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...Arts First weekend also brought to a close the Harvard Seers Project, a performance art installation designed by Lee Mingwei, the OFA’s visiting artist this year. Students and community members lined up early on each of 10 nights for brief sessions with that night’s psychic. Every night, the wait list was full by 5:15 p.m. and many of the 30-odd visitors turned away came back night after night...
...Mingwei, the Office for the Arts Marshall S. Kogan visiting artist this year, gave a slide lecture as a preview to “The Harvard Seers Project,” his public art installation that will open this Friday in Memorial Hall...
...MINGWEI. The Office for the Arts Marshall Cogan Visiting Artist this year, Lee Mingwei will give a slide lecture before the launch of “The Harvard Seers Project,” set to take place in the transept of Memorial Hall over Arts First weekend. He will also discuss his other work, which seeks to link Western conceptual art with Eastern philosophy as he has dealt with issues as diverse as human interactions and male pregnancy. The Taiwanese representative at this summer’s Venice Biennale and the subject of an upcoming Museum of Modern Art artist?...
...Mingwei is the first to admit that “Western academics” might be skeptical of his project. But for him, it’s the very invisibility of seers in the academic world that justifies the project to begin with. While pursuing his MFA at Yale, Mingwei was surprised to meet two professors—one of math, the other of statistics—who were also excellent tarot card readers. “They would never come out and say it,” he says, “because there’s something against...
...Mingwei, the physical design of his projects always remains secondary to the art of social interaction. From his early years training under Ch’an Buddhist monks in Taiwan, he learned from his teachers to “leave behind no residue or trace.” As an international installation artist, Mingwei is effectively air-dropped into communities and must rely upon the people he meets once there to mold and inspire his site-specific work. In this case, that community is Harvard: its students, faculty, administrators, classes, Houses, Masters and many guests and visitors...