Texts | Aram Lee

Gore Museology (March 2026)

Gore Museology confronts the gore that forms the foundation of history and museum profitability.

Anthology 2020-2025 (Korean Translation) (December 2025)

(한국어 번역본) 반투명한 초신체성, 가짜 송곳니들이 말할 때, 동시적 시네마 선언문, 그녀는 누구이며, 얼마나 오랫동안 꿈꿔왔을까?, 만질 수 없는 것들, 삼십오만 번의 상실…

'Holding Poison' a roundtable on toxicity in ethnographie museum collections (September 2025)

How can we account for these living entities, when there’s a continuity of toxic forces and insensible violence affecting the life of things and their culture in the museum?

350,000Leaks (July 2024)

Published on JaJaJaNeeNeeNee radio.

Cultivating Museum Ecologies Otherwise (April 2024)

It was important to scale them up and make them perceptible, sensual to us.

Translucent Trans-Corporeality
A conversation between Aram Lee and Lotte Arndt on Lee’s experimental film X-Hale. (April 2024)

The “X” can be read as a reference to what is unknown, in flow, rendered visible but not fully graspable…

After Objects (September 2023)

RV-581-36: Oh, I imagine that I have a viscoelastic identity, so I can drip like sticky, transparent syrup on the ground of the museum.

When False Canines Speak (December 2022)

Tiny holes can appear in dominant plots, holes where unfinished echoes from unknown voices live.

Synchronic Cinema Manifesto (September 2022)

Maps are synchronic, a solid state of affairs dividing space into boundaries and stable identities. Adding time, boundaries and identities shift.

Who Is She, and How Long Has She Dreamed For? (May 2022)

But it’s not about my memory, it’s about her memories. Can you distinguish between them?

The Untouchables (May 2020)

Objects are not able to attain shadows, as if they don’t exist. It’s as if we’re looking at a perfectly sealed glass box on a pedestal that is not leaking at all.

From Pluto to Pyongyang and Back (March 2019)

A reality that proved to be a mix of fact and fiction, one lost in images and the politics of representation.