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Lee Ka-sing - from The Minority Government and Opposition Parties
This GOOD Edition is for an announcement of Lee Ka-sing's newly released work - The Minority Government and Opposition Parties. As he phrased it, the work is a picture poem from his poetry labs. The piece, performs in a dada style, is a pair of juxtaposed images displayed in a duo-window. Images are randomly streamed from a large picture library of over thousands of images.
The work begins with a title of two political jargons - "Minority Government and Opposition Parties", but opens up to a wide and imaginative world. The work is of Canadian, but it's not only Canadian. In 2008, Lee Ka-sing started working on his older series - "dot Hong Kong" and "Toronto Myth", both works consist of a large volume of images. He photographs everyday and these pictures gradually form an encyclopedia of his very own image vocabularies.
An image by itself is poetic, a juxtaposition becomes political. His technique is very similar to Exquisite Corpse, a Surrealist technique that uses chance and accident in the creation of pictures. It is based on a game that juxtaposes unknown elements that are only revealed in their totality upon completion.
The Minority Government and Opposition Parties is an on-going piece, with images adding to it a few times a week. This non-linear work can be viewed online at this link:
http://doubledouble.org/2x
Lee Ka-sing's work is mainly photo-based. He also writes and curates. Lee lives in Toronto since 1997 with his wife and daughter. He has collaborated with Leung Ping-kwan (Chinese poet, writer) for the noted "FOODSCAPE" project (with poems by Leung), and currently with Gary Michael Dault (Canadian art-critic, writer) for the "TORONTO MYTH" series. Gary writes poem/text on his photographs.
