The Harvard Seers Project is the first part of a busy summer that will have Lee at two of contemporary art’s most prominent venues. He will be Taiwan’s representative at the Venice Biennale—one of the world’s major art exhibitions—where he will show “The Sleeping Project,” which fosters intimacy between the artist and his viewer by having both sleep in the same room. In September, as part of the Museum of Modern Art’s Projects series, he will exhibit “The Tourist Project.”

Although the emphasis is on the participants in “The Harvard Seers Project,” like his other works it takes place in a carefully planned architectural space.

“I have a fabricator and also have an architect who works with me,” Lee says. “I am usually very open to what they have in terms of suggestions; it is a very good example of a collaborative team. The physical project is of three people’s talents and vision.”

Lee says he hopes “seekers” will feel comfortable in the space he creates in Memorial Hall and will take seriously their interaction with the “seers.” All of the seers, who will utilize different methods—ranging from intuition to the I Ching—to help visitors reflect on various concerns, have volunteered to assist in the project. All are from the Harvard community, which Lee sees as essential to the work’s emphasis on pushing the boundaries within which we search for understanding.

—The Harvard Seers Project will be on display in the Memorial Hall transept from April 25 to May 4.