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About

David Lee has produced exploratory art work in various media since the 1970s including film, text and sound and movement performances. The most recent, photography-based work has developed within projects that explore concepts of colonization, space and history through a dialogue with the physical environment. More detail on this can be found in the Approach section of the website.

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Representative Work

   Photo-based work

  • The History of Trees: Notes on Growth and Intimacy

    • Photobook with black and white images. Self-published in an edition of 50. 2021.

  • Colonization 1 2 3

    • Set of three photobooks with color images and hand-constructed slipcase. Self-published in an edition of 25. 2019.

  • Space and Material: Beach Variation​

    • Set of photographs in hand-constructed box with printed sleeve. Self-published in a limited edition. 2018.​​​

   Engagements

  • Presentation of work to students at Hochschule München | University of Applied Sciences, Munich, Germany. 2024.

  • Presentation of work to students at Nova Scotia School of Art and Design, Halifax, Canada. 1993.

  • Presentation of work in radio presentation on WREK, Atlanta, Georgia, USA. 1992.

   Performance

  • Skin Like Dust

    • Live sound and movement performance for three people performed once for an audience in an outdoor space. 1994.

  • Estuary

    • Live sound performance for found and invented sound makers with multiple performers. Performed for audiences on three separate evenings. 1992.​

  • Coalescence

    • Live sound performance for four performers with shortwave radios. Performed for audiences twice in two indoor locations. 1991.

  • Moving Toward Light

    • Movement improvisation for solo performer with pre-recorded sound emitted from tape recorders within the costume as part of Dance On The Loose, an annual choreographers showcase in Atlanta, Georgia in 1990. A second performance was filmed outdoors with a black and white Pixelvision camera in the same yea​​​​r.

  • Proximity

    • Black and white Super 8 film project for two performers with camera held at arms length while improvising movement within a small space. The film was produced and performed in 1988 and projected live as part of a set of work by the Red Clay performance group  in 1990. This piece was also presented during a visiting session with students at Nova Scotia School of Art and Design in 1993 and displayed on a monitor in a loop as part of at the New Lamps for Old art show at 378 Gallery in Atlanta in 2023.

  • Landscape

    • Color Super-8 film compiled of multiple three minute continuous segments for camera held at arms length while listening to recorded directions through headphones by solo performers in various outdoor environments. 1987.​

 

  • Recorded groupings of the performance work above were also presented in a session with students at Nova Scotia College of Art and Design in 1993 and in a broadcast on WREK, Georgia Institute of Technology’s radio station, in 1992.

 

   Writing

 

  • Intuitive Action Work

    • Presentation and essay on Intuitive Action Work 1988-1994, self-published book 1994.

  • An Accident of Location

    • Experimental fiction published in Loblolly, Volume 1, No. 3/4, 1988.

  • A Few Notes on Politics, Art and Political Art 

    • Essay published in Art Papers Vol. 8, No. 5, 1984. 

  • Alone-With: 22 Parts

    • Experimental fiction published in Chicago Review, Volume 33, No 3, 1983.

  • Segments 

    • Opening text to booklet accompanying Stan Sharshal’s solo art show at the High Museum of Art, Atlanta, Georgia 1981.

  • Trailer

    • Experimental fiction published in Chicago Review, Volume 32, No 2, 1980.

  • Reporter

    • Experimental fiction published in Chicago Review, Volume 31, No. 2, 1979.

  • Act One, Act Two

    • Text poems, published in The Bitter Oleander, Volume 1, No. 2, 1975.

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