Thursday, 29 November, 7 pm at fffriedrich

Performance Ecstasy (1933) Soundtrack, Screening & live Sound Performance by Yutie Lee

and Public Possession Wednesday, 28 November, 6:30 pm at fffriedrich

Where the exhibition series sees frameworks for communication redefined in its first three instalments, artist Yutie Lee (b. 1988 in Taipei) deals with pre-existing cultural material from European and east Asian history. She draws on sources including ancient writings, canonical literature and pop culture. Her synthesis of historical and fictional happenings taken from this material composes alternative edifices that repudiate dominant narratives and the imposed impression of the unity of culture. By transferring coded characters into a new formal language, Lee addresses mechanisms of communication and the semantic shifts that result from such translation. In 2015, she finished studying at Akademie der Bildenden Künste, Munich as a master student under Olaf Nicolai. Until september 2018, Kunstverein Göttingen showed her first solo exhibition Ekstase 123. She recently presented her artist book Ekstase 123 at Müller’sches Volksbad in Munich. Yutie Lee lives and works in Munich and Taipei.

In the run-up to the opening, Yutie Lee and the Munich record label Public Possession will perform a sound performance: a live soundtrack of the Czechoslovak-Austrian silent film Ecstasy (1933) with Hedy Lamarr as protagonist of the drama. When the film was first shown in 1933, one scene in particular caused a stir and led to censorship: For the first time a female orgasm was shown on the cinema screen. Yutie Lee already dealt with the actress and scientist Hedy Lamarr, who developed the precursor technology of today's Bluetooth and WLAN in the service of the US Navy during the Second World War, in the context of her first institutional solo exhibition Ekstase 123 this year at the Göttinger Kunstverein.

More info: https://www.yutielee.com/category/works/ https://www.publicpossession.com