Doug Lewis

Douglas Lewis
Artist Talk + Screening
Friday, August 10, 2012
7pm Video Pool 3^rd Floor Studio
Free event + open to the public

Video Pool Media Arts Centre invites you to attend an Artist Talk and Screening by Winnipeg artist and curator Doug Lewis.  Lewis will be presenting his latest work “Screenplay” and discussing the ‘screen’ as an object that holds both our anticipation and simultaneously delays our sense of expectation. In addition, Lewis will be drawing parallels between neurological functions and cinematic perceptions based upon the recently released book Memory by Alison Winter.

Video Pool is pleased to screen two works by Doug Lewis: “ScreenPlay and Mountain” and “Drum and Bell”.

Doug Lewis is a Winnipeg artist and curator presently living and working in Beijing, China. He has exhibited in Canada, United States, England, Croatia and China. He holds a BFA from University of Manitoba and MA in Fine Arts from Chelsea College of Art, London with a special focus on curating as art practice.
Lewis’ practice is research-based and his projects begin as research into everyday events and result in works that can differ greatly from one idea and medium to another. He states, “art is something that is allowed to happen” and uses his mediums in such a way as to reveal everyday events.
His most recent work entitled “Screenplay” consists of public interventions resulting in video and photography and loosely based on Charlie Chaplin’s film Behind the Screen.