Born Penang, Malaysia
Goh Lee Kwang (family name Goh) is internationally recognized sound & new media artist from Malaysia. He has created sound installations, sonic-visual interactive installations, single channel video, multi-channels video, electro-acoustic improvised music performance, tape music, composition for radio broadcast and soundtrack for theater / dance / independent movie. Goh's works focus on the various possibility of both realistic & abstract, crossing the boundaries of digital & analog, electronic & acoustic, go beyond language, allowing audiences to experience the work directly, and in their own personal way. Most of his installation also operating interactively with the audience/ viewer.
His first one-person exhibition 'Sound, Video, Visual, Media & Installation' shown in 2 venues: National Art Gallery, Kuala Lumpur & R.A.P. (Rumah Air Panas) in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia 2005; his second one-person exhibition 'Good Vibrations' shown in 3 venues, REKA Art Space, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia 2007; Fluctuating Images, Stuttgart & Künstlerhäuser Worpswede, Worpswede, Germany 2008. In 2009 his third one person exhibition 'Wiring' including a 30mins video, a live performance, 2 short piece video (looped), some drawing & a sound piece, were taken place at Findars Space & KLPac (Kuala Lumpur Performing Arts Center), both in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Goh also gave concerts in cities such as Manila, Singapore, Kuala Lumpur, New Delhi in Asia; in cities such as Dublin, London, Amsterdam, Paris, Berlin, Vienna, Stockholm, Ljubljana, Zürich & Budapest. He was 4 times touring Europe (2004, 2007, 2008 & 2010), plus many other concerts during his stay for a longer period in Europe.
Goh's works has been participated in festivals such as Jazz en Nord, Lille, France 2004; Klangraum Festival, Kunstraum Stuttgart, Germany 2004; Film Winter, Media Im Raum, Württembergischen Kunstverein, Stuttgart, Germany 2005; Ver Uit De Maat, Rotterdam, The Netherlands 2005; D.I.Y. stDSPS, Rotterdam, The Netherlands 2005; Street Roar, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia; New West Electronic Arts & Music Festival, Berlin, Germany 2007; Festival de Musiques Innovatrices, Saint-Etienne, France 2007; Not That Balai, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia 2007; Let Arts Move You (Lamu), Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia 2007; Choppa Festival, Singapore 2008; Ton-Raum-Licht, Künstlertage Hermannshof, Germany 2008; Simultan Festival, Timisoara, Romania 2008; 2nd Butoh Festival, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia 2009; Melaka Art & Performance Festival, Melaka, Malaysia 2009; Switch ON mini Fest, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia 2009; Choppa Festival, Singapore 2010; 3rd Butoh Festival, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia 2010; Pudu Community Arts Project, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia 2010; 2nd Switch ON mini Fest, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia 2010.
Goh is the recipient of numerous awards & honors, including the Akademie Schloss Solitude Fellowship, Stuttgart, Germany in 2004 -2005, Klangraum Fellowship, Krems, Austria in 2006 & Künstlerhäuser Worpswede Fellowship 2008. Other short term Artist-In-Residency programs including KHOJ, New Delhi, India 2006; STEIM, Amsterdam, The Netherlands 2007; WORM, Rotterdam, The Netherlands 2007 & Green Papaya, Manila, Philipines 2007-2008.
Goh is currently the founder/ project manager of Herbal Project, organizing various events on experimental & electronic arts in the capital of his home country Malaysia, Kuala Lumpur, including the monthly event "Switch ON" & many other independent concerts. Goh is also the founder of the experimental music label Herbal International & one of the founders of Experimental Artists Co-op Malaysia (EMACM). Herbal International released cd by Eric Cordier, Eric La Casa, Jean-Luc Guionnet, Cédric Peyronnet, Beequeen, Roel Meelkop, Sabine Ercklentz, Andrea Neumann, Jason Kahn, Zbigniew Karkowski & others. EMACM is a collaborative project dedicated to the facilitation, publication and exposure of creative & experimental works from the region.
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