Colin Campbell (video artist)

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Colin Campbell (born June 12, 1942 in Reston , Manitoba , † October 31, 2001 in Toronto ) was a Canadian video artist .

life and work

Colin Campbell was born in Reston in 1942 and studied at the nearby University of Manitoba . He graduated from there in 1966 . 1969 followed by a Masters at Claremont Graduate University , California . Since 1973 Campbell lived and worked in Canada again. Campbell has taught at Mount Allison University in Sackville Westmorland County , OCAD University in Toronto, and in the Department of Cultural Studies at the University of Toronto . Campbell has written two unpublished novels and shot about 50 videos. Well-known are True / False (1972), Skin (1992), The Woman from Malibu (1976), Robin , Coleena and Que Sera Sera (2001).

Campbell represented his country Canada at the 1982 Venice Biennale . Former partner John Greyson described Campbell in an obituary in 2002: “Toronto video artist, writer, teacher, gender terrorist. With impeccable style and atrocious wigs, he represented Canada at the 1982 Venice Biennale […] founded the Visual Studies Program at the University of Toronto and gave great dinner parties. "

Colin Campbell had the video artists Lisa Steele , John Greyson and later George Hawkens as partners. His close friends included the filmmakers Almerinda Travarssos, Margaret Moores, Tanya Mars , the performance artist Johanna Householder and Rodney Werden.

Seven years after his death at the turn of 2008/2009 in Oakville (Ontario) a retrospective with his video works was shown: People Like Us: The Gossip of Colin Campbell (German: "People like us: The rumors of Colin Campbell"), to the a catalog of the same name was published. The exhibition curator Jon Davies said:

“In Colin's work gossip is a force for bringing together and cohering a group of people into a social scene […] The play between truth and fiction is a fine line. When you're being told a really great story it often doesn't really matter if it's true or not. "

Describing the video work, Davies said, "Campbell constructed the identities of his various personalities and characters through the ones they talked about." Although Davies had never met him personally, he stated, "Campbell saw himself as bisexual and double-sex". A self-definition as bigender (a non-binary gender identity ) is not known; Both the exhibition catalog and press reports describe Campbell as a male artist who played with gender roles and sexual orientations .

Award

  • 1997: Bell Canada Lifetime Achievement in Video

literature

  • Exhibition catalog: Colin Campbell, Exhibition Guide. November 13, 2008 (English, French; PDF: 1.7 MB, 32 pages on jondavies.ca).

Exhibitions

posthumously:

  • 2008/2009: People like us: The Gossip of Colin Campbell. Oakville Galleries at Centennial Square, Oakville, Ontario , curated by Jon Davies.

Collections

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Biography: Colin Campbell, Video Artist. In: ColinCampbellVideoArtist.com. 1997, accessed April 2, 2020 (English; first published in Contemporary Canadian Artists 1997).
  2. ^ A b John Greyson : The Singing Dunes: Colin Campbell 1943-2001. ( January 15, 2012 memento on the Internet Archive ) In: ColinCampbellVideoArtist.com. 2002, accessed April 2, 2020.
  3. ↑ a b c Exhibition: People like us: The Gossip of Colin Campbell (6 December 2008 - 22 February 2009). In: OakvilleGalleries.com. December 2008, accessed April 2, 2020.
    Exhibition catalog: Colin Campbell, Exhibition Guide. November 13, 2008 (English, French; PDF: 1.7 MB, 32 pages on jondavies.ca).
  4. ↑ a b c Kathleen Mullen: A truly queer network: Video artist Colin Campbell & Toronto's fruitful art scene. In: DailyXtra.com. December 31, 2008, accessed April 2, 2020; Quotes from Jon Davies: "Campbell constructed the identities of his various personas and characters through who and what they talked about"; "Campbell saw himself as bisexual and bigendered".
  5. ^ Catalog for documenta 6, Volume 2: Photography, film and video. Dierichs, Kassel 1977, ISBN 3-920453-00-X , p. 331.
  6. ^ Obituary by Lori Spring, Lisa Steele: Colin Campbell 1942-2001. In: Toronto Now Magazine. November 15, 2001 (English).
personal data
SURNAME Campbell, Colin
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Canadian video artist
DATE OF BIRTH June 12, 1942
PLACE OF BIRTH Reston , Manitoba , Canada
DATE OF DEATH October 31, 2001
Place of death Toronto