Laughter Box (2017-now)

Laughter box is an interactive installation designed to be placed in museums, galleries and other civic spaces. A mini PC and a speaker is housed in a stainless steel cube, polished to mirror the external space and the viewers. Extracted from the its context in real life, various laughters were recorded then processed in computer programming. The device is designed to recognise prolonged moments of silence as a signal of boredom. It reacts to it by injecting random laughters from the database. At the same time, it somehow also becomes absurd and increasingly disturbing.

Using “laugh” as a metaphoric symbol of entertainment, Lee wants to examine the relationships between loneliness, boredom and the obsession of being constantly entertained in contemporary society.