Lee Tzu Tung investigates real political systems through an artist’s lens, exploring how art can serve and be transformed within these contexts. As an undercover artist, they embed themself in Taiwan’s DPP and NPP parties, activist NGOs, and leading movements, blurring the line between political engagement and artistic practice.

Compose the Occupation is a sound performance using photo-sensitive instruments controlled by light pendulums. The work mixes government propaganda songs with revolutionary slogans from the streets, allowing the artist to manipulate how these opposing sonic forces intertwine through light and movement.

In solidarity with Hong Kong’s fight for democracy, this work projects an image from the 2014 Umbrella Revolution onto a Taipei voting venue during Taiwan’s mayoral election. It reflects the shared resistance of Hong Kong and Taiwan against the encroachment of authoritarian power from the People's Republic of China.

This work contrasts Taiwan’s everyday reality with its inherited cultural symbolism. A motorcyclist repeatedly circles the National Palace Museum without ever entering—serving as a metaphor for how Taiwanese people, while indoctrinated to see themselves as the inheritors of Chinese culture, remain at a distance, revering an imagined cultural center they cannot access or have never connected to. The action is documented and projected onto traditional Chinese rice paper, accompanied by an installation of scattered branches that casts Shan-Shui-inspired shadows across the scroll. This layering bridges national iconography with lived experience, questioning the dissonance between ideological heritage and contemporary identity.

In Dharamsala, India, where thousands of Tibetan refugees have fled in search of freedom, this project began as a documentary but evolved into a participatory video workshop. Artist Lee Tzu-Tung taught refugees to use smartphones and simple editing tools to storyboard and film their own stories—ultimately transforming the process into a mutual exchange that empowered both teacher and participants through resilient narratives of identity, freedom, and belief.