LIVE PERFORMANCE & VIDEO WORKS

SUBTERRANE

BUCHAN CAVES, VICTORIA, AUSTRALIA // 2024

Live A/V performance written, composed and performed by Cindy Lee & David Swift (Raven & the Dove). Video projection, soundscape, spoken word and live original music and song. 8 shows performed in the Blackwood Chamber of the Fairy Cave at Buchan Caves Reserve for the East Gippsland Winter Festival.

CAVE SONGS

BUCHAN CAVES, VICTORIA, AUSTRALIA // 2023

Live A/V performance written, composed and performed by Cindy Lee & David Swift (Raven & the Dove). Video projection, soundscape, spoken word and live original music and song. 8 shows performed in the Blackwood Chamber of the Fairy Cave at Buchan Caves Reserve for the East Gippsland Winter Festival.

SONGS FROM THE VALLEY

EAST GIPPSLAND, VICTORIA, AUSTRALIA // 2021-2023

Live A/V performance written and performed by Cindy Lee & David Swift (Raven & the Dove). Songs, storytelling and video based on Raven & the Dove’s 2021 album The Valley inspired by local histories of the famous, infamous and everyday folk that make a town. Supported by Regional Arts Victoria Bushfire Recovery grant.

Performed for free to bushfire affected community of Buchan, Victoria. Further performances at 2 East Gippsland Winter Festivals, country rural small halls such as Lake Tyers Beach Hall, Gelantipy Hall and exerpts at Bundy Hall.

CHURNING THE OCEAN

LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA, USA // 2016-2019

Live A/V performance written and performed by Cindy Lee with Australian sound artist Tom Hall. Spoken word, video projection, vocals by Cindy Lee. Live soundscape by Tom Hall.
SHOWN AT: Mahasukha Center, Playa Vista, LA, CA

2016-2019: Series of live A/V shows of myth and music, story and song, presented at retreat events at Cambria Pines Lodge. // 2019 “ACHINTYA” by Cindy Lee & Brian Reid at “Soul Fire” event // 2018 “ON THE LOGOS” by Cindy Lee at “Gimme Shelter” event // 2017 “ONCE I HEARD THIS” by Cindy Lee & Douglas Paul Smith at “Spectrum of Awakening” event.

SIDDHA SONGS

USA // 2011-2015

Various presentations and events using video, illustration, music and movement to explore themes of eastern philosophy.
Presented across the USA: 2014 ABSOLUTE INFINITE - Moving through the chakras // 2013 – SONG OF THE OPEN ROAD – Hero’s Journey as a path of practice // 2013 - BREAKING THE CHAIN - 12 Links of Dependent Origination // 2012 - TRUE NATURE – The 9 images of Buddha Nature // 2011-2014 - SIDDHA SONGS – Stories, songs and poems of the Mahasiddhas.

TRUE NATURE

NEW YORK, USA & TORONTO, CANADA // 2012

Short Film (4:34min) live action and motion graphics of hand drawn and digital illustrations inspired by the nine metaphors of "Buddha Nature" from the Buddhist text the "Uttara Tantra."
With music by AN-TEN-AE and FreQ Nasty.
SHOWN AT: SOHO HOUSE New York City and SOHO HOUSE Toronto, Canada.

PURVIEW

LOS ANGELES, USA // 2006

Short film (8mins) live action and interviews exploring the intersection between received Hollywood storytelling and the amateur archiving of our own lives with domestic technology.
SHOWN AT: Installation at the 18th St Arts Center, Santa Monica, CA / "Pop Tarts," at Highways Performance Space, Santa Monica, CA, USA
Created during three month Australia Council sponsored Artist Residency in Los Angeles.

PLAY

MELBOURNE, AUSTRALIA // 1999-2006

Short Film (3:30mins) edit, animation and manipulation of archival Super8 and VHS footage responding to notions of Australia through the lens of the Asian immigrant experience in suburban Australia.
SHOWN AT: Permanent Installation (7 years) in the Australia Gallery at the Melbourne Museum, Carlton.

FIFTYFOURVILLE

EUROPE // 2004-2005

Video projection for dance work (54mins) by Australian choreographer Prue Lang created in residencies in Brussels, Dusseldorf and Berlin.
Co-production: Hebbel am Ufer Berlin, tanzhaus nw Düsseldorf, Künstlerhaus Mousonturm Frankfurt, Rencontres Chorégraphiques Internationales de Seine-Saint-Denis Paris
Supported by: STUK kunstencentrum Leuven, Fonds Darstellende Künste e.V aus den Mitteln der Beauftragten des Bundes für Kultur und Medien

SHOWN AT:
Hebbel-am-ufer (HAU 3) Berlin, GERMANY 2004
Tanzhaus NRW Düsseldorf GERMANY 2005
Künstlerhaus Mousonturm Frankfurt GERMANY 2004
Rencontres choregraphiques internationales de Seine-Saint-Denis Paris FRANCE 2005
Kalamata International Dance Festival, GREECE 2005

THE VIDEO NASTY EXPERIENCE

UK & EUROPE // 2003-2005

Live audio-visual show (1 hour) DJ’d by music producer FreQ Nasty, with custom made graphics designed by Cindy Lee (art direction, development of motion graphics, VJing of live shows.)

SHOWN AT: UK and Europe festivals such as the 2004 Glastonbury Festival in the UK, Glu Glu in Budapest, Break Nation in Spain and Lab Art in St Petersburg and clubs such as Fabric London, Carling Academy, Bristol.
Print exhibition of show graphics at Charterhouse, London.

Other VJ work as MIKE TEE VEE with James Verdon for UNKLE (Forum theatre Melbourne)

UNCHARTED

GERMANY // 2004

Short Film (5 minutes). Written and Directed by Prue Lang, Edited by Cindy Lee. Performed by Crystal Pite and Richard Siegal. A couple contend with the discrepancies between physical and mental space in a cryptic dual occupancy.
SHOWN AT: Bockenheimer Depot/TAT, Frankfurt GERMANY 2004
CO-PRODUCTION : Ballett Frankfurt -Das TAT/ Bockenheimer depot Frankfurt

SCREENPLAY

GERMANY // 2003-2004

Video installaction cascading down three screening levels in collaboration with Australian choreographer Prue Lang and French writer David Le Barzic. This work is an experiment in choregraphed reading.

SHOWN AT:
* Bockenheimer Depot/ Das TAT, Frankfurt GERMANY 2003
* Pelerinages Festival, Weimar GERMANY 2004

MASKED GANNET

AUSTRALIA // 2002

Short film (6min) SP Betacam. Writer/Director/Producer: Josephine Wright // DOP: Tim Maloney // Editor: Cindy Lee // Cast: Alice Garner, John Nasser, David Bowers, Damian Wright

An early morning surfing trip opens up love, ritual and the small gestures by which individuals in a group gauge who they and others are.

SHOWN AT: St Kilda Film Festival official selection.

VAPOUR

GERMANY // 2001

Video installation in collaboration with choreographer Prue Lang.
SHOWN AT: Bockenheimer Depot/TAT, Frankfurt 2001.

AZIMUTH

MELBOURNE. AUSTRALIA // 1998

Sound installation in collaboration with This Digital Ocean
SHOWN AT: Experimenta’s “short short and very current at Lonsdale St Power Station”