Status
Available
Call number
Collection
Publication
Hatje Cantz Publishers (2001), 112 pages
Description
Nikki S. Lee: Projects, is part street photography, part performance art. In a series of extraordinary transformations, this young, Korean-born conceptual artist unfolds a multiplicity of lives and identities documented through the lens of her point-and-shoot camera as she becomes a young punk in the East Village, a Connecticut-based exotic dancer, or a senior citizen picking through thrift stores in Murray Hill.
Language
Original language
English
Physical description
111 p.
ISBN
3775710914 / 9783775710916
Call number
MON.LEN.01
Library's review
Lee is perhaphs best known for Projects series (1997–2001), in which she practiced and performed the codes and visual signs of specific American sub-cultures, including yuppies, swing dancers, drag queens, hip hop fans, and senior citizens. A point-and-shoot camera, wielded by a member of the
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selected group or a passerby, recorded her transformation and interactions. Lee believes that individual identity is fluid and that her Projects were extensions of herself.' Show Less
Pages
111