Skewed Visions

Screen

2013-03-11T16:45:44Z

Screen is Skewed Visions monthly private series of artist-curated film showings and discussions. Each month an artist chooses a film or two to stimulate the rest of us into conversation. Talking about art makes better artists and better audiences. That’s a good thing. (If you’re an artist, sign up here to find out about upcoming films and to get in on picking the films to see.)

NEXT:
April 12, 2013:
Ben Kreilkamp presents Tod Browning’s The Unknown

PREVIOUSLY:
March 8, 2013:
Tom Carlson presented A. Kukura, J. Philips, & A.M. Stein’s The Dhamma Brothers

January 11, 2013:
Charles Campbell presented Alain Resnais’s Last Year At Marienbad

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December 14, 2012:
Michael Sommers presented works of The Brothers Quay and Jan Svankmayer.

November 9, 2012:
Michael K presented René Clair’s A Nous La Libérté

October 12, 2012:
Dain Ingebretson presented Giorgos Lanthimos’s Dogtooth

September 14, 2012:
Scot Covey presented Jim Jarmusch’s Stranger Than Paradise

August 10, 2012:
Jane Powers and Michael Green presented Peter Greenaway’s Prospero’s Books

July 13, 2012:
Krista Kelley Walsh presented Menno Meyjes’s Max

May 2012:
Bill Sobolewski presented Jacques Becker’s Antoine et Antoinette

April 2012:
Charles Campbell presented Werner Herzog’s Fata Morgana and Kevin Obsatz and Elliott Durko Lynch’s Empire Builder

March 2012:
Jennifer Arave presented Yasujiro Ozu’s Good Morning

February 2012:
Scot Covey presented Fritz Lang’s Dr. Mabuse, the Gambler

January 2012:
Kevin Obsatz presented Michael Cimino’s The Deer Hunter

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December 2011:
Aaron Parker presented James Frawley’s Kid Blue

November 2011:
Megan Mayer presented Jodie Foster’s Home For The Holidays

October 2011:
Chris Holman presented Lindsay Anderson’s If….

September 2011:
Tara King presented Edmund Goulding’s Grand Hotel

August 2011:
Jennifer Arave presented Stephen Sayadian’s Café Flesh

July 2011:
Gülgün Kayim presented Sergei Parajanov’s The Color of Pomegranates

June 2011:
Charles Campbell presented Tom Tykwer’s Perfume: A Story of A Murderer

April 2011:
Charles Campbell presented Andrei Tarkovsky’s The Sacrifice

March 2011:
Krista Kelley Walsh presented Thomas Vinterberg’s Dear Wendy

February 2011:
Sean Kelley-Pegg presented Shane Carruth’s Primer

January 2011:
John Koch presented Hirukazu Koreeda’s Nobody Knows

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December 2010:
Bill Sobolewski presented Miguel Delgado’s Su Excelencia

November 2010:
Elliott Durko Lynch presented Jonathan Demme’s Stop Making Sense

October 2010:
Laurie Van Wieren presented Jean Vigo’s Zero for Conduct and selected films of Chantal Akerman

September 2010:
Susan McKinnell presented Akira Kurosawa’s High and Low and Juzo Itami’s Tampopo

August 2010:
Megan Mayer presented Peter Yates’ Breaking Away and Aram Avakian and Bert Stern’s Jazz On A Summer’s Day

July 2010:
Chris Holman presented Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger’s I Know Where I’m Going

June 2010:
Tom Carlson presented Federico Fellini’s The Clowns

May 2010:
Scot Covey and Km Betz presented Mervyn LeRoy’s Gold Diggers of 1933

April 2010:
Dain Ingebretsen presented Martin Scorsese’s Alice Doesn’t Live Here Anymore and episodes from the TV series Alice

March 2010:
Cherri Macht presented Linda Wertmüller’s Seven Beauties

February 2010:
Jennifer Arave presented Lars Von Trier’s The Five Obstructions

January 2010:
Krista Kelley Walsh presented Orson Welles’ F for Fake

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December 2009:
Jeremey Catterton presented Philp Ridley’s The Reflecting Skin

November 2009:
Kevin Obsatz presented Alfonso Cuarón’s Children of Men and Aleksandr Sokurov’s Russian Ark

October 2009:
Charles Campbell presented Bela Tarr’s Werckmeister Harmonies

September 2009:
Charles Campbell presented Stanley Kubrick’s Dr. Strangelove: Or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb and 2001: A Space Odyssey

July 2009:
Charles Campbell presented Jean-Pierre Melville’s Army of Shadows

January 2009:
Charles Campbell presented Jean-Luc Godard’s Notre Musique

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December 2008:
Charles Campbell presented Werner Herzog’s Woyzeck

Book Talk

2013-02-06T20:58:49Z

Book Talk is Skewed Visions series of discussion on readings relevant to contemporary arts practice as suggested by participants. Sign up here.

