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.
Representative Work
Photo-based work
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The History of Trees: Notes on Growth and Intimacy
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Photobook with black and white images. Self-published in an edition of 50. 2021.
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Colonization 1 2 3
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Set of three photobooks with color images and hand-constructed slipcase. Self-published in an edition of 25. 2019.
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Space and Material: Beach Variation
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Set of photographs in hand-constructed box with printed sleeve. Self-published in a limited edition. 2018.
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Engagements
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Presentation of work to students at Hochschule München | University of Applied Sciences, Munich, Germany. 2024.
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Presentation of work to students at Nova Scotia School of Art and Design, Halifax, Canada. 1993.
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Presentation of work in radio presentation on WREK, Atlanta, Georgia, USA. 1992.
Performance
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Skin Like Dust
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Live sound and movement performance for three people performed once for an audience in an outdoor space. 1994.
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Estuary
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Live sound performance for found and invented sound makers with multiple performers. Performed for audiences on three separate evenings. 1992.
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Coalescence
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Live sound performance for four performers with shortwave radios. Performed for audiences twice in two indoor locations. 1991.
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Moving Toward Light
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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 year.
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Proximity
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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.
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Landscape
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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.
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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
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Intuitive Action Work
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Presentation and essay on Intuitive Action Work 1988-1994, self-published book 1994.
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An Accident of Location
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Experimental fiction published in Loblolly, Volume 1, No. 3/4, 1988.
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A Few Notes on Politics, Art and Political Art
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Essay published in Art Papers Vol. 8, No. 5, 1984.
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Alone-With: 22 Parts
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Experimental fiction published in Chicago Review, Volume 33, No 3, 1983.
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Segments
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Opening text to booklet accompanying Stan Sharshal’s solo art show at the High Museum of Art, Atlanta, Georgia 1981.
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Trailer
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Experimental fiction published in Chicago Review, Volume 32, No 2, 1980.
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Reporter
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Experimental fiction published in Chicago Review, Volume 31, No. 2, 1979.
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Act One, Act Two
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Text poems, published in The Bitter Oleander, Volume 1, No. 2, 1975.
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