Lee Keanes - KILLER KITSCH QUEEN
Lee Keanes - KILLER KITSCH QUEEN
- Artsistic Research
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- Artsistic Research
Lee Keanes - KILLER KITSCH QUEEN
About Me
Lee is a queer performance-artist, singer and community-musician and theatre-faciliator. She has Scottish roots and is based in Hamburg (Germany). Her main interests are: Kitsch, Folklore, ecology and Intercultural Dialogue.
2023-today (Germany)
- Solo-performances 'Killer Kitsch Queen' at venues such as: Honigfabrik, Klangtherapie Festival, K-Stampf Festival, Kulturelle Landpartie, Kulturpunkt Barsch, Laster Konzerte, 48h Wilhelmsburg, Haus 73, Elbinselkonzerte, Kulturladen St.Georg, Hafenbühne, Hafenbahnhof, Hummustopia, Kampf der Künste, Kiezpoeten, Haus Drei
- Rickshaw-Performances 'The Mermaid who lost her Tail'
- Artistic Research 'Searching for our Magical Beings'
- Social-Media and fundraising for Kulturkapelle
- Musical Improv Group 'Jokebox'
- Collaboration with performance artist and musician Migati on the topic of queerness
2019-2022 (Germany)
- Community Music project 'Trimum e.V.' in deprived innercity neighbourhood Mümmelmannsberg (Hamburg): Creating dialogue and intercultural collaborations
- Interdisziplinary research group 'Music and Sustainability'
- Performance on the topic of interreligious dialogue for 'Interreligious Women's Network Germany'
- "Stadtteilkümmerin", organising neighbourhood-events, neighbourhood-conferences and two street-festivals with over 7000 visitors, Bezirksamt Hamburg Mitte
- Performance for research project 'Relative Distance' on social-distancing, Kampnagel
- Performance on the topic of 'Kassia - Rebel Poet' with Istanbul Women's museum and Kainkollektiv
- Part of the 'Sales & Distribution'-team at Kampnagel
2017-2019 (Germany)
- Theatrepedagogue in different settings with nursery- and school-children
2015-2016 (Germany, France)
- Interactive ecology-performance "Gardenfairy Dieschen" in an urban garden
- Theatre-workshops at an environmental organisation 'L'Amour de la Terre' in the small village Simorre in the South of France
- Director's assistant (Regieassistenz) at the Braunschweig Staatstheater
2015 - BA Contemporary Performance Practice (Performance Art), Royal Conservatoire of Scotland
2012-2015 - Projects including: Performance Art Pieces, Community Theatre, Community Music
- Solo-Performances about: Mental health, alter-egos, feminism and ecology
- Choreographic dance-performance 'The Unexpected'
- Theatre- and Dance-Workshops for teenagers with special needs at 'Sense Scotland' and 'Loop Theatre'
- Community-Music project with war-traumatised adults in Croatia 'Balkan Summer Music Camps'
- 'Center for Happiness Research' - 3 month immersive theatre-experience in which primary school children researched happiness
- Mandarin-English bilingual theatre-piece 'Hand-Made in China', Edinburgh Fringe Festival
- Community Music project in a hospital for cancer-treatment
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