NEXT:
April 15, 2013:
Artists: Broc Blegen, Emily Gastineau, Samantha Johns, Billy Mullaney
Reading: Mårten Spångberg’s Spangbergianism

September 16, 2013:
Artist: Emily Gastineau
Reading: Claire Bishop’s Artificial Hells

Email skewed at skewedvisions dot org with suggestions.

PREVIOUSLY:
June 19, 2012:
Artist: Bryan Bevell
Reading: Raj Patel’s The Value of Nothing (2009)

February 27, 2011:
Artist: Charles Campbell
Reading: Nicolas Bourriaud’s Relational Aesthetics (2002)

October 17, 2010:
Artist: Charles Campbell
Reading: Hans Thies-Lehmann’s Postdramatic Theater (1999)

2013-02-06T20:48:27Z

How Dare You! is Skewed Visions monthly series of post-show discussions where we meet to discuss work we see around town. We meet off-site to ensure free-flowing, open and wide-ranging conversations. Talking about art makes better artists and better audiences. That’s a good thing. Sign up here.

NEXT:
This Clement World at the Walker Art Center (Cynthia Hopkins)

PREVIOUSLY:
February 2, 2012:
Ganesh Versus the Third Reich at Walker Art Center’s Out There series (Back to Back Theatre)

January 26, 2012:
(M)imosa/Twenty Looks or Paris Is Burning at the Judson Church at Walker Art Center (Trajal Harrell, Cecilia Bengolea, François Chaignaud, and Marlene Monteiro Freitas)

January 19, 2012:
King Lear at Walker Art Center (She She Pop)

January 12, 2012:
The Method Gun at Walker Art Center (Rude Mechs)

November 17, 2012:
Old Times at Loring Alley Theater (Nightpath Theatre)

October 28, 2012:
Meronomy at the Red Eye Theater (Steve Busa)

September 30, 2012:
Waiting for Godot at The Jungle Theater (Bain Boehlke)

June 30, 2012:
SNOWFUCK at Monster Halloween (Samantha Johns and George McConnell)

May 20, 2012:
Vasa Lisa at Minnesota Opera Center (Ten Thousand Things)

April 2012:
Werther and Lotte: the Passion and the Sorrow at the Lab (The MovingCompany)

March 2012:
Picnic On the Battlefield at the Southern Theater (Theatre Novi Most)

February 2012:
Pleasure Rebel at the Bryant-Lake Bowl (Nastalie Wreck)

January 2012:
Out There series at the Walker Art Center (Young Jean Lee, Rabih Mroué, chelfitsch, and Mariano Pensotti)
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January 2011:
Out There series at the Walker Art Center (Betontanc/Umka.lv, Gob Squad, Berlin, and Philippe Quesne/Vivarium Studio)
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three principles

2012-12-03T22:48:46Z

new workshops from Skewed Visions

A Practical Guide to Skewing
Beginning September 15, 2012
Good news:
If you’ve ever wondered how we make this work, or wanted to develop your own practice exploring some of these ideas, now is your chance. Register and pay for Workshop through Brown Paper Tickets.

Welcome to an ongoing series of workshops designed to activate creative thinking by focusing on three principles fundamental to Skewed Visions work: Space, Object, and Encounter. Not lessons in a technique or style, this is a series of experimental investigations of principles fundamental to our 15-year history of creating and performing original site-specific works. Taught by Skewed Visions founders, each workshop offers practical tools we use to create site-based, interdisciplinary works and offers other ways of thinking about the world, artistic work, and their intersection.

Space:
Taught by founder Gülgün Kayim, these workshops offer tools to explore the attributes of a site and ways to develop performance work from them. The Space workshop is two two-hour sessions, $60.
First Space workshop September 15 and 29, 9:30am – 11:30am.

Object:
Taught by founder Charles Campbell, these workshops offer a practice and a perspective for creating new work using the relationship of performer and object. This workshop will be offered monthly to develop the practice. One two-hour session, $35 ($60 for both).
First Object workshop October 6, 10am – noon.
Second Object workshop November 3, 10am – noon.

Encounter:
Taught by founder Sean Kelley-Pegg, these workshops offer ways to make use of the audience/performer relations using both technology and placement. One two-hour session, $35.
First Encounter workshop October 20, 10am – noon.

Each workshop session fee is $35, discounts for attending multiple workshops apply. Full payment of each class fee is due at the beginning of each workshop. We also accept cash, check payable to Skewed Visions or major credit cards at the door, but we cannot reserve your spot in the workshop until payment is received.

