Please note that the projects and works listed below are a small selection of my work and by no means represent the full scope of my creative output. An authentic human being does not have time for the permanent updates of a website. Since the focus of my work is on complex multimedia projects that require teamwork, I work mainly as part of the El Patrol collective. For more information visit our website.
hotel annelie
The exhibition HOTEL ANNELIE turns towards a rare image of modern Germany the meaning of which far exceeds its geographical boundaries. Tito Lee happened to be living next to a hostel, Hotel Annelie in Munich which offered modest accommodation for homeless people, small time crooks, junkies and social outsiders. Over the period of several years he was working incessantly in this neighbourhood and, incorporating the inhabitants of the hostel, completed the multi-media art project called HOTEL ANNELIE. The Project become a large artistic archive that includes a 111 minute future film, associated sculptures, video installations, large format light boxes, photographs and pop art series, and eliminates the borders between documentation and fiction. In 2012 the film ANNELIE was released separately, and shown and honored with prizes at festivals worldwide. The complete exhibition was shown in its totality for the first time in 2015.
Lee describes his work as a Post Occidental Iconography with a focus on the downfall of the Christian West. The exhibition has a futuristic perspective where the demise of the Western World has been a part of history for a long time. The residents of HOTEL ANNELIE have become the icons of poverty reminding us of the beginning of this global upheaval.
Blessed are you who are poor, for yours is the kingdom of God. – Luke 6:20
KARPATI TOURIST
“Karpati Tourist” was an electronic free art collaboration between Tito Lee and the Turkish-German artist Bülent Kullukcu. Their work emerged from the spirit of the 90s, when people disposed of their old turntables and started listening to CDs instead. Over the years the artists gathered the antiquated turntable-beauties and linked them together in one big polyphonic machine. Leading the ongoing discussion of digital vs. analog techniques to the absurd.
Karpati Turist (later known as «Electric Lounge Orchestra”) premiered at the Einstein Art Center during the renowned MUG experimental electronic music festival. A ‹floating› metal ring, supporting either 33 or 45 turntables was later extended by 4 analog audio platforms, forming the instrumental ensemble of the multimedia installation. According to the number of turntables used, they ran at the speed of 33 rpm or 45 rpm and were each in charge of their own sound loop. By placing the needles on different materials varying from ordinary vinyl-discs to rusty saw blades or glass plates, the resonance of these substances were captured and produced unknown sounds and melodies. The musical patterns ranged from floating grooves and concrete sounds to ambient soundscapes and noise. A mechanical system synchronized the turntables and allowed the artists to create live music. The visual workstation consisted of video, super 8 – and fittingly for the Big Brother era – live cam images. All combined this formed a 5-color time and space structure as a walkable performance.
AGWE
Agwe is an interactive, multimedia exhibition exploring the evolution from slave-ships to space-ships on a metaphysical level. Navigation as central theme is perceived as civilisational process enforced by mankind’s struggle to survive as well as a symbol for the urge to travel. It is a homage to humanity’s ambivalent attraction towards the void and unknown.
In photographical series emotions, the yearning and mere beauty of navigation is addressed. These images contrast with video works and the interactive installation “control room”, which are abstractions of the unromantic development of modern shipping technologies. The installation, consisting of several data processors and up to 14 screens, serves as a multimedia platform and is a replica of an original control room, commonly applied in modern unmanned shipment and oil industry. Visitors enter a highly technologized area and are brought into an observing position of seemingly real images on the monitoring screens.
Those infected by the spirit of Agwe were the first ones to dare crossing oceans in the past and they will be the first to travel and explore outer space.
DEATH OF TECHNO
Tito Lee explores the spirit of the german subculture created by the musical genre “techno”, by resurrecting the formative era of the 90s in a multimedia art practice. In an elaborate sculptural installation a feature-length film, video loops, sound bites and photography are presented. Each element playing its role in transcending the depicted reality into the spectator’s actual experience, leading in a party as a participative performance fulfilling the transformation.
Omnipresent fluorescent green fur and scattered bags laying around like bodies are the replica of the cradle of technoculture: the German club scene. The green room is a tribute to Munichs’ cult club “Ultraschall” where several films scenes where registered.
Due to the innovative music with its rhythmic-monotonous structure and the use of drugs the location exhibited similarities with ethnic temples where dance and trance rituals were held. The green room as scenery for Technoshamanism. Watching the film in this setting, frees the audience of space and time, becoming statist of the protagonists lives, in which they take part voyeuristically. On the End, the audience is taking part in one techno-shamanic ritual.
Death of techno” reflects the time, when the commercialization of the original techno ideal has led to consumerism and has caused the scene’s loss of cultural integrity. Being kids of former hippies, the techno-generation cultivated some of the 60s motives and introduced them into the digital age. A sense of collectivism, celebrating sexual liberation and the use of psychedelic drugs to expanded one’s consciousness went along with a deep believe in the progress of a technologized society as the key to finally attain the idea of a liberated “one world”. Possibilities seemed endless, but optimism came to a sudden end with the begin of 21th century and 9/11 attacks.
disko B
Death of Techno is a musical archive of the time, including 18 different tracks from the cult label ”Disko B”.