During the summer of 2008 Seth Lower received a strange message from someone in Taipei named Lee Ming. With no further introduction, she (or he) told him that s/he knew who he was and that s/he had met him in a dream before he was ever born. S/he described the dream, which had recurred numerous times throughout her/his life, as something like a fever dream, always giving her/him a strange feeling of sadness. In the dream, a cloaked figure saved her/his life from a band of murderers, but only at the expense of his life. As he lay dying in her/his arms, he wrote his name in blood on the palm of her/his hand. It was Seth’s name. How s/he found him after this s/he didn’t say—only that s/he saw one of Seth’s images on the Internet and immediately recognized it. That was all s/he said, and despite subsequent replies, s/he never sent anything further.
Working with members of the KdMoFA and Taipei National University of the Arts community, Lower creates a video reconstruction of Lee Ming’s dream and searches for people in Taipei named Lee Ming, creating an investigative project in the process. From May 15, the Kuandu Museum of Fine Arts will present you Seth Lower’s latest conclusion to the search project.
During the summer of 2008 Seth Lower received a strange message from someone in Taipei named Lee Ming. With no further introduction, she (or he) told him that s/he knew who he was and that s/he had met him in a dream before he was ever born. S/he described the dream, which had recurred numerous times throughout her/his life, as something like a fever dream, always giving her/him a strange feeling of sadness. In the dream, a cloaked figure saved her/his life from a band of murderers, but only at the expense of his life. As he lay dying in her/his arms, he wrote his name in blood on the palm of her/his hand. It was Seth’s name. How s/he found him after this s/he didn’t say—only that s/he saw one of Seth’s images on the Internet and immediately recognized it. That was all s/he said, and despite subsequent replies, s/he never sent anything further.
Working with members of the KdMoFA and Taipei National University of the Arts community, Lower creates a video reconstruction of Lee Ming’s dream and searches for people in Taipei named Lee Ming, creating an investigative project in the process. From May 15, the Kuandu Museum of Fine Arts will present you Seth Lower’s latest conclusion to the search project.
