Impossible Performances (2022)

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Impossible Performances Somewhere inside your head there’s a show happening. Not so much audio drama as a series of guided hallucinations. Skewed Visions presents a limited podcast performance, a series of 12 Impossible Performances, fever dreams that bubble up from beneath everyday life, elegies and enigmas that reflect our world in intimate and unsettling ways,…

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State of Loss (2021)

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Created by Charles Campbell by mail Sent October 9 –  October 30, 2021. Reception dates varied. Skewed Visions produced a memorial by-mail performance commemorating the losses we have faced since the first death in the US from COVID. Titled State of Loss, it was created by Charles Campbell after the pandemic shut down all performing…

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Cubicle3 (2021)

Curated by Charles Campbell In the middle of a turbulent year of pandemic and uprising, with “essential workers” on the “front lines” and others working from home, we presented Cubicle3: Work. Now. We commissioned short videos inspired by these changes, challenges, and new circumstances. These works stand as markers of that moment in 2020 when…

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Birds of the Future (2019)

Birds Of The Future

Created by Charles Campbell   at Fresh Oysters Performance Research 512 E 24th St, Minneapolis Thursday, May 25 – Saturday, June 8, 2019. All shows 8:00pm A piece about apocalypse, chaos, and hope. A taxonomy of failed utopian impulses. A cycle of nostalgic atrophy. The urge to transcend cyclic utopian collapse. Tenderness, danger, migration, apocalyptic…

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Want (2018)

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Want (2018) Created by Charles Campbell in collaboration with the performers Erika Hansen & Megan Mayer Commissioned as part of the 2018 Right Here Showcase Walking in New York city in April 2018, I was struck by the sight of a building that as so tall and thin it looked like a toy. Back in…

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Appetite (2017)

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Created by Charles Campbell APPETITE was an experiment in performance using the principle of audio feedback as a creative tool made live in collaboration between Skewed Visions co-founder Charles Campbell and composer/sound designer Ted Moore. Inspired by sources as varied as Guy Debord’s The Society of the Spectacle, Chris Marker’s sci-fi film-novel, La Jetee, the…

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Losing Kantor (2016)

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Created by Charles Campbell Losing Kantor played for 8 performances between October 7 and 22, 2016 at Fresh Oysters Performance Research Tadeusz Kantor was an influential and uncompromisingly radical visual artist and theater-maker born in Poland in 1925. His drawings, paintings, objects, writings, theories, and performances continue to influence many artists internationally, and were always a…

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EX (2014-2016)

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Created by Charles Campbell, October 2014 Performers: Charles Campbell, Annie Enneking, Megan Mayer, Billy Mullaney Lights: Heidi Eckwall Sound: Elliott Durko Finch Suit building: Alison Heimstead Production Manager: Blake Bolan What was EX? It was not an epic story of human struggle. It was not a political parable for our times. It was not about you and…

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Invisible City (2013)

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Created by Sean Kelley-Pegg, June 11-30, 2013   You receive an urgent message: “I have the documents for you. Meet me in the cafe. Make sure you’re not being watched.” Will you follow his instructions? Invisible City was a free public art event using smartphones. Unlocking chapters of a spy story and uncovering hidden spaces in the…

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Black Water (2012)

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Created by Charles Campbell Performers: Charles Campbell, Megan Mayer, Laurie Van Wieren Lights: Heidi Eckwall Object Design: Irve Dell Construction: Willis Bowman, Irve Dell, Alex Walton Video: Kevin Obsatz Sound: Elliott Durko Finch Projection Manager: Alex Grant Drone Pilot: Brandon Reinert Production Manager: Megan Mayer Black Water was created in the former Spiro’s Mediterranean Market space on the University Avenue…

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