John Lee 

Programme Leader - Street Arts 

Arts 

Email:

John.Lee@winchester.ac.uk 

Phone:

+44 (0) 1962 827335 

Address:

Expertise

Street arts, disguised clown, live art, devising, Commedia dell’arte, physical theatre, site specific performance and live art, current debates, sound and body, drama improvisation, performance histories, creative entrepreneurship

Publications

Funded by Arts Council, Gulbenkian Foundation, Millennium Commission to research performance installations (Café Lente). Also performance research with Misguided Tour - a site specific comic tour using fictional / non fictional interface. Also consultant and national and international reputation as a teacher of the Fool, clown and physical comedy. Past awards from AHRC to pursue postgraduate studies as well as bursaries from Arts Council as writer.
Arts Council and University of Winchester RKE ,Taunton Deane and Somerset County Council funded Third Life
Streetjam Application of Street Arts models of practice with urban council strategic aims around engaging young people in urban and rural areas
Village feteIronic take on local country life as an interactive installation told also online
Ice Cream Van of Horror - ice cream van /mini cinema mixing Surrealism and short animations

Research Interests

Street arts, disguised clown, live art, site specific practice, devising, site specific performance,, physical comedy, the fool and clown, Commedia dell’arte.