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LEE Kai Chung 李繼忠

LEE Kai Chung李繼忠

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Drawing on a life lived within colonial and post-colonial transitions, Lee Kai Chung performs artistic research on the entanglement of geopolitics, coloniality and their affective fallout. Lee traces the permeability between agency and non-agency—a fluid, often volatile exchange between the individual and the structures of power, while exploring the shared vulnerabilities and hidden echoes between human and more-than-human worlds.

What began as an exploration of postcolonial archival systems has evolved into an interdisciplinary methodology. Lee’s research-based practice spans moving image, critical fabulation, publishing, and public engagement.

In 2017, Lee initiated a hexalogy of practice-led research projects under the theme of Displacement. This series scrutinises the flow of people and materials under the colonial matrix of power, expanding the concept of displacement into its affective, transgenerational, and anachronic dimensions.

In his series The Mountains and the Phantoms, Lee proposes a cosmology viewed as an ‘ecology of relations’. Within this web, he deciphers the Asian natural environment and more-than-human actors as a vital system of self-healing and renewal—one that persists and regenerates despite the devastating impacts of geopolitical conflict and the relentless pursuit of modernity.

李繼忠的藝術研究關注地緣政治、殖民性及其情感糾纏。結合自身殖民與後殖民的生命經驗,李氏探討人和「多於人」(more-than-human)如何面對生、死、跟問題同存。

李氏早年從後殖民語境下的檔案系統與歷史書寫切入,逐步建立起一套以檔案研究為基礎的方法論。這套方法隨後拓展至跨學科的藝術實踐,包括影像、批判性虛構、出版、檔案建構與公眾參與。

李氏於2024年獲 The Consortium for the Humanities and the Arts South-east England(CHASE)博士獎學金,以及第18屆釜山國際藝術錄像藝術節(BIVAF)<Selection 2024> 大獎;2023年獲第15屆沙迦雙年展與2023桃源國際藝術獎獲「優選獎」;2022年獲哈佛大學皮博迪考古學和民族學博物館頒發 The Robert Gardner Fellowship in Photography。