Andrew Yong Hoon Lee

Carpenter Center for Visual Arts Harvard University Thursday, November 20, 2025 Theater, Lower Level 6:00–7:30 pm, Film Program 7:30–8:00 pm, Q&A Performative Screening: The sanguineous surge in the belly of the sky. A performative screening by Thuy-Han Nguyen-Chi & Andrew Yong Hoon Lee with contributions by Jade Barget and Fabian Saul. Exploring the intersection of cinema, text, and sound through an assemblage of found footage, the artists map out our entanglements with elemental media, such as the skies and their celestial bodies––the carriers of information since time immemorial. Gazing skywards and subterraneously, we will be thinking of ways of seeing and being when tangled in weather and planetary motions. We will pay particular attention to vision caught in clouds, fog, or mist—compromised ways of seeing, asking for uncertain ways of sensing. This performative screening is the first of three chapters which will continue at the Museum of Art and History in Geneva and the Migros Museum in Zürich. Join us for a Film Program guest curated by Cinematic Involutions exhibition artist Tulapop Saenjaroen with performative screening by Thuy-Han Nguyen-Chi and Andrew Yong Hoon Lee. Following their screenings, the artists will be in conversation with Filmmaker and AFVS PhD Candidate, Kendra McLaughlin.

John Zorn presents: 2022 Pulitzer Prize winner and 2023 MacArthur Fellow Raven Chacon / 2022 MacArthur Fellowship Genius Grant winner Sky Hopinka / Soon to be father of two Andrew Yong Hoon Lee performing together as a trio. RAVEN CHACON THE STONE RESIDENCIES NYC NOV 6 | 8:30PM Parsons | New School The Glass Box Theatre 55 West 13th street New York, NY Video by Alexander Shoukas

+ I came across the work of Theresa Hak Kyung Cha at a time when I felt like I needed some proof in the world that there was another way to be an artist outside of what was presented to me. A way of working with the aesthetics of silence, the poetics of distance and cultural displacement and its creative potentials, the presencing of absence as form, the permutations of working across multiple media simultaneously, the refusal of transparency. + Language falls short of fully articulating what it means to make a work in dialogue with Theresa Hak Kyung Cha whose spirit has been a guiding light. And in the same breath, there is not enough words to express the true honour of collaborating with Thuy-Han Nguyen-Chi whose intellectual generosity and openness of spirit have forever left an imprint on my path. + Normally, as an artist, the materials one works with do not arrive in a form; fully charged, with the expressiveness of their intent. Our nine contributors are titans in their respective fields and I am forever in gratitude for their unwavering trust in us and allowing us to work with and alongside their already expansive thinking and feeling contributions of texts, poetry, sounds, songs and utterances. + The work takes its formal structure from a conversation that Thuy-Han Nguyen-Chi had with a former prisoner of conscience who would communicate with other inmates through the subterranean plumbing system. This encounter demonstrated that speaking one’s truth was a vital act - especially during a climate of fear where what can be said and not be said are determined by the state. + “The light comes in the name of the voice” is a 10 channel sound installation that was a collaborative work by myself and Thuy-Han Nguyen-Chi, designed by Georges Pakalidis and curated by Christina Lehnert as part of the exhibition: “No other cure none other than words in talking” Staatliche Kunsthalle Baden-Baden Theresa Hak Kyung Cha Evelyn Taocheng Wang Thuy-Han Nguyen-Chi Andrew Yong Hoon Lee w/ contributions by Franziska Aigner Audrey Chen Lotus L. Kang Hanne Lippard Tanasgol Sabbagh Fabian Saul Hyunhye Seo Senthuran Varatharajah Alex Zhang Hungtai

MoMA PS1 Greater New York 2026 Original Score for “I’m Staying Hopeful and Strong” (For Bilal and Salah), 2026 by Kenneth Tam I’m honored to have worked on a project that reflects our elders’ lived experiences—their desires, hopes, and dreams—as offerings to future generations. Everything I do, in some way, is only made possible because of the sacrifices of my mother and father. Drivers: Bilal Elcharfa, Salaheldin Elcharfa Director of photography: Christian Carroll Lighting: Vadim Aynbinder Sound: Sam Beneitone Dance instruction: G O I ‑ NYC Production assistant: Kay Yiching Hung Composer: Andrew Yong Hoon Lee Colorist: Suite Bread Courtesy the artist and Commonwealth and Council, Los Angeles Thank you Kenneth for being open to arriving at a very different place from where we started. Please read up on this work in the most recent issues of The NY Times and The New Yorker.

