The Heart of A Hand , 2022 Single-channel 4K video, color, sound 13 minutes, 13 seconds Edition of 5 + 2 APs
The Heart of A Hand pays tribute to Goh Choo San (1948–87), a pioneering Singaporean-born choreographer who died of an AIDS-related illness at the age of thirty-nine. Despite a prolific career, Goh Choo San’s legacy remains largely absent from queer, cultural, and dance histories in the United States. In an act of radical archiving, Kang Seung Lee redresses this history by manifesting a queer lineage as an homage across different relations and histories of solidarity. The single-channel video, created in collaboration with Joshua Serafin and Nathan Mercury Kim, is a choreographed dance, loosely based on Goh’s neo- classical ballet Configurations , commissioned by American Ballet Theatre in 1981. In the work, we see Serafin, a Filipino dancer and choreographer based in Belgium who embodies an exuberant spectrum of emotions reflected in the intensity of the dance. KIRARA, a transgender composer and musician based in Seoul, takes inspiration from the original score for Goh’s Configurations , to create a revitalized soundtrack for
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