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Skewed Visions is an arts company headquartered in Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA, which produces site-specific performances and other multimedia works. Formed in 1996 by the artists Charles Campbell, Gülgün Kayim and Sean Kelley-Pegg.
The group produces site-specific works that have sometimes been seen as controversial. 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.
Skewed Visions has created original performances for a variety of sites including theatres, office buildings, a rooftop observatory, a former marble factory, a house, a storefront window, a former bomb-site factory, a pedestrian shopping mall, and a farmer's market.
The company received project grants from the Jerome Foundation, most recently in 2005 and had also received grants from the Minnesota Metropolitan Regional Arts Council, The Minnesota State Arts Board, and the McKnight Foundation.
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.
The company's work has also been the subject of articles in academic journals, frequently focusing on "expanding notions of theatre and performance."These include New Theatre Quarterly, TDR, and Frakcija.
‘ The theatre is neither a set of facilities nor a building. It is the ideology of a place where dramatic encounters are created. Any place can become a theatrical space. At the same time, if no drama develops there, a theatre may simply become part of the landscape of daily life. Those of us who consider ourselves dramatists take it as crucial to be able to organise our imaginations in such a way as to change any location into a theatre to reflect upon theatre is to reflect upon the city. ‘
–SHUJI TERAYAMA “Manifesto” The Drama Review, December 1975
Skewed Visions fosters rigorous, innovative, thoughtful artistic practice to open possibilities for questioning the way things are. They believe that any place can become a theatrical space. Their mission is to impact the “landscape of daily life.”
Skewed Visions is also dedicated to expanding notions of performance through interdisciplinary collaboration as well as actor and audience education and development.
THE TEAM
Charles Campbell, Co-Founder, Co-Artistic/Managing Director
Gülgün Kayim,
Sean Kelley-Pegg
skewed@skewedvisions.org
Here are few videos reflect some of their work.