Time-Based Media

Engagement with queer histories and archives in Lee’s practice spans video, performance, and other forms of durational, embodied research. His adaptation of these mediums—which institutionally and art historically trouble notions of conservation, documentation, and exhibition—parallels his preoccupation with “visual signs, traces, and indices, and speaks to the possibility of intervening in orderly systems and lists.” In his performances and videos, Lee works with collaborators to creatively reconstruct historical choreography and activate embroidered garments that have been made by hand. The artist also ritually inters artworks, dedicating them to artistic predecessors lost to the AIDS crisis, and transfers meaningful objects, like relics, from one site of international queer history to another.