Juyoung Lee

Juyoung thinks, writes, and dances.

Title of Project

Leaves Grow from My Body

Description of Project

The project is based on the performance that has three levels: first, the textual level, where I write and read the reimagined memories; second, the olfactory level, by which I create and share the smells of these memories; and third, the visual level in the video that has recorded the process of the restoration of the smells. Through reconstructing and sharing a set of new memories, both textual and olfactory, I recognize vegetal metamorphosis as a mode of living, of communal remembering, and of (organic) community building. I understand this metamorphosis to be transpiring at the moment when plant-ization of animal organs coincides with plants’ animalistic devouring—the moment where festering bodies, abandoned and marginalized in history, willingly embrace an absorption into a vegetal network of memories.

Areas of Academic Interest

Dance studies, Trauma and memory, Body, History, Queer and Feminist Theory