Skewed Visions

Skewed Visions is an arts company headquartered in Minneapolis, Minnesota which produces site-specific performances and other multimedia works. Formed in 1996, by the artists Charles Campbell, Gülgün Kayim and Sean Kelley-Pegg,[1] the group produces site-specific works that have sometimes been seen as controversial.[2][3] The group may be best known for The Car, a 2000 performance that took place in cars driven by actors with the audience as passengers. Additionally, Skewed Visions has created original performances for a variety of sites including theaters,[4] office buildings,[5] a rooftop observatory,[6] a former marble factory,[7] a house,[8] a storefront window,[9] a former bombsite factory,[10] a pedestrian shopping mall,[11] and a farmer's market.[12]

The company received project grants from the Jerome Foundation, most recently in 2005,[13] and has also received grants from the Minnesota Metropolitan Regional Arts Council,[14] The Minnesota State Arts Board,[15] and the McKnight Foundation.[16] In October 2006, Skewed Visions appeared alongside Meredith Monk and Stephan Koplowitz as keynote speakers for the first Site-Specific Performance Symposium at the Martin E. Segal Theatre Center of the Graduate Center of CUNY.[17] The company's production of Jasper Johns was made with the support of the National Endowment for the Arts's American Masterpieces initiative.

The company's work has also been the subject of articles in academic journals, frequently focusing on "expanding notions of theater and performance."[18] These include New Theatre Quarterly,[19] TDR,[20] and Frakcija.[21]

Company Members

Charles Campbell -Co-Founder, Artistic/Managing Director
Gülgün Kayim -Co-Founder, Artistic Associate
Sean Kelley-Pegg -Co-Founder, Artistic Associate

Awards

1998 Untitled #1, Best of the Year, St. Paul Pioneer Press
2003 The Orange Grove, Outstanding Experimental Work, Star Tribune
2004 The House, Best Experimental Work, Star Tribune
2004 The City Itself, Best of the Year, City Pages
2004 Artists of the Year, City Pages[22]
2006 Days and Nights, Top Ten show, City Pages[23]
2007 Strange Love (device/performance), Outstanding Experimental Theater Work[24]
2012 Black Water, Best of 2011-2012[25]

Shows

1997: Camille
1997: The Eye in the Door, Part One: Urban Sirens
1998: Untitled #1
1998: The Eye in the Door, Part Two: Breakfast of Champions
1999: The Eye in the Door, Part Three: The Bicycle
2000: The City Itself, Part One: The Car
2001: You Are Here
2003: The Orange Grove (review 1; review 2)
2004: Pipes (review)
2004: The City Itself series: The Car, The Sidewalk and The House (review1; review 2)
2006: Days and Nights series: A Quiet Ambition, Time For Bed and The Hidden Room (review 1; review 2; review 3)
2007: Strange Love (Device/Performance) (review 1; review 2; review 3; review 4)
2008: Jasper Johns (review)
2009: He Woke Up In A Strange Place Called Home And Although Looking For Bed He Kept Finding Death Instead (review 1; review 2)
2012: Black Water (review)
2013: Invisible City (review)
2014: EX (review)
2016: EX(remade)
2016: Losing Kantor
2017: APPETITE

References

  1. ^ Morstad, Marya; "Radio mnartists: Gulgun Kayim" (audio interview); MNartists.org website; April 20, 2006
  2. ^ Ursu, Anne; "Naked Lunch"; City Pages; Volume 19, Issue 924; August 19, 1998
  3. ^ "All The World's a Stage: Skewed Visions adapts three plays to the rooms of a historic building". Minneapolis Observer. April 6, 2006. Archived from the original on May 21, 2006. Retrieved January 9, 2021.
  4. ^ "Pipes". Skewed Visions. Retrieved December 2, 2011.
  5. ^ "Days and Nights". Skewed Visions. May 14, 2006. Retrieved December 2, 2011.
  6. ^ "You Are Here". Skewed Visions. Retrieved December 2, 2011.
  7. ^ "Untitled No. 1". Skewed Visions. Retrieved December 2, 2011.
  8. ^ "The House". Skewed Visions. Retrieved December 2, 2011.
  9. ^ "Urban Sirens". Skewed Visions. Retrieved December 2, 2011.
  10. ^ "The Orange Grove". Skewed Visions. Retrieved December 2, 2011.
  11. ^ "The Bicycle". Skewed Visions. Retrieved December 2, 2011.
  12. ^ "Breakfast of Champions". Skewed Visions. Retrieved December 2, 2011.
  13. ^ "Theater Grants"; Jerome Foundation website
  14. ^ "MRAC recent grant awards". Mrac.org. Retrieved December 2, 2011.
  15. ^ "American Masterpieces". Arts.state.mn.us. March 19, 2010. Retrieved December 2, 2011.
  16. ^ "Arts Grantees"; McKnight Foundation website
  17. ^ CUNY 2006 Site-Specific Symposium: http://web.gc.cuny.edu/Mestc/programs/fall06/site-specific_performance.htm#sitespecificthursday
  18. ^ Company mission: http://www.skewedvisions.org/company/index.php
  19. ^ Magelssen, Scott (2004). "Accumulation, Loss, and Deferral: Charles Campbell and Steve Epley's Site-Specific Performance 'You Are Here'". New Theatre Quarterly. 20 (2): 180–191. doi:10.1017/S0266464X04000077.
  20. ^ Jakovljevic, Branislav (2005). "The Space Specific Theatre: Skewed Visions' The City Itself". TDR: The Drama Review. 49 (3): 96–106. doi:10.1162/1054204054742453.
  21. ^ Jakovljevic, Branislav (2007). "The Walls That Howled: On The Limits of Discursivity in Skewed Visions' Site-Specific Performance Days and Nights". Frakcija. 41: 93–104.
  22. ^ Skinner, Quinton; "Artists of the Year: Skewed Visions"; City Pages; Volume 25, Issue 1256; December 29, 2004
  23. ^ Skinner, Quinton; "Curtain Call"; City Pages; Volume 27, Issue 1360; December 27, 2006
  24. ^ Royce, Graydon "These Were A Few of Our Favorite Things"; Minneapolis Star-Tribune; December 29, 2007
  25. ^ Regan, Sheila [1]; Minnesota Playlist; October 4, 2012