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Doug(las) Lewis 3rdPracticeProjects
and recent work 
Sounds and Visions, Installation, Yan Huang Museum, Beijing, 2018
Sounds then Visions Installation, Yan Huang Museum, Beijing, 2018 "Lewis blurs cultural anthropology (ethnography) and art, and calibrates things materially by throwing in (and sharing) his perspective" -artist, curator, Gilles Hebert, 2017.
Doors, single channel video, Hong Kong, 2019
Doors and Anjialo Lu installation, 2019
Grandworld, Photo on flag, 2016Tito's Cave, Grandworld, Performance/photography, 2017
Grand World installation, Geely University, 2018
Process, digital photo on silk flag, 2018
Transparent Grandworld, Art Gallery Nanjing, 2014
INk Me in Beijing , Digital print, performance, 2016
Ellipsis,
mixed-media audio installation, 2005 |
I live, work and travel between China and Canada, and travel extensively to other countries. My life is quite nomadic, and any sense of belonging to "place" has been stretched between geographies, cultures, languages, and politics. My transitory existence has provided me with lenses to watch expanding, and at times colliding cultures. My art practice is based on the idea of me remaining a “constant stranger" that is always becoming the place that I am in and always in- flux. My work is "Fluxus-like" in that it is a response to everyday moments and never specific to any medium. I learn what it is I need to do to make my work. All my work points towards the aesthetics of urban consciousness.
My current work is entitled “Sounds and Visions”, and is an ongoing exploration into the phenomenon of what happens in between how we experience the delay between what we see and what we hear - that results in a form of cinematic praxis. Selected mediums include photography, audio-video, audio, sculpture, and performance. As a curator, I work have worked for museums in Canada and China and have had years of museological training. My independent curatorial research explores a concept I call 3rd Practice Projects. It is a reflexive exploration or collaboration with artists and exhibition-making. Bellini's New Form, single channel video, 2019
Screening the Wall, digital photo, 2015
Basketcase installation, Songzhuan, Beijing, 2018
Screening at the Drum&Bell, single-Channel video, 2015
Screening at Drum&Bell Tower, performance, 2015
Screening at Drum&Bell Tower, video installation, Nanjing, 2017
Tourism, digital print, 2009Why Not Snooze, #2, single-channel video, 2015
Sideways, digital photo, 2015, Canada
Antonioni's Revenge, Video installation, 2008
Onlooking, Hamilton Art Gallery, 2004
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Mobile phone collection 2014 -present
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Sračok & Pöhlmann is a project founded in Susak, Croatia, in 2006, by Herman Sračok and Rupert Pöhlmann. They support leading contemporary artists and are working in an international landscape, developing exhibition spaces in London, Croatia and New York. contact: Sračok & Pöhlmann
<Sračok & Pöhlmann> <IRCCA > <Canada 100> Sino-Weibo interview
In|Outsource International Project, Art Museum Nanjing (AMNUA), 2015
3rdPracticeProjects
My practice is in two distinct parts: a "museum" approach as well as something I call "3rd practice". The 3rd practice is a hybrid collaboration between selected artists and myself, in a system where we produce together through a system of "call-and-response". My curatorial practice is influenced by my art practice in that my focus is to locate social and theoretical dynamics; researching artists and histories that aim to locate the "present". I am interested in how the global affects the local, and how the local effects the global.
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Jus' Toyin Around , "3rd Practice", was an international Exhibition held in Winnipeg, Canada, July 2017. It featured 12 artists from around the world, two local poets ( Grant Guy, Glen Johnson) and myself on bass guitar.
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Streetgames Series, digital photography, Beijing, 2007 |
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"Lewis' artwork explores relational environments between social and subconscious spaces using a constantly evolving variety of mediums that often include video, photo, audio, sculpture, performance and installation media". -artist Andy Denzler, 2006
Streetgames Series,digital photography, Beijing, 2007 | ||||