MELINDA LEE

NEW (Video):
Lines of Fictions (work in progress) on You Tube
Performance by Melinda Lee at The Kitchen, New York City
March 22nd, 2010
Supported by The Field Emerging Artist Residency

PERFORMANCE DOCUMENTATION:
come, come to your common senses
Esplanade Sparks 6 Commission
The Theater Studio, Esplanade, Singapore
Performance by Melinda Lee with guest Jason Wee
August 31st, 2008





























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...And Other Gentle Cruelties
Performance by Sera Kim-Huenergard, Ariel Polonsky, Melinda Lee
Dance New Amsterdam, New York City
December 13-15, 2007



























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Things To Do With Your Mouth
Performance by Sunder Ashni, Iolet Francis, Angela Helland, Sera Kim-Huenergard, Emilie Barrett, Melinda Lee
Media and Sound by Ernesto Klar
Directed by Melinda Lee
March 7-10, 2007
Through Lower Manhattan Cultural Council Swing Space Residency

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PORTFOLIOS:

01:01: REPORTAGE
01:05: PORTRAITS
01:06: ANIMAL PORTRAITS
01:09: BODYSCAPES*

02:01: INTERIORS*
02:06: EXTERIORS

03:01: ACCIDENTAL IRONIES*
03:05: SKETCHES
03:09: DESIGN

04:01: NATURE
04:06: ON LOCATION

*Series descriptions:

BODYSCAPES
My Bodyscapes Series isn't just looking for human geometry, but accumulations, coincidences, chance, knowing glances; masses of people are choreographies with more than a little accidental magic. Seeking to discover what draws people together surely will provide evidence for understanding what it is that also drives us apart.

INTERIORS/EXTERIORS (MISE EN SCENE)
Mise en scene are my favorite kind of shot to compile, since by their emptiness they indicate every kind of potentiality in every kind of dimension (dwarves, deaths, and dames, if you're David Lynch, for example).

ACCIDENTAL IRONIES
The Accidental Ironies series looks to trash heaps, gutters, storefronts, signages, and, of course, the royal court of accumulated junk--the fleamarket--for quaint, disturbing, enlightening or poignant situations, all in the spirit of MONGO: the retrieval of discarded objects.

ON LOCATION: ANGKOR WAT, CAMBODIA

A wedding party waits in the shade between glamour shots

The bride

The sun beating down won't keep souvenir and craft vendors from stalking the crowd surrounding the wedding, or wedding getwawy car

Angkor is st an active spiritual place

Angkor reflected in a pond as days breaks

A broken Naga (multi-headed snake) cranes its neck

Only when you turn away from the magnificence does magic make sense--crowd grows with the light

The crowd at dawn

Angkor at sunrise, with water lillies

Siem Reap water snake on the grill

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ON LOCATION: NEW YORK

Click on any image to get closer. (c) 2005-2007

Nostrand Ave empty lot, Brooklyn

Garage Jazz Club, Ave of the Americas, West Village

Manhattan Bridge, Manhattan side

"Children's Lingerie", Herald Square

Ave of the Americas (6th Ave), north view (Jefferson Market public library in the horizon)

North 11th St, Williamsburg, Brooklyn

4th of July fireworks 2005, from Stuyvesant Cove

Find your bliss, Queens

"Small, Medium, Large, BIG" -- Snow cone vendor's stand, Annual Dragonboat and Dumpling Festival, Flushing, Queens

Full moon over Canal and Broadway, Chinatown

Full moon over 6th Ave and Varick, West Village

Full moon over Nostrand Ave, Brooklyn

Full moon early morning over my next door neighbours