The Things I Carry
(2015- )
Lee Su-Feh
My body is an archive of my experiences, my sensations, my history, my ancestors.
Lee Su-Feh explores these ideas through story-telling, song, movement and our electronic devices. Along the way, she creates a space that is part ceremony, part conference, part confessional.
The Things I Carry is a work that was developed during the Migrant Bodies Project, an E.U.-sponsored choreographic project aimed at opening up a civic and artistic reflection on migrations and their cultural impact for European and Canadian societies.
About the Migrant Bodies Project
Migrant Bodies was a project created through a partnership between Comune di Bassano del Grappa (Italy), La Briqueterie - Centre de développement chorégraphique du Val de Marne (France), Circuit-Est centre chorégraphique (Québec), The Dance Centre (British Columbia) and HIPP The Croatian Institute for Dance and Movement (Croatia). The project invited 16 artists (6 choreographers/dancers, 5 writers, 5 visual artists) from three European countries and two Canadian provinces to carry out two years of research on migrations and the social and cultural impacts that migrations generate in local societies, in order to produce works to be staged in established and renowned venues, or in site specific locations, and to portray new forms of identity of the migrant bodies to a wider audience. The project was supported by the EU Culture 2007-13 Programme
Concept, Choreography and Performance: Lee Su-Feh
Dramaturgy: Alessandro Sciarroni
Text: Lee Su-Feh, with excerpts from On A Plane, by Chris Bose
Sound Design: Junhong McIntosh-Lee
Song: Both Sides Now by Joni Mitchell
Thanks to: all the artists and organizers of the Migrant Bodies Project for their feedback and support, all the individuals we have met in our journey and who have contributed to this work directly and indirectly.
Photo by Thum Chia Chieh.