about The Rite of Spring (Le Sacre du Printemps)
by Lee Wen
Spring begets expectations of changes. It is in the air, the oceans, terra
firma and life organisms; in creatures like us. I languidly brazen out
that I have a sick body. And so do the earth, the society, and the world.
The discoveries of remedies for incurable diseases are confronted with
unheard ailments, bugs and viruses, endless conflicts that seem to escalate
just when resolution is close at hand, the backlash of rigid bigoted fundamentals
recall and stunt the growth of our liberated spirits, relieves us not the
Sisyphean task this human existence. I accept it and reject it. I ignore
it and deal with it. For changes will not come without challenge and resistance.
So I will to dance, to activate, to perform the body in sickness, in its
primitive urgings, in perennial refutation of tyrannical status quos
and repressive fates, seeking resolution of conflicts to mollify the
inconsistencies for the reconciliation of contradictions that is yet to
be.
Lee Wen has been exploring different strategies of time-based and performance
art since 1989. His work has been strongly motivated by social investigations
as well as inner psychological directions using art to interrogate stereotypical
perceptions of culture and society. He is a contributing factor in The
Artists Village alternative in Singapore and had been participating in
Black Market international performance collective.
He is co-organizer of “Future of Imagination” (2003), an international
performance art event and “R.I.T.E.S.- Rooted In The Ephemeral Speak” (2009),
a platform to support and develop performance art practices, discourse,
infrastructure and audiences in Singapore. He has never been to Patagonia.
The Future of Imagination website: www.foi.sg
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