Bryan Campbell
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Bryan Campbell

Interview of the artist

Please find below the complete interview of the artist Bryan Campbell

 

Bryan Campbell is an American artist who lives and works in Paris. Since 2008, he produces a multidisciplinary work blending image, graphic design, text and choreography. His performances handle the codes of visual culture, getting attached to the bodies and perceptions they involve and from which they are born. His projects are ingeniously queer, adventurous in their concept and beautiful. After studying at the Tisch School of the Arts in the University of New York and at the Salzburg Experimental Academy of Dance (SEAD), Bryan Campbell creates several pieces in New York, especially a solo series, Seven Activities of the Historical Object, and the quartet Hares of the Mountain, an order of the festival La MaMa Moves!. As a dancer, he is involved in the projects of Christopher Williams, David Parker, Sydney Skybetter and Gus Solomons Jr, among others. In the 2009/2010 session, he integrates EX.E.R.CE, a training and research program directed by Mathilde Monnier at the National Choreographic Center of Montpellier. During this period, he starts a research around the cartoon Mon Petit Poney and from this he produces the conference/performance Research for the Quadruped Protagonist, as well as the play Quadruped Protagonist. The presentation of these plays have made the ponies travel to the Théâtre de la Cité Internationale (Paris), to Beursschouwburg (Brussels), to Judson Church (New York), to the GogolFest (Kiev), to the KUNSTKOMPLEX (Wuppertal) and to the festival La [Déca]danse (Vanves). Simultaneously, Bryan Campbell continues his work as a performer with choreographers, collaborating with Loïc Touzé, Jana Unmüssig and Emmanuelle Huynh, among others.

In 2011, he receives a research grant from the NRW Kultursekretariat (Wuppertal) to work around the works of the artist Dieter Roth. In 2013, he receives the DanceWEB grant. In 2015, BRyan Campbell creates Marvelous, the result of a 3-year research period around the dramaturgy of the printed matter. This project, both fashion and culture magazine and performance, is “published” in various spaces (theaters and galleries) and was presented at PACT Zollverein (Essen), Kaaistudios (Brussels), the Festival Artdanthé (Vanves), Actoral (Marseille), at the Latitudes Contemporaines (Lille) and at the Uzès festival. Right now, he is working at creating Square Dance, a quartet that questions the social relationships patterns, tapping into the “society” dance practice dynamics throughout the American square dance. He also works on Janitor of Lunacy: a Filibuster, a monologue of long duration inspired from a legislative obstruction practice of the American Senate, the filibuster. Bryan Campbell has been recently hired as a dancer for the projects of Olivia Grandville, Jocelyn Cottencin, Ambra Senatore, Perrine Maurin and Antonija Livingstone & Jennifer Lacey, and as assistant to the design of a project of Jacob Peter Kovner. Currently, he participates to the creations of DD Dorvillier and Gaëtan Rusquet, as well as to the recreations of the Inconsolés of Alain Buffardet and of Sorry, do the tour! of Marco Berrettini.

The Bryan Campbell projects are assisted by Météores for the production, development and broadcasting.

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