There Are No Words will have its South Korea premier at The 27th JEONJU International Film Festival this weekend. We spent the greater part of 2025 working on the score for this experimental documentary and essay film and I was very lucky to collaborate so closely with Min Sook, Yong and The National Film Board of Canada. directed by. Min Sook Lee music by. Andrew Yong Hoon Lee edited by. Eui Yong Zong cinematography by. Iris Ng There Are No Words premiered at the 2025 Toronto International Film Festival where it received an honourable mention for the Best Canadian Film award. The film will also have its North American West Coast premiere at The DOXA Documentary Film Festival in May.

PROPERTY IS THEFT SAT. APR. 25 2026 6PM AUDREY CHEN C. SPENCER YEH ALEX ZHANG HUNGTAI ANDREW YONG HOON LEE GRACE VILLAMIL CHE CHEN 411 South 5th Ave St, Los Sures, Williamsburg Brooklyn, NY 11211

This spring TANW is on the move. #jeonju #fullframefest #doxafestival Working through post-memory, diaspora and the intimate residues of state violence.

Bergen Kunsthall | Norway 02.12.2026 Our moving image + sound piece ‘Quickly open your hand to free the light prisoner’ (2025) will be screening this Thursday in Bergen, Norway as part of curated programming by Bergen Kunsthall’s Jade Meili Barget and Northing (Centre for East Asian Art and Culture in Bergen Norway). ‘Quickly open your hand to free the light prisoner’ (2025) by Thuy-Han Nguyen-Chi, Andrew Yong Hoon Lee and Dalena Tran. ‘Quickly open your hand to free the light prisoner’ (2025) was originally presented at The 13th edition of Göteborg International Biennial for Contemporary Art. Tickets for the screening available here: https://www.kunsthall.no/en/events/3255-2026-02-12/#

𝙰 𝙷𝙰𝙽𝙳 𝚃𝙷𝙰𝚃 𝙸𝚂 𝙰𝙻𝙻 𝙾𝚄𝚁 𝙷𝙰𝙽𝙳𝚂 𝙲𝙾𝙼𝙱𝙸𝙽𝙴𝙳 – the 13th edition of the Göteborg International Biennial for Contemporary Art closed this weekend. On this occasion, we would like to say THANK YOU Christina, for your vision and trust in us; for creating the space and time for ideas to be nourished and materialised. Dalena, for your generous and tender presence; for the depth of your thinking, sharing, and listening. Andrew, for your kindness and boundlessness in thought, speech, and action. Son, for your unique sense of humour, turning every shooting into an adventure filled with laughter. George, for your immense openness, passion, and dedication to this and all our project(s). We would also like to express our deep gratitude to the whole crew who helped us realise 𝚃𝙷𝙴𝚁𝙴’𝚂 𝙴𝙽𝙾𝚄𝙶𝙷 𝙻𝙸𝙶𝙷𝚃 𝚃𝙾 𝙳𝚁𝙾𝚆𝙽 𝙸𝙽 𝙱𝚄𝚃 𝙽𝙴𝚅𝙴𝚁 𝙴𝙽𝙾𝚄𝙶𝙷 𝚃𝙾 𝙴𝙽𝚃𝙴𝚁 𝚃𝙷𝙴 𝙱𝙾𝙽𝙴𝚂 (𝟸𝟶𝟸𝟻) a film and sound installation by Thuy-Han Nguyen-Chi, Andrew Yong Hoon Lee, Dalena Tran CURATION Christina Lehnert FILM Producers: Son Doan, Thuy-Han Nguyen-Chi, Dalena Tran Original Footage (digital and analog) Director: Thuy-Han Nguyen-Chi Assistant director: Johannes Lehnen Cinematographer: Son Doan Assistant camera: Bertrand Gatot Found Footage Directors: Thuy-Han Nguyen-Chi and Dalena Tran Animation Director: Dalena Tran 3D sculptor: Kat Sung Post-production Editor: Tamer Hassan Film scanning: Yves Dujardin Colourist: Loup Brenta SOUND Original score: Andrew Yong Hoon Lee Sound design: Andrew Yong Hoon Lee Sound installation: Andrew Yong Hoon Lee Mixing and mastering: Andrew Yong Hoon Lee SCULPTURAL INSTALLATION Concept: Thuy-Han Nguyen-Chi, George Vlasis Pakalidis Exhibition architect and supervisor: George Vlasis Pakalidis Exhibition producer: Mathijs van Sark Special thanks to Ioana Leca, Tyra Wihl, Clara Herrmann, Stephen Boddington, and the monk parakeets in Brussels. ________________________ Excerpt from 𝚀𝚞𝚒𝚌𝚔𝚕𝚢 𝚘𝚙𝚎𝚗 𝚢𝚘𝚞𝚛 𝚑𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝚝𝚘 𝚏𝚛𝚎𝚎 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝚕𝚒𝚐𝚑𝚝 𝚙𝚛𝚒𝚜𝚘𝚗𝚎𝚛 (𝟸𝟶𝟸𝟻) © 2025 Thuy-Han Nguyen-Chi, Andrew Yong Hoon Lee, and Dalena Tran

