X-Ray, 2009
4 – 18 May 2009
Li E Chen is an interdisciplinary artist and the creative director/founder of JUMP+. Li E Chen will use the 360 hours of the residency for rehearsal and performance, to explore and challenge how complexity can arise from interplay of simple series. She will use numerical series, binary codes and ‘class signs’, all based on the concepts of “incompleteness” and “uncertainty” developed by 20th century mathematician Kurt Gödel as a starting point to create a series of performances. Li E wishes to show how this interplay creates an “atmosphere” of uncertainty that permeates in Live Art and the dynamic nature of contemporary society.
Li E Chen received a BA in Alternative Theatre Practice from the Central School of Speech and Drama in 2004 and an MA in Media Arts Philosophy and Practice from the University of Greenwich in 2007. Since 2004 Li E Chen has also worked as a new media designer for UK and touring theatre and opera productions. Her work has included projects at the RHO2, Hackney Empire, W11 Opera, The Wellcome Collection London, The Stephen Joseph Theatre, Red Shift Theatre, The Malta international Theatre Festival in Poznan, Poland and, most recently, an outdoor production at Trafalgar Square with Yellow Earth Theatre Company and the Greenwich Dockland Festival.
In addition to her design work, she has her own performance and directing projects, where she has sought to develop cutting edge work that combines theatre, live performance and new media, using the creative training she has received in her BA and MA as the basis for many of her ideas.