Black Water

2013-01-12T16:47:08Z

Created by Charles Campbell, May 2012

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 Lynch
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 corridor as a sensory exploration of the displacement and disconnection that make things such as drone warfare and the military contractor debacles possible. Inspired in part by W.G. Sebald’s novel, Austerlitz, this work was a comically visceral look at the intersection of remote violence and forgotten history. Black Water is the final leg of a journey that began with Strange Love (2007) and He Woke Up In A Strange Place Called Home And Although Looking For Bed He Kept Finding Death Instead (2009).

Cubicle2

2012-07-24T20:08:19Z

Cubicle2 is the second in Skewed Visions’ innovative series of podcasts. Exploring the intersection of identity and the internet, this season invites artists to explore site-based work with the internet as a virtual site. Click on an artist’s name below to be taken to their episode page.

Please support these artists by making a secure donation at GiveMN.org by clicking the green Donate now button at the bottom of the page. Thank you.

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CUBICLE2
Season Two Artists:
Avye Alexandres
Jaime Carrera & Tyler Jensen
Elliott Durko Lynch
Noah Keesecker
Sean Kelley-Pegg
Ben McGinley
Kevin Obsatz
Garrett Tiedemann
Angela Regas
Craig VanDerSchaegen

Overture, New Material; Live Feed DVD

2011-12-21T16:20:31Z

Created by Elliott Durko Lynch in direct collaboration with Justin Jones, 2009, 2010, and 2011.

“Overture, New Material; Live Feed DVD” was originally created and presented for “Why Won’t You Let Me Be Great”, an event held July 30 – August 1, 2009, at Performance Space 122 in New York City presented by Catch Series in collaboration with Neal Medlyn and Brendan Kennedy: “a downtown spin on Kanye West’s album 808s and Heartbreak.”

Read Nytimes here, MTV review here, and Time Out here.

Please watch the video for a brief explanation.
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Elliott Durko Lynch is a Minneapolis Minnesota based performance maker, theater technician at the Bryant Lake Bowl Theater, and sound and media artist active in the Twin Cities Area since 2005. His performances / Public Service Announcements have been most recently seen in 2008, at CATCH 38 in New York, and at the Soap Factory in Minneapolis. As a performer, he most recently performed in Megan Mayers’ “we tried to throw the light,’ at the Southern Theater 2010, and sang a song in Morgan Thorson’s national 2009/2010 touring contemporary dance work ‘Heaven.’ Elliott has worked extensively on new visual-art performance co-creations with Justin Jones; “RadioBrain” presented at the Southern Theater in 2009, and has created electronic music and sound designs for a diverse range of live performance, theater, and contemporary dance including Skewed Visions’ “Strange Love,” “He Woke Up…”, and “Jasper Johns: Grey,” Chris Schlicting’s “love/things”, Interact Theater Company, and Jo Furnans.

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2/3 of The Car presented at BGSU

2011-12-21T16:27:00Z

Skewed Visions’ own Charles Campbell and Gülgün Kayim went to Bowling-Green State University in Ohio this September to teach a workshop in an interdisciplinary “Collaboration in the Arts” class, followed by a presenting of 2/3 of The Car. Itself a component of the performance triptych The City Itself, these two performances will offered the community a taste of what the Twin Cities already knows:

Skewed Visions is kinda cool.

Polygon

2011-12-21T16:20:17Z

Created by Kevin Obsatz.

Any virtual environment such as World of Warcraft or Second Life is conceived of and rendered by computer programs as an array of polygonal shapes that merge to represent the three-dimensional surfaces of the landscape. The more complex the environment, the smaller the polygons, and the more there are.

“Polygon” depicts a mundane experience in the real world – a simple walk around the non-quadrilateral block where the artist lives – as an infinitely fractal, organic experience… which is subsequently filtered through the intensely reductive algorithms of video compression for presentation online.

It is both a study in contrasts and an experiment, to see how much of the organic experience survives the translation.
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Kevin Obsatz is a film and video artist living in Minneapolis who works in a range of time-based media, including multi-source video installation and hand-processed black and white 16mm film. More of his work can be found at www.videohaiku.com

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Interface

2011-12-21T16:20:01Z

Created by Jaime Carrera and Tyler Jensen.

This film is not autobiographical. It does not judge nor condone. It is based on the real life collective experiences of various close friends. When it comes to the internet, there are very unique & specific circumstances that have become the exclusive property of homosexual men…for better or worse. This film is a humorous nod to those situations. It leaves the options open to interpretation and the decisions to those who live it.
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Jaime Carrera is a dishwasher at Chowgirls Killer Catering. He also dabbles in photography, music, film & performance. Jaime is in the midst of curating his first show Peligro at Patrick’s Cabaret. He lives in Powderhorn with his boyfriend Nick and his cats Henri & Roxie.

Tyler Jensen is a filmmaker out of NE Minneapolis. He lives with his boyfriend, Seth and their dog, Moose. He’s terrified of public spelling. He is currently at working making 30 Films in 30 Days.

You will need to decide for yourself where you are comfortable watching this episode.

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