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Permaz: The Invisible Sports Team

The project aims to establish a female sports team merely existing in invisible spaces by surreal corporeal archiving through literature reviews, analyses of photo materials, studies of body dynamics, workshops, and research/discussion on Afghan cuisine (whose authenticity is almost unavailable) in collaboration with performers, social movement workers and artists. With collection of materials, process of speculation and scenario planning of development, the team portrays the athletic condition within a political secret chamber, embodying a tangible sense of deficiency and symbolizing the vacant political position. We expect to compose a work breaking through the extant genres and boundaries on the basis of performance installations, expanded cinemas, constructed ephemeral situations and participatory social experiments, as well as to enhance the obtrusiveness of the political fable from far away through open gatherings.

CREATORS

Val LEE

LEE is a director and artist who’s active in contemporary art and performing arts, adept at constructing ephemeral situations for viewers to enter the systems of live performance composed of action scripts, installations, sounds, hypnotic terms, complex structures and mise en scene, as well as forging political fables through performances with dreamlike atmosphere. Her works have been presented in Vernacular Institute (Mexico), House of World Cultures (Germany), Forum des Images and Grand Palais (France), ARIEL-Feminisms in the Aesthetics (Denmark), Taiwan Contemporary Culture Lab (Taiwan), National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts (Taiwan) and Hong-gah Museum (Taiwan), having participated in Taipei Arts Festival, Gwangju Biennale, Taiwan Art Biennial, Urban Nomad Film Festival and Month of Performance Art in Berlin. LEE has received subsidies from Hong Foundation (2021-2023), Liveworks Festival of Experimental Art (2020), Asian Cultural Council (2019) and National Culture and Arts Foundation (2020 & 2017), and has collectively won the 15th Taishin Arts Award with other collaborators.