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...ever want to be art? Not just to make or see it, but to really be it? If you’re a seeker or a seer, Lee Mingwei needs you to realize that dream...
...Mingwei is an internationally recognized public artist, having exhibited solo from N.Y.C.’s Whitney to Tokyo’s M.C.A. Then why does he need your help? In collaboration with the Office for the Arts, Mingwei, this year’s Cogan Visiting Artist, is planning an installation for Harvard Yard called the “Harvard Seers Project.” To explore our curiosity about the future, Mingwei will assemble the psychics, foreseers and clairvoyants in the Harvard community and unite them with those who need their guidance...
Where did Mingwei acquire his fondness for foresight? In an interview with The Crimson last Monday, his boyish eagerness showed as he explained the origins of the project...
...what of the design itself? The plan is to find the oldest tree near the center of the campus; Mingwei and his administrative allies in the Office for the Arts are already eyeing the grove near the chapel in the Yard. He wants to “design cloth that sort of coils out, like this”—he draws a widening spiral in the air with a finger—“like an eddy...
Each night, a different seer with a given specialty (such as tarot cards or crystal balls) will meet with about 10 to 15 seekers, one-on-one and one-by-one, by the light of a lantern. The others, meanwhile, will wait and talk in 10 Mingwei-designed chairs lined up nearby...