Our works
Islands of Chekhov (2008)
Created by Charles Campbell …we could be in the presence of the unicorn and we would not know for certain that it was one. We know that a certain animal with a mane is a horse, and that one with horns is a bull. We do not know what the unicorn is like… – Jorge…
Read MoreVisits With Woyzeck (2008)
Created by Charles Campbell, February – March 2008 Performers: Charles Campbell, Jim Bovino Using objects, projections of hand drawn images, music from Alban Berg’s opera, Wozzeck, home-made film, text and a two foot open box frame, Visits With Woyzeck explored Büchner’s famously fragmented work in the context of Toy Theater for Open Eye Figure Theatre’s 2008 Toy Theater After…
Read MoreStrange Love (2007)
Created by Charles Campbell & Sean Kelley-Pegg In September and October 2007 Skewed Visions presented Strange Love (device/performance) a two-part site-specific performance and event exploring contemporary and historical cultures of fear by re-animating Stanley Kubrick’s Cold War satire Dr. Strangelove, Or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb. Charles Campbell and Sean…
Read MoreDays and Nights (2006)
In celebration of its tenth anniversary, Skewed Visions presented Days and Nights, an immersive performance experience created by the company for the historic Grain Belt Brewery office building, between April 14 and May 14, 2006. Consisting of Sean Kelley-Pegg’s Time For Bed, Charles Campbell and Cherri Macht’s A Quiet Ambition, and Gülgün Kayim’s The Hidden Room, this series of…
Read MoreThe City Itself (2004-2005)
The City Itself was a performance triptych created by the company that traversed landscapes both real and imagined, private and public. Consisting of two site-specific performances and a sound installation, the series invited viewers to explore secret spaces and hidden lives, using Minneapolis as the canvas. The series framework allowed us to take an extended look…
Read MorePipes (2003-2004)
Created by Charles Campbell Performers: Charles Campbell, Cherri Macht Grinder operator: Heidi Eckwall Created in response to continued infringement of human rights in the name of security, Pipes was a multidisciplinary piece layering a short story by Julio Cortázar, medical records, movement, a towering eight foot table, and sound to evoke an underworld of nightmares and wishes. Pipes took…
Read MoreThe Orange Grove (2003)
Created by Gülgün Kayim Performers: Natalya Baldyga, Jody (Blindauer) Bee, Charles Campbell, Nathan Christopher, Juliette Dannucci, Tom Lynch, Cherri Macht, Julian McFaul, Michael Ritchie Set & prop design and production: Willis Bowman Lighting: Owen Moldow Sound: Katharine Horowitz Media: Sean Kelley-Pegg Costumes: Stephanie Molstad Notes on The Orange Grove Set in a large vacant warehouse, The Orange Grove was a story of a family’s…
Read MoreYou Are Here (2002)
Created by Charles Campbell and Steve Epley Commissioned by the Weisman Art Museum as part of their Public Art On Campus program, You Are Here was a site-specific performance at the Tate Lab of Physics created by Charles Campbell and architect Steve Epley in collaboration with the Astronomy Department at the University of Minnesota. It…
Read MoreThe Eye in the Door, part 3: The Bicycle (1999)
Created by Charles Campbell and Steve Epley, August 1999 Performers: Rebecca (Myers) Yoho, Sarah (Corzatt) Richardson Objects and Bicycle: Steve Epley Manager: Krista Pearson The Bicycle was created in collaboration with architect Steve Epley. An artistic and humorous intervention in consumer culture, the piece was performed along Nicollet Mall in Minneapolis. At the height of…
Read MoreThe Eye in the Door, part 2: Breakfast of Champions (1998)
Created by Gülgün Kayim, August 1998 Performers: Charles Campbell, Paul de Cordova, Cristopher Tibbets, Rebecca (Myers) Yoho, Design: Rebecca (Fuller) Jensen In the midst of Minneapolis’s Farmers’ Market, in an elaborately designed vendor tent, a series of tableaux vivants reveal several diners in formal dinner wear at a feast. Progressing from decorous to giddy to…
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