Dangling By Their Mouths:
The collected works of Colin Campbell
At last the maestro of Canadian bad wigs and video art is available in
a deluxe ten-DVD box set, featuring thirty full-length tapes. Meticulously
restored and remastered, this set offers up originary moments, his classic
six pack of Woman From Malibu tapes, and his mid-career dramatics, along
with a closing quartet of works which saw him reprise many of his early
creaturely creations. All of his star turns take a bow in this set,
including Mildred the ray-banned widow, worldly Anna, the innocent-turned-electro-pop-star
Robin, the gossip maven Colleeta-Sackville West, and the androgynous
performance artist Colleena. Filled with a wry humour and a stylish,
cross-dressing flair, he turned to luminary artist friends and starlets
like Tanya Mars, Johanna Householder, John Greyson, Lisa Steele and
George Hawken to add heat to his video love songs. His deadpan wit and
keen eye for framing has kept these in-camera sessions fresh well beyond
the Bienales and retrospectives which has had heads turning for the
past four decades.
Why wait a moment longer? Buy a set for a friend, a lost love, a new hopeful. You can drop by and pick one up, or else give us a ring and we’ll send one out to you.
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People Like Us: The Gossip of Colin Campbell
Jon Davies & John Greyson
In a career beginning in the 1970s, Colin Campbell (1942-2001) was at the
forefront of artists' video and, for thirty years, continued to invent a
unique and personal form and content for the medium. Campbell responded
early to video's invitation to performance and to its ease with sharing
secrets. This retrospective exhibition considers the manner in which the
artist cultivated a myth around himself and his personae through trafficking
in stories, rumours and fables as culled from the goings-on of his everyday
life. In blurring truth and lies, real life and artifice, Campbell's video
works suggest links between storytelling, self-construction and star power.
Colin Campbell represented Canada at the Venice Biennale in 1980 and at
biennial exhibitions in São Paulo in 1977 and Istanbul in 1992. Published
on the occasion of a symposium dedicated to the legacy of Colin Campbell.
Luminous Bodies At Nightfall: Gender and Performance is sponsored by the
University of Toronto (January 2009).
Oakville Galleries (12/2008) 64 pp col. ill. 11 x 7.5 in softcover 978-1-894707-28-2 $25.00 Can. ($27.95 U.S./20 euros)
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