 Skin, 2003, video, 04:11 *texts are spoken words in video
 The Thing That She Carried, 2003, video, 16:17 *texts are spoken words in video
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Sujin Lee
www.sujinlee.org
Sujin Lee is an interdisciplinary artist who has presented her work at Dixon Place, Here Art Center, Brooklyn Arts Exchange, Portland Center for the Advancement of Culture, The Soap Factory, and Movement Research at the Judson Church. She was awarded with The Sidney Kahn Summer Institute residency at The Kitchen, New York Studio Program and Emerge Program at Aljira. She lives and works in New York.
Lee currently works in a combination of text, video and performance. The experience of learning English as a second language made her interested in the physical act of speaking language, translating spoken text into written text and vice versa, and the places of un-synchronicity that result. Her work takes form as spoken narratives based on her own experience, often juxtaposed to written texts, either on stage or in video. There are often multiple narrators/voices/stories and the question of "who speaks and who is spoken for" is very important. Some of the issues that she has been working with are the desire for fluency, the voice, and language as misrepresentation, ownership of language and linguistic imperialism.
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