- watch: 29th June 2020 at 7 pm UTC
- duration: 10 min
Since April 2019, I have been working on a performance How Can I Get My Partner to Be My Finger? – a conversation between a couple -one present, one technologically distant – my partner Alex and I. Alex ‘speaks through’ my finger via a tape-recording. Sometimes I ‘speak for’ Alex. The big question is: is it Alex speaking or is it me speaking? How can I get my partner to be my finger? Conversations have taken place in pitch-black often very small spaces where an audience watch as part of a billed performance in a gallery or theatre space or alternatively these conversations have taken place without an ‘assembled’ audience but outside, in public, in a non-traditional art/theatre setting, in ‘liminal spaces’ including shopping centres, on the London Underground, walking down Oxford Street, in the departure lounge of Gatwick