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Doug(las) Lewis - Selected Works
Between Sound and Vision, digital print, mylar, 70x80 ", 2015
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I lived between China and Canada for 14 years, travelling extensively and gained a particular relationship with the concept of "place" - stretching between geographies, cultures, languages, and politics. My art practice is based on a concept of a “constant stranger", one in constant negotiation with context: "I am the place where I am " (H. Lefebvre). My work and my curating are both very personal responses international concerns.
My current artwork is a mixed-media exploration titled “Sound and Visions” and is based on a cinematic praxis. Mediums include photography, audio-video, 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. When both curating and my art practice collide, they become a third practice. The "3rd Practice" occurs with a variety of forms of research, usually with multiple artists that result in exhibitions or events. The 3rd Practice is a mix of art collaborations and "chance operations" (J Cage). It's intention is mainly to create a "call and response" 
Wild West, 2015, Manitoba, Canada, digital photo
Bellini's New Form, single channel video, 2019
Basket Cases, installation, Songzhuan, Beijing, 2018
Screening at the Drum&Bell, single-Channel video, 2015
Screening at Drum&Bell Tower, video installation, Nanjing, 2017
The Wall, digital print, 40x60 ", 2006Why Not Snooze, #2, single-channel video, 2015
Screen-cycle, digital photo, 45"x 55" |
Night Cycle Story, 2018, Single Channel video, photo installation
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Co-curated exhibition, In/Outsourcing 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.
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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 | ||||