Lee Kyung-sung

Lee Kyung-sung (이경성) makes theatre that treats memory as a live structure instead of a museum object. As the founder of Creative VaQi, he has spent years building work around testimony, repetition, listening, and the politics of who gets to narrate trauma in public. That is why his page matters differently from a standard festival-profile entry.

Doosan Art Center's artist profile frames him not just as a director, but as a long-term builder inside Korean contemporary performance, with milestones including the Doosan Yonkang Arts Award, the 2017 Young Artist Award from the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism, and international invitations spanning Hong Kong, Tokyo, and Berlin. The route from Before After and Love Story to 2026's Island Story shows a maker who keeps returning to testimony as form, not ornament.

At Festival d'Avignon, Island Story turns toward the 1948 Jeju massacres through the voices of victims' and survivors' children. That gives Lee a distinct place in the Korean program. He is there not to export spectacle, but to insist that erased history and the labor of listening stay central to how performance travels.