Often shot with disposable cameras by passersby, lee s most recognizable photographs including her hispanic project, are selfportraits reminiscent of those by cindy sherman. We use cookies to deliver our online services and to provide more personalized services to you. Projects, are 12 forays into what critics who write about lee inevitably call subcultures. Lee chose her american name when she came to new york in 1994. Lee, cherise smith examines the remarkable reach of the embodied idea and the use of strategies from conceptual art to traditional theater, and tactics from.
Lee blends photography and performance to investigate the fluidity of. Lee is a contemporary korean artist best known for her identity shifting photographs and videos of american subcultures. Lee s projects and the repackaging of the politics of identity, enacting others. The date stamp on the image suggests that the person responsible for it is likely using a consumergrade film camera, a.
She is best known for her projects series 19972001, in which she attempted to. For projects, a series of photographs that won her notoriety soon after they were first shown in group shows and art fairs in 1998. Lee is perhaps best known for projects series 19972001, in which she. Lee, born in south korea in 1970, blends performance with photography in much of her work. Lee transformed her own identity through a blend of clothes, makeup, tanning salons, diets and sheer determination to fit into cultural groups from the punks, tourists, lesbians, hispanics, yuppies, seniors, skateboarders and schoolgirls. Lee blends photography and performance to investigate the fluidity of individual and group identities. Discover delightful childrens books with prime book box, a subscription that.
Lees projects photographs taken from 1997 to 2001 and their entanglement with discourses of culture and identity. Lee and her photoessays into becoming part of a social monosphere, i decided to check this book out. Learn more about the piece and artist, and its final selling price. Nikki sixx books list of books by author nikki sixx. Projects, is part street photography, part performance art. Combining photography, performance, film, and multimedia, nikki s. Lee is best known for several series of photographs, entitled projects 19972001, in which she appears as a member of various american subcultures. In this series, a collection of snapshots captures lee in different guises as she engages with members of several cultural communities after whom she models her appearance. Lees work took her to the gold club in hartford, connecticut, for the exotic dancer project. On view exhibitions artists news publications gallery. Isbn 9783775710916 9783775710916 hardcover, hatje cantz publishers, 2001 philipp lachenmann. See more ideas about photography, contemporary photography and portrait. Parts these halved images clearly and disturbingly point out the empty spots, the striking dependencies and the ways that we all women particularly.
Koreanborn, new yorkbased conceptual artist nikki s. Projects hardcover september 2, 2001 by russell ferguson author, gilbert vicario author 4. Dressed and made up in different outfits, lee posed herself as a punk, yuppie, hispanic woman, or black hiphop star. Through impressive studies of four artists, adrian piper, eleanor antin, anna deavere smith, and nikki s. Lee transforms her appearance in an effort to place herself as a subject in her own photographs. Her acclaimed projects document her transformation sometimes drastic and. Lees projects and the repackaging of the politics of identity, enacting others. Consisting of simple documentarystyle snapshots, nikki neatly portrays her scrapbook of how she meshes seamlessly into another subgroup latinas, skaters, schoolgirls, senior citizens, punks by. Born lee seunghee in korea, lee dreamed of a career as a movie actress, before deciding filmmaking was a more practical and attainable artistic vocation.
On view exhibitions artists news art fairs publications gallery. Often shot with disposable cameras by passersby, lees most recognizable photographs including her hispanic project, are selfportraits reminiscent of those by cindy sherman. She graduated from the university of korea, studied at the fashion institute of technology, and received her masters degree from new york university. Lee moved to new york to attend the fashion institute of technology and to work as a fashion photographers. Lees projects and the repackaging of the politics of identity. In one project, she is a lesbian in plain wire eyeglasses, tank top, and frumpy jeans, intimately posing with a bleachedblond lover. Lee is one of the most original and creative artists out today.
In a series of extraordinary transformations, this young, koreanborn conceptual artist unfolds a multiplicity of lives and identities documented through the lens of her pointandshoot camera as she becomes a young punk in the east village, a. Other projects followed, and they are documented for the first time in this book. Now she examines the construction and interpretation of identity in works that combine performance and photography. In a series of extraordinary transformations, this young, koreanborn conceptual artist unfolds a multiplicity of lives and identities documented through the lens of her pointandshoot camera as she becomes a young punk in the east village, a connecticutbased exotic dancer, or a senior citizen. Dissertation or thesis carolina digital repository. The snapshots, taken by friends, document her temporary immersions into the roles of japanese east village punk in the punk project 1997, tough barrio chick in the hispanic project 1998, wall street professional for the yuppie. Enacting others is both an important primer on performance and an exploration of the u.
Dressed and made up in different outfits, lee posed herself as a punk, yuppie, hispanic. Lees projectsand the ongoing circulation of blackface. Reliable information about the coronavirus covid19 is available from the world health organization current situation, international travel. In a series of extraordinary transformations, this young, koreanborn conceptual artist unfolds a multiplicity of lives and identities documented through the lens of her pointand shoot camera as she becomes a young punk in the east village, a connecticutbased exotic dancer, or a senior citizen picking through thrift. Lees motives and final execution is a far cry from shermans. See all 2 formats and editions hide other formats and editions. She is a koreanborn artiste who lives and works in new york. Watch as she peels back the layers of her seemingly simplistic. Bei ihrer ersten arbeit dieser art, the tourist project, prasentierte sich nikki s. In a series of extraordinary transformations, this young, koreanborn conceptual artist unfolds a multiplicity of lives and.
Numerous and frequentlyupdated resource results are available from this search. In her series, the ohio project, photographer nikki s. Lee believes that essentially life itself is a performance. Lee succeeds in an almost uncanny way to carry her embodiments beyond masquerade and pastiche. Her acclaimed projects document her transformation sometimes drastic and assimilation into a wide range of subcultures and social and ethnic groupsfrom sophisticated ladies of the finest.
Oclc s webjunction has pulled together information and resources to assist library staff as they consider how to handle coronavirus. Like the tropical chameleon, lee has camouflaged herself into the environment of specific social groups. Projects 01 by ferguson, russell, martin, lesley, vicario, gilbert, lee, nikki isbn. Lee seemed to be everywhereand everyonein the late 90s and early 2000s. Lee, adrian piper, and anna deavere smith, cherise smith download citation file.
Its a nice little book but not nearly as good in scope as her projects book. The book is split between two projects parts and the bourgeoisiewith an easy in the middle. See more ideas about photography, contemporary photography and surrealist manifesto. In her projects series, lee transforms herself through dress, makeup, gesture and posture and then. The exotic dancer project 23 national museum of women. Lees work, the hispanic project 25, depicts a woman of somewhat ambiguous decent, definitely east asian, possibly also hispanic, sitting on a step outside, in an urban setting. Lee is a photojournalist who mimics the diverse cultures of the world. In the series, lee produced the hispanic project and the hip hop project, both of which she. Please note that artwork locations are subject to change, and not all works are on view at all times.
Unlike in parts where lee takes performs in scenes of intimacy, in projects she can be seen taking on various forms of ethnic drag. Of the two the bourgeoisie is the stronger, more developed work. For this and other projects, lee typically spent several months altering her appearance, style, and mannerisms in order to blend in with a specific social a groupswing dancers or. Lee is the only compensated and credited artist of projects. Lees projects allows for conversations around asianamerican identity and femininity, but also raises important questions and critiques about the limits of such a project. When we change our clothes to alter our appearance, the real act is the transformation of our way of expressionthe outward expression of our psyche.