatre and started her serial works of “Make-up Project”, such as Trivial, scattered, all over here and there (2020), Sadness that lasts for a long time period of time, often without any obvious reason (2020), Fridge is there (2020), and Hey! Where to stop along the way? (2021)
Baï LEE
Baï Lee is a Tainan-born artist with backgrounds in mass communications and arts. She has been integrating her video works with a wide diversity of fields. Her creations are full of deconstructed symbols of media ideology from life experiences, and composed stories based on her historical field survey.
Baï Lee’s photographic work has been winning recognitions in many photography awards domestically and internationally – IPA (International Photography Awards) Professional Honorable Mention, 1839 Gallery Young Photographer Award, shortlisted in Photographer's Forum Magazine Spring Photography Contest.
During her 6-year stay in France, she was selected as one of the young artists to exhibit artworks in La Nuit de la Création (2015) organized by Versailles City Government and worked as a special journalist in Paris for Taiwan Macroview TV (2015-2017). She was also a guitar performer of the Taipei City Street Artist (2006-2018). Baï Lee is now earning her spellcasting ability in Yao Shan (Elf Hill, aka Taipei National University of the Arts) for New Media Art.
◇ Artist Website: https://mingchiehlee.weebly.com/
◇ Residency Period: Jan 8, 2022 - Feb 20, 2022
