image from "Sound then Vision" installation, 2017

Doug(las) Lewis     
I live between China and Canada,  travelling often. I find myself constantly situated between cultures, peoples, places and politics. My nomadic existence provides me with evolving lenses to experience  the world through. I practice the idea of being the constant stranger, meaning how and where I arrive I become the place that I am. All of my work and interests are in finding ways to make things happen. I fancy the idea of my work being seen as some form of alchemic travelogue or experimental research. My work is made by collecting everyday events that culminate as installations in one form or another, all pointing toward the  phenomena of  human consciousness. I am developing an idea called Cinematica, which is an attempt to explore "aesthetics of epilepsy".  My recent work is site-specific, reflexive and based on cinematic praxis but my selected mediums range from photography, video, audio, sculpture, installation, and performance.  And music.  
​As a curator, I work have worked for museums in Canada and China. My focus on independent projects explore a concept I call third practice:  artist/curator, place/gallery and concept/context. 
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 "Lewis blurs cultural anthropology (ethnography) and art, and calibrates things materially by throwing in (and sharing) his perspective"           - Gilles Hebert      
   Curator Rebecca Catching, interview for Canadian Embassy, Shanghai   Sino-Weibo interview

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Screenplay Series, video, photo, performance, 2012

              #1,2,3  Rickshaw Guys, digital photos , 2015 

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      Digital print, from the performace work entitled "Write me in Beijing".  Rice paper, ink. 2016

    Divisions series, #1,  digital photo, 2008

        Screening the Screen, digital photo, 2015

  Antonion's Revenge, Video installation, 2008

      Divisions series, #2, digital photo, 2009

Cell-ing art    My camera on my phone is like a compass that guides me on streets through cities I travel through. ​

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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

As a curator 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.  

 In|Outsource International Project,  Art Museum Nanjing (AMNUA), 2015

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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Contact:  Onlooking67@gmail.com

"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