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Landing ON-AIR

To be initiated in 2026 by Baï LEE and Ming-Chieh LEE, the core creators of Ming Baï Lab, the project Landing ON-AIR treats the walkie-talkie—a communication medium that transcends spatial and temporal confines—as its point of departure. They will launch fluid exercises in instruction and choreography, aiming to develop a poetic methodology for collective unconscious war drills. In Ming Baï Lab’s previous performances, walkie-talkies have frequently replaced microphones as the primary sound-emitting devices, and the act of tuning and the radio frequency have served as metaphors for the diverse survival conditions in contemporary society.

Through a series of public workshops in 2026, including the “War and Wonderland” imaginative cartography workshop, the “Walkie-Talkie Body Talk” sensory development workshop, and the “Body Marking and Chuting” choreography workshop, the project Landing ON-AIR utilizes text, human-machine collaboration, and transnational queer political exchange to help participants of varying ages comprehend contemporary memories of recreation and war, while employing choreographic instructions to activate the sensory potential of their bodies in using radio devices. This project transforms anger and fear into comedic relief by highlighting dark humor and absurdity. It attempts to counter the sensationalism of mass media, preventing the public from succumbing to excessive panic and anxiety, or from becoming desensitized to routine civic drills. Together, participants co-create a resonant time for collective speculative thinking—a time for philosophical reflection on everyday warfare. Treating radio technology as a medium that refocuses contemporary attention on the reinterpretation of history, the artists plan to temporarily construct a DIY radio broadcasting station during their residency. This will transmute each poetic drill of Landing ON-AIR into a clandestine, spectral assembly. Memories of the past, present, and future entangle and flood back through collective exploration across multiple media, creating a latent, interactive power capable of continuously forging alliances with the external world and stabilizing the inner self.

CREATORS

Ming Baï Lab

Formed by choreographer Ming-Chieh LEE and visual artist Baï LEE, Ming Baï Lab is an artist duo that focuses on diasporic conditions within social relations. Through field surveys across diverse spaces, they question the production processes of the moving image, bodily performance, and theatrical creation, as well as the social mechanisms embedded in exhibition and performance venues. Through mobile fieldwork, they explore the subtle intersections between personal regrets and historical sites. These findings are co-authored into “body ⇄ image” texts and presented in multiple forms, with the foundational intention of healing the wounds of memory. Their collaborative works, the image-choreography conceptual exhibition Hey! Where to stop along the way? (2021) and the project Summer Toaster (2022), were respectively nominated for the 20th and 21st Taishin Arts Awards. Ming Baï Lab was officially founded in 2023. Their self-curated, spatial-novel-style performative project Over the Troubled Waters experimented with the transdisciplinary possibilities of contemporary art and opened up new horizons for micro-curation in Taiwan. This work was awarded the Special Prize at the 2023 Taipei Fringe Festival. In 2024, they curated and produced The Mystery of Blackfoot Disease III ‒ A Footage of Troubled Waters, On My Way Home for the Tainan Arts Festival.

Baï LEE

Born in Tainan, Baï LEE holds an MFA from the Department of New Media Art at the Taipei National University of the Arts (TNUA). She is currently an independent visual artist and a Ph.D. candidate in the Art and Technology Division of the Ph.D. Program in Cultural Heritage and Arts Innovation at TNUA. Leveraging her interdisciplinary background that bridges mass communication and fine arts, she integrates film, television, and media production into her long-term practice. Drawing from diverse life experiences, she deconstructs ideological symbols in mass media and constructs fictional texts with historical memories gathered through field research. Her photographic works have received recognition from domestic and international photography awards. She also worked as a special correspondent in Paris during her six-year stay in France.

Ming-Chieh LEE

Ming-Chieh LEE is a transdisciplinary choreographer-cum-physical performer. She holds an MFA from the School of Dance at the Taipei National University of the Arts and is currently a Ph.D. candidate at the Institute of Applied Arts, National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University. Transitioning from street dance to contemporary performing arts, she has maintained a long-term focus on the diverse movement paths generated by the interplay of bodies, events, objects, and their surroundings. She has participated in residencies, creative showcases, and artistic exchanges at renowned institutions, such as CND Camping in France and the Critical Path Choreographic Research Center in Sydney, Australia.