We present The Syncretic Agora of The Song or I Became A Portal Before I Burst Apart by Andrew Yong Hoon Lee. Online on our section SCREEN until December 11. In 2025, SCREEN is curated by Alejandro Alonso Díaz @alexaldiaz @holyhum

I’m so happy to close this year with three performative screenings in collaboration with these celestial beings: Jade, Fabian, and Andrew. 🕳️ Friends in Cambridge, Geneva, and Zürich, please feel warmly invited to: 𝚃𝙷𝙴 𝚂𝙰𝙽𝙶𝚄𝙸𝙽𝙴𝙾𝚄𝚂 𝚂𝚄𝚁𝙶𝙴 𝙸𝙽 𝚃𝙷𝙴 𝙱𝙴𝙻𝙻𝚈 𝙾𝙵 𝚃𝙷𝙴 𝚂𝙺𝚈 20 November, 6 pm Carpenter Center for Visual Arts at Harvard University, Cambridge @carpenter_center_harvard 27 November, 7 pm Museum of Art and History, Geneva @mahgeneve 29 November, 4 pm Migros Museum of Contemporary Art, Zürich @migrosmuseum Creating entanglements between technologies of self, cinema, and warfare through a cinematic–literary–sonic assemblage, 𝚃𝚑𝚎 𝚜𝚊𝚗𝚐𝚞𝚒𝚗𝚎𝚘𝚞𝚜 𝚜𝚞𝚛𝚐𝚎 𝚒𝚗 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝚋𝚎𝚕𝚕𝚢 𝚘𝚏 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝚜𝚔𝚢 invites the audience to consider the human and inhuman by traversing the screen, the sky, the soil, and under the skin. Investigating the poetics and politics of visibility and invisibility across three movements, the performative screenings interweave the real and surreal within the cinematic space (Cambridge), the armory space (Geneva), and the oneiric space (Zürich). 🕳️ Special thanks to Jade, Tasnim, and Toby for supporting our artistic vision. Tamer for editing this found footage film with me. George for advising us on the set design. Ghazaal for designing this beautiful poster. Boihugo for styling us. Teddy for helping us unite the cinema ants. Creative direction: Studio Ghazaal Vojdani @studio.ghazaalvojdani

I’d like to invite you to the new project I’m very excited about. — Thuy-Han Nguyen-Chi, Fabian Saul, Andrew Yong Hoon Lee, with Jade Meili Barget  “The sanguineous surge in the belly of the sky” November 27, 2025 19:00 – 20:00  Musée d’Art et d’Histoire, Genève — Questions concerning the relations between cinema, weapon systems and mourning guide this performative screening by artists Thuy-Han Nguyen-Chi, Fabian Saul and Andrew Yong Hoon Lee, accompanied by curator Jade Meili Barget. Taking place in the museum’s Armour Room home to the armor and weapons collection, the project unfolds as a landscape of text, sound, and moving image; an exploratory terrain through which affinities between vision and vulnerability are examined and unsettled. Credit: Image + sound + text: Thuy-Han Nguyen-Chi @hannguyenchi , Fabian Saul @fabian__saul Andrew Yong Hoon Lee @holyhum and Jade Meili Barget @greenjade___ Styling: boihugo @boihugo Cinematic assemblage: Tamer Hany Hassan @tamerhanyhassan and Thuy-Han Nguyen-Chi This event is part of a three-part cycle also taking place at the Harvard Film Archive and the Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst, in partnership with Zürich liest 2025. Images: Armet Savoyard (1600-20) from the collection, Harun Farocki Eye/Machine (2001-3), Jonathan Glazer Under the Skin (2013), Thuy-Han Nguyen-Chi, Dalena Tran and Andrew Yong Hoon Lee, Quickly open your hands (2025). By the way, I do not own the copyright to these films. This is for non-profit research and educational purposes.