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2025
QUESTION PROJECT
FIX or FLUX?
STEREOBLIND
VAL LEE
2025/05/10 - 05/10
FIX or FLUX?
The knowledge and relationships we assume to be stable often rest on unstable assumptions. As these assumptions erode and familiar orders are disrupted, how would we navigate an environment in flux?
Stereoblind
Stereoblind refers to the inability to perceive depth using both eyes. When vision alone cannot provide accurate spatial awareness, individuals must rely on other senses. In Val Lee’s live art piece, Stereoblind, the artist uses this condition as a metaphor to construct a slowly unfolding, temporal scenario that points to the distortion and breakdown of recognizable relationships in contemporary society. This work extends Val Lee’s ongoing inquiry into the individual’s experience within collective settings and examines how vast, invisible forces can be represented, as the artist continues to explore uncertainty through the creation of artistic settings.
Visitors freely enter the museum’s open, grey lobby space from various angles. Dispersed among the crowd, performers can only be identified with some effort: one stands still, holding a potted plant; another wears blind football goggles and is guided in a slow jog. Others squat, dance intensely, or engage in prolonged mutual gazes. These everyday actions are carried out with an intensity that seems to pierce through their surroundings, condensing proximity and distance into a shared reality constructed by both viewers and performers. The lines, textures, and weight of the work shift over time. Across different layers of viewing, it accommodates attention and distraction, closeness and hesitation, exposure and privacy, trust and misperception. This fluid environment builds a sensory momentum beyond observation, sustaining dynamic relationships between all elements. It conveys the shifting psychological contours of contemporary society, where the self, the other, and the collective are in constant negotiation.
Stereoblind – Production Credits
Concept｜Val Lee
Producer｜Wave Yang
Visual Design｜HOUTH
Performers｜Chu-Hua Wang, Hsiao-Tzu Tien, Guan-Yue Wang, Fly Wu, Chun-Wen Liang, Zhengya Huang, Yun-Chen Chang, Vivi Yeh, Yu-Hsin Yu, Albert Garcia, BK
Lighting Design｜Ray Tseng
Sound Design｜Hao Luo
Style｜Ying Lin
Photography｜Pitz Liu, Sean Wang
Live Recording｜Toisland Project
Co-organizers｜Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Hong Foundation
Commissioned by｜Hong Foundation
Supporting Partner｜Panasonic Taiwan
Rehearsal Collaboration｜Fist & Cake Production
Botanical Contribution｜Ura.219 X 0343 Conservatory X Object by 1218
Knitting Collaboration｜8bit.t.d
Special Thanks｜Jun-Jieh Wang, Chris Li, Tomo Setou, Garha Aomori, Ryukyu Agachi
Photo by Pitz Liu
ARTIST
VAL LEE
Val Lee graduated from the State University of New York with a major in Filmmaking and a minor in Sociology. In 2008, Lee founded Ghost Mountain Ghost Shovel and has been active in the fields of visual and performing arts. Lee's work utilizes 'temporal scenarios,' integrating expanded cinema, live art, and video in collaboration with artists, actors, dancers, musicians, amateurs, art scholars, and curators from various cultural backgrounds. Through these collaborations, Lee explores themes like national systems, systemic violence, war, and contemporary mental states, creating multi-layered, dreamlike scenes with unique viewer relationships that often provoke debate.
Lee’s video works have been exhibited at SOMA Art Berlin, the Museum of Contemporary Art in Taipei, the Vernacular Institute (Mexico), HKW (Germany), the Grand Palais (France), the Gwangju Biennale (Korea), and the Taiwan Biennial. Live performances have been staged at the Kyoto Art Center, the National Theater in Taiwan, the Taipei Arts Festival, and others. Lee has received support from the Asian Cultural Council, the Hong Foundation, the National Culture and Arts Foundation, C-LAB, and Australia’s Performance Space, and was awarded the Taishin Arts Award for Visual Arts in 2017.
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