Peter Campus

Peter Campus (born May 19, 1937 in New York City ) is an American video artist and photographer .

life and work

Campus was born and raised in New York City in 1937. His father, a doctor, was of Romanian-Jewish origin. His mother was originally from Ukraine and was of Jewish faith . She died when Peter Campus was seven years old. His older brother Michael Campus (1935–2015) later worked as a journalist and film director.

Campus studied experimental psychology at Ohio State University and received a bachelor's degree in 1960. After military service , Campus studied film engineering at City College of New York . As a production manager and editor, he worked in the film industry and produced until the late 1960s documentaries .

Campus was friends with Robert Smithson and Nancy Holt . Robert Grosvenor , Ian Wilson and Chuck Ross were a huge influence on him. Joan Jonas , Charles Ross ( Sunlight Dispersion (1971) with Campus), Steven Katz, Yvonne Rainer and many others from SoHo were among his circle. Bruce Nauman's video works were seen on campus.

From 1970 onwards he produced his own video tapes and from 1972 onwards video installations with black and white projectors and cameras . Campus works primarily with the moment of self-encounter, which it stages effectively, interactively and as a closed circuit , live. He uses reflections and distortions in the slide projections . Peter Campus interactive works include Kiva (1971), Interface (1972), Stasis (1973), Shadow Projection and Negative Crossing (1974), mem and dor (1975), Mask Projections , lus and num (1976) and aen (1977).

Campus's best-known short film is Three Transitions (1973). In the mid-1970s, Campus was one of the video artists who were allowed to produce their works in the non-commercial studios (WGBH in Boston) and (WNET in New York). Three Transitions was produced there.

Campus worked with Otto Piene and Aldo Tambellini at the Black Gate Theater in the East Village , where experimental films were shown. Films by Stan Brakhage , Robert Breer , Bruce Conner , Maya Deren , Ed Emshwiller , Mike Kuchar , George Kuchar and many others were shown there seven days a week .

In the 1970s and 80s, he took portraits with a Polaroid instant camera. Campus focused on photography with a large format camera from 1979 to 1995 .

In 1982 Campus taught at the Rhode Island School of Design and in 1983 he was appointed to a professorship at New York University . From 1992 to 1993 he had a teaching position at the State University for Design in Karlsruhe .

In 1995, Campus returned to video, producing Olivebridge and Mont Desert . In several works between 1990 and 2000, the moving images were presented on a large number of monitors . Examples are Winter Journal (1997), By Degrees (1998), Video Ergo Sum (1999) Death Threat (2000), Six Movies (2001) and Time's Friction (2004-2005). These works have personal things such as loss, memory, death, nature, landscape and transience as their theme.

Peter Campus is Clinical Professor for Art and Art Education and Artist in Residence at the Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development . He lives and works with his wife, artist Kathleen Graves, in Patchogue, Long Island .

Exhibitions (selection)

• 2009 Opticks British Film Institute , London
• 2005 Whitney Museum of American Art , New York
• 2003 Kunsthalle Bremen , Bremen
• 1990 Museum Abteiberg , Mönchengladbach
• 1979 New Berlin Art Association , Berlin
• 1978 Biennale di Venezia , Venice
• 1977 documenta 6 , Kassel
• 1974 Kölnischer Kunstverein , Cologne

Collections

Museum of Modern Art , Whitney Museum of American Art , Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York, Tate Gallery of Modern Art , Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía and Center Georges Pompidou

literature

• Peter Campus: video installations, photo installations, photos, video tapes Authors: Peter Campus, Wulf Herzogenrath , Roberta Smith , Greven and Bechtold, Cologne, 1997
• Peter Campus: Slide projections, Städtisches Museum Abteiberg, Mönchengladbach, 1990 ISBN 978-3-92403-9-042

Web links

• Peter Campus in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• The Brooklyn Rail, Robert Berlind-Peter Campus, Dredgers

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Bertelsmann Lexicon Volume 4, page 1639, 1994
2. ^ Catalog for documenta 6: Volume 2: Photography, film and video; Kassel, page 332, 1977 ISBN 3-920453-00-X
3. ↑ Tate In conversation-Peter Campus by Douglas Gordon , David A. Ross The expansive lens accessed on February 10, 2015 (English)
4. ↑ Art Observed, A. Berman AO interview-New York: Peter Campus “Now and then” at Bryce Wolkowitz Gallery , accessed on February 10, 2015 (English).
5. ↑ Art in America, Bill Viola Peter Campus, Image and Self ( Memento of the original from February 10, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. accessed on February 10, 2015 (English) 
6. ↑ Video Data Bank Peter Campus , accessed on February 10, 2015 (English).
7. ↑ Gregg Kowalsky Peter Campus: Video, Mirrors and TV accessed on February 10, 2015 (English)
8. ↑ Frieze, James Trainor Peter Campus , accessed on February 10, 2015 (English).
9. ↑ Bomb-Artists in Conversation Peter Campus by John Hanhardt accessed on February 10, 2015 (English)