Skewed Visions

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Skewed Visions "The City Itself: The House" 2004
Skewed Visions "The City Itself: The House" 2004

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 has continually produced daring site-specific works that have generated critical praise and controversy.[2][3] The group gained notoriety in 2000 for The Car, a performance that took place in cars driven by actors with the audience as passengers. In addition to cars, 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 grants for theater work 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 Stephen 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]

Skewed Visions "Strange Love (performance)" 2007
Skewed Visions "Strange Love (performance)" 2007

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

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[edit] Company Members

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

[edit] Awards

2004 Artists of the Year[22]
2006 Days and Nights, Top Ten show[23]
2007 Strange Love (device/performance), Outstanding Experimental Theater Work[24]

[edit] 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)

[edit] External links

[edit] References

  1. ^ Morstad, Marya; "Radio mnartists: Gulgun Kayim" (audio interview); MNartists.org website; 20 April 2006
  2. ^ Ursu, Anne; "Naked Lunch"; City Pages; Volume 19, Issue 924; 19 August 1998
  3. ^ "All The World's a Stage: Skewed Visions adapts three plays to the rooms of a historic building"; Minneapolis Observer Quarterly; 6 April 2006
  4. ^ Pipes[1]
  5. ^ Days and Nights[2]
  6. ^ You Are Here[3]
  7. ^ Untitled #1[4]
  8. ^ The House[5]
  9. ^ Urban Sirens[6]
  10. ^ The Orange Grove[7]
  11. ^ The Bicycle[8]
  12. ^ Breakfast of Champions[9]
  13. ^ "Theater Grants"; Jerome Foundation website
  14. ^ "MRAC recent grant awards"
  15. ^ "American Masterpieces"
  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. ^ "Accumulation, Loss, and Deferral: Charles Campbell and Steve Epley's Site-Specific Performance ‘You Are Here’" New Theatre Quarterly (2004), 20: 180-191 Cambridge UP
  20. ^ "The Space Specific Theatre: Skewed Visions' The City Itself" TDR: The Drama Review, Volume 49, Number 3 (T 187), Fall 2005
  21. ^ "The Walls That Howled: On The Limits of Discursivity in Skewed Visions' Site-Specific Performance 'Days and Nights'" Frakcija, Volume 42 2007
  22. ^ Skinner, Quinton; "Artists of the Year: Skewed Visions"; City Pages; Volume 25, Issue 1256; 29 December 2004
  23. ^ Skinner, Quinton; "Curtain Call"; City Pages; Volume 27, Issue 1360; 27 December 2006
  24. ^ Royce, Graydon "These Were A Few of Our Favorite Things"; Minneapolis Star-Tribune; 29 December 2007