Artist in Residents Sreening Night @ Stiftung Starke

Since October 2007, UK based Taiwanese Artist Feng-Ru Lee has carried a video camera with her whilst walking around various cities in the UK, constantly looking towards the sky and spotting the incidental relationships that are formed between elements of architecture, juxtaposed against the skyline and air traffic. Partly developed from Lee’s 2006 solo exhibition at Periscope Artists Project Space in Birmingham, UK, Lee views these urban landscapes as a massive transformer, often adding small installations and interventions in and around the city.

Through this process Lee has been developing her work through the use of moving image as a medium with which to further her adventure in the search for the pheneomonoms that bring a city’s architecture to life. In search of the compositions that are created through the relationship from person to building to sky, she connects herself with the city’s urban skyline, adding an element of human perspective to the vision of the city. Lee is aware that her sometimes strange and unusual behaviour draws people’s attention to her presence, and in doing so allows people to see the city from a new and curious aspect.

Feng-Ru Lee’s residency with Stiftung Starke Foundation has been divided into 3 stages. The first stage took place in Birmingham, UK, the interim stage and residency takes place in Berlin. During Lee’s residency in Berlin, she has found herself both encouraged and overwhelmed by the architecture of the city. With this overload of stimulus she has made a return to performance based video work as a way to explore the issues with which she is concerned.

So far Lee’s journey has been described as 'a journey into the space', a venture into the unknown, searching for things which may both surprise and amaze. To this end Lee has been working on a video to document this journey, culminating in sending her alter ego of a sheep, a recurring figure in her work, to the moon. Lee's double figure as a sheep reflects Humanities current condition of being able to clone millions of pure human as products. This ongoing project is due to be completed upon her return to the UK, which will serve as the final stage of this residency.

For this special work in progress screening, Lee will be presenting two bodies of work. One is a series of moving images that she has been documenting over the last four months.  The other is a collection of footage from her new scripted performance based video work.