Amanda Lee: Survivor Guilt
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Hello Friends and Strangers!
After over 10 years of booking concerts and curating visual art shows in Cleveland and beyond, I finally began to share my own work with the public about two years ago.
My art is mostly for live performance, including live video, body performance, and sound collage. I have also created works to be recorded and released online and in DVD formats, as well as videos for other sound artists.
This October I was selected to participate in the New Orleans Performing Arts Festival, to take place the weekend after Thanksgiving. I am honored to have the opportunity to present a new work I’ve been making entitled “Survivor Guilt.” If you’d like to know more about the work please see below. I’m also thrilled to meet similar artists from around the world.
What I need from my friends is financial help - Travel, housing, materials, as well as the cost of missing work while living in Brooklyn is all adding up. Even a few dollars will help immensely! Thanks for reading friends, and please see below if you’re interested in the piece.
“Survivor Guilt”
Amanda Lee
My work addresses the specific juxtapositions that exist only in American culture. Every day all but a few Americans are faced with an onslaught of war, terror, attacks on other countries, threats to their healthcare, and police brutality to name a few. Scrolling through your social media you could, without trying, see a video of a man getting murdered in cold blood by the very people meant to protect you. In the face of all this violence and fear, we still somehow manage to go to work, to have hobbies, and do things for fun. The most stark example of this is the American addiction to consumerism and shopping. When stressed out we may spend hours on Amazon looking for the right dress, or binge watch an entire twelve season series - an idea that did not even exist ten years ago. We love to loose ourselves in action movies with a hero to save us all, one good guy who will turn things around. We are scared to be the good guy ourselves - or we can't afford to.
Sometimes, we cannot hold it together. We cry when mass shootings happen, or cry over nothing and wonder what's wrong. We have panic attacks and are not sure why. Our mental health problems increase every day and we don't have the resources to deal with it.
My video, sound, and body performance are all meant to address the ways we "hold it together." The piece is performed as Survivor Guilt - named from a personal feeling I have at being not directly affected by most tragedies, but also feeling too paralyzed to help.
Hello Friends and Strangers!
After over 10 years of booking concerts and curating visual art shows in Cleveland and beyond, I finally began to share my own work with the public about two years ago.
My art is mostly for live performance, including live video, body performance, and sound collage. I have also created works to be recorded and released online and in DVD formats, as well as videos for other sound artists.
This October I was selected to participate in the New Orleans Performing Arts Festival, to take place the weekend after Thanksgiving. I am honored to have the opportunity to present a new work I’ve been making entitled “Survivor Guilt.” If you’d like to know more about the work please see below. I’m also thrilled to meet similar artists from around the world.
What I need from my friends is financial help - Travel, housing, materials, as well as the cost of missing work while living in Brooklyn is all adding up. Even a few dollars will help immensely! Thanks for reading friends, and please see below if you’re interested in the piece.
“Survivor Guilt”
Amanda Lee
My work addresses the specific juxtapositions that exist only in American culture. Every day all but a few Americans are faced with an onslaught of war, terror, attacks on other countries, threats to their healthcare, and police brutality to name a few. Scrolling through your social media you could, without trying, see a video of a man getting murdered in cold blood by the very people meant to protect you. In the face of all this violence and fear, we still somehow manage to go to work, to have hobbies, and do things for fun. The most stark example of this is the American addiction to consumerism and shopping. When stressed out we may spend hours on Amazon looking for the right dress, or binge watch an entire twelve season series - an idea that did not even exist ten years ago. We love to loose ourselves in action movies with a hero to save us all, one good guy who will turn things around. We are scared to be the good guy ourselves - or we can't afford to.
Sometimes, we cannot hold it together. We cry when mass shootings happen, or cry over nothing and wonder what's wrong. We have panic attacks and are not sure why. Our mental health problems increase every day and we don't have the resources to deal with it.
My video, sound, and body performance are all meant to address the ways we "hold it together." The piece is performed as Survivor Guilt - named from a personal feeling I have at being not directly affected by most tragedies, but also feeling too paralyzed to help.
Organizer
Amanda Lee
Organizer
Brooklyn, NY
