Biography
Miri Lee is a choreographer and imprographer renowned for her extensive collaborations across various
artistic disciplines, including visual arts, music, science art, theater, film, and poetry.
Her work
emphasizes on the realization of ephemeral images through interactions with language, light, sound, and
objects, seeks to visualize abstract perceptual cognition as geometric patterns.
As the director of Magpie Stichting, she leads and broadens her exploration through 'Collectief
Imprography', an international platform for collaborative projects among professional improvisation artists.
Recently, Lee collaborated with filmmaker Emilia Tapprest to co-directed the film “IneffableShape.”
This work premiered as part of an event that combined the film screening with an improvisational
performances at Tempel Amsterdam, and officially selected this film ‘New Dutch’ section at Cinedans
Festival,2025
Since 2011, Lee has been closely collaborating with visual artist Jennifer Tee on performance creations for
Tee’s exhibitions, including “Still Shifting, Mother Field,” “Let it Come Down” series, “Star Crossed,”
“Concrete Interior,” “Rugs and Bones,” and “Women’s Mind.” These works have been performed at esteemed venues such as Kunstinstituut Melly in the Netherlands, Secession in Austria, Manifesta 11 Contemporary Art Biennale in Switzerland, ISCP Residency in the United States, and the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam.
Beginning in 2020, she has been collaborating with Boi Akih, to create choreography for “Stranger,” set to premiere in 2025.
Between 2014 and 2016, she worked with theater director Julian Hetzel, performing in pieces such as “Still” and “Sculpting Fear.” These
productions premiered at the Spring Performing Arts Festival and subsequently toured various European festivals and Frascati Theater in 2024.
Lee is a member of the EU Metabody, a collective of science and media artists. Her collaborations
include projects with Steim (Amsterdam) on the E-textile project in 2013, Dablab (UK) on “Metatopia” Metabody in 2015, and with artists Chris Salter and Tez Maurizio on “Dissense,” presented at the Todays
Art Festival in the Netherlands.
In 2021, she presented the writing and film “Come Down City,” created by Jongkag Park, as part of the Nieuw Babylon project in DIG.
Notable collaborations with improvisation artists include Katie Duck, Julyen Hamilton, and Jack Gallagher. She has also worked with musicians and composers such as Oene van Geel, Kate Moore, Michael Moore, Maya Fridman, Kapok, Doek Collective, Sonic Perspectives and White Noise Orchestra,
among others.
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