AMERICAN REMEDIATION

2027 (forthcoming). 16mm and HD video, color, sound, 20:59. Canada/US.

American Remediation traces a decaying U.S. government film — shot in Arizona, distributed across the Global South, now at the National Archives — through an Indigenous film archive in Oaxaca and back to Arizona in new 16mm, where the landscape it mythologized is now worked by those whose displacement it helped engineer. Ripped, copied, and aged, the image becomes artifact rather than record.

Cinematography: Owen Smith-Clark
Editing: Matt Hixon
Sound: Emile Klein

Produced by the Canadian Centre for Architecture and Andy Lee Studio

REFRAMING THE AMERICAN LANDSCAPE (Recadrer le paysage américain)
Exhibition, Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal, 1 October 2026 - 3 January 2027
Curated by Andy Lee

Conceived by Andy Lu Lee within the framework of the CCA's 2024-2025 Emerging Curator Residency Program, the exhibition Reframing the American Landscape presents a critical re-circulation of
a state documentary film. As it transits its own material histories, its re-projection, re-filming, and re-framing expose the political and physical precarity of a US-centric American landscape. Through three works, each a screen of light that successively reformats and reframes the landscape, the exhibition positions the archival object outside the state archive through other forms of media production, collection, and circulation. Enlivened by its own material history, the archival document escapes the institution that gave it meaning—destabilizing the image it once carried and projecting it onto an American landscape outside its framing.

Works in the exhibition:
Archive I, 2026. fifteen light boxes, 99.3 × 125.3 × 5.1 cm
Archive II, 2026. light box, 59.4 × 42 × 5.1 cm
Archive III, 2026. Video installation, cotton tarp, steel wire, 16mm and archival film transferred to digital and HD, color, sound, 19:46. Tarp: 201.3 × 355.6 cm.

AMERICAN EMULSION

2026, video installation
Andy Lee, US/Germany, 19:10, HD, color

In 1949, President Harry Truman announced four foreign policy goals to counter communism in Europe and the Global South. Alongside the vast transformation of rural territory, the U.S. screened images of development drawn from its own hinterland. Exposed onto 16mm, American landscapes emulsify on American acetate and are projected onto surfaces across the globe, where chemical compounds become alchemical transformations of territory, environment, and nature. Against the pastoral backdrop of a German barn, American Emulsion revisits the images through which U.S. soft power remade the German countryside, processes that continue to shape and destabilize it.

FIELD ARCHIVE

2026. Exhibition installation; 26 aluminum camping tables, four digital monitors on C-stands, GoPro cameras, projectors, with drawings, models, and field studies from the Pratt Institute Master of Landscape Architecture program.
Installed at Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, March 24–May 17, 2026.

Field Archive: Landscape Architecture in Process presents student work from the Master of Landscape Architecture program as an evolving collective record of inquiry — an archive of the ground defined through site and section, a horizontal register along which shared authorship foregrounds landscape as a field condition shaped by research, collaboration, and material investigation. The landscape is archived through its many objects and mediums of inquiry: the drawings, models, mappings, images, and full-scale studies that apprehend landscape as a bounded form constantly conditioned by boundless ecological, infrastructural, and cultural processes.

AMERICAN DISORIENTATION

2024, pamphlet

American Disorientation presents a collective panoramic of the American landscape under disorientation, a series of views that begins to piece together the methodologies, strategies, and processes through which the contemporary American landscape is envisioned, engaged, and produced.

FEATURING
Abra Lee, Ben Balcom, DEGROWNYC, Dept, Marilyn Machado Mosquera, Mike Gibisser, Neyran Turan, Oficina de Resiliencia Urbana, Roberto Ransom Ruiz, Tania Tovar Torres, and Cruz Garcia and Nathalie Frankowski of WAI Think Tank

MEMORY LOSS

2024. Panoramic video installation, digital video and animation, color, stereo sound, 19:00; aluminum conduit, clear acrylic. 360° screen: 365.8 cm (h) × 731.5 cm (diameter).
Installed at Jim Shields Gallery, University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee, April 17–May 31, 2024.

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TRACKING ARIZONA

2023. Digital video and 3D animation, color, 4:00.

In the aftermath of the Mexican-American War, the United States acquired a large tract of land along the Mexican-American border through the Gadsden Purchase of 1854. Flatter and providing a more direct route for the transcontinental railroad, the hinterlands are continuously reconstructed along a continental tracking shot. A vast and ecologically diverse arid landscape is flattened along shifting the planes of fore-, middle-, and background, a picturesque of the American southwest.

American Interiority and its Subjects

2026, essay

https://www.cca.qc.ca/en/articles/105776/american-interiority-and-its-subjects

Tracking Across the American Desert:
Translations of the American Landscape to the Helmand Valley and Back, JAE 77.2

2023, essay

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A MONUMENT TO INTERIORITY FROM THE DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

2020, landscape architecture

GSD Thesis Project

A Picturesque for the Third Ecology

2023, presentation for MoMA and the Icelandic University of the Arts

TEACHING

Featured:
LAR 704 — Park
Fourth Semester Core Landscape Studio
2025, 2026
Pratt Institute, Master of Landscape Architecture

ARCH 650 — Site Unseen
Vertical Elective Studio
Spring 2024
University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee

ARCH 533 — Going on Tour: Site-Seeing the American Landscape
Theory and Representation Seminar
Fall 2023
University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee