Sonic Blossom by LEE Mingwei, September 6 - October 2, 2023
Scope and Contents
Materials include master checklists; exhibition design materials; installation images; and publications pertainting to exhibitions organized and hosted by Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art in 2023.
Dates
- September 6 - October 2, 2023
Conditions Governing Use
Images in this collection are either protected by copyright or are the property of CBMAA .
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Exhibition Summary
Sonic Blossom involves local singers in a designed costume approaching a visitor within the museum galleries to offer a gift of a song—the singer’s choice of one of five Franz Schubert’s Lieder (Songs), accompanied by a piano recording. Begun in 2013, this ongoing participatory performance installation with chair, music stand, costume and spontaneous song was developed by LEE Mingwei while taking care of his mother when she was recuperating from surgery. Inspired by the fact they both found solace in listening to Schubert’s Lieder, the project takes the form of “gift-giving” of the Lied to invite a moment of catharsis, joy, and connection.
Curated for Crystal Bridges by Xuxa Rodriguez, assistant curator, contemporary art, Sonic Blossom has toured in Seoul, Tokyo, Beijing, Boston, Taipei, New York, Sydney, Auckland, Frankfurt, Singapore, Washington DC, Paris, Jakarta, Cleveland, Berlin, Metz, Munich, and Helsinki and was selected as “The Best Classical Music of 2015” and “The Best in Art of 2015” in The New York Times for its presentation at The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
For more information about LEE Mingwei, visit www.leemingwei.com.
Extent
From the Class: In progress Linear Feet
Language of Materials
From the Collection: English
Access Note
Installation images and master checklist are currently unavailable for this series.
Repository Details
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