Min Kyoung Lee AAF Performance artist in residence

As part of the 2025 Asian Artist's Fund, artist Min Kyoung Lee has undertaken a four week residency at the Kit, under the Parallax: programme and with curatorial and dramaturgical support from F.O.L.A (AKL).

Min first landed in Aotearoa in 2001 on an impromptu trip. With no previous training, she studied dance at the Unitec Institute of Technology after meeting a dance student at the Vipassana Meditation center. Min sees the choreographic as states where performance can happen. How does the real-time progression of performance become the content of the experiment? How to translate the invisible inner drive for a dancer to move to the third-person audience? What is the tension between dance and dance drama? What is a body without adding a narrative?

After more than a decade of voyage across Europe and Korea, Min returned to Aotearoa in 2023 to re-root her artistic practice in the place where it first took shape. During this residency, drawing on early Buddhist ideas of suffering, she began exploring different performance materials, words, images, movements, body and postures. Over the four weeks she has initiated workshops and rehearsals with collaborators.

Please join us for a session of sharing and showing with Min on Saturday 13 December 2–3pm, in the Kit, 8 East Street.

Min Kyong Lee in collaboration with:
Micheal McCabe, performance divisor and design
Cindy Yunha Jang, performance divisor and choreographic assistant
Bridget Riggir-Cuddy, performance double and dramaturge
Jaehwan Lee, videographer

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