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Courtesy Taipei Fine Arts Museum. Whether an intimate dinner, a private concert, or an encounter with objects from the past, Lee Mingwei stages participatory events that take people out of the everyday through unique and contemplative experiences. Beginning in the late s, these encounters were often created by the artist himself. In recent years, Lee has increasingly incorporated performers as collaborators and actors.

From these early studies, Lee learned about the important interrelations between people and how the ordinary can be transformed through acts of compassion.

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His artistic career became an amalgamation of Buddhist philosophy and late 20th-century socially engaged art where his participatory installations have gained international renown. Ahead of these major projects in , here is a look at eight influential artworks by Lee Mingwei. Courtesy the artist. One fateful day in , Lee Mingwei sat at a cafe and started to fold nine US ten-dollar bills into small, zigzagging origami.

He garnered attention from passersby and offered the finished pieces to them in exchange for their phone numbers, to receive updates on the sculptures every six months. As half a year went by, Lee took photographs that documented what had become of the mini sculptures.