Our works
Days 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…
Read MoreUntitled #1 (1998)
Created by Gülgün Kayim, February 1998 Construction: Charles Campbell and Sean Kelley-Pegg Performers: Charles Campbell, Nathan Christopher, Camilla (Little) Hempleman, Blayne Lemke, Paul Mockovak, Jonathan Peterson, John Troyer, Rebecca (Myers) Yoho Untitled #1 was a performance installation using a collage of imagery, text and performances dealling with the experiences, emotions and terrors of war. The…
Read MoreThe Eye in the Door, part 1: Urban Sirens (1997)
Created by Sean Kelley-Pegg, with Charles Campbell, Gülgün Kayim, and Stas Retinger, May 1997 Performers: Charles Campbell, Gülgün Kayim, Alison Heimstead Environment: Stas Retinger Set in a storefront window in the Elliot park neighborhood of Minneapolis. Peeping in a window, the audience was witness to a seascape that featured a bandaged mermaid, a feast, and…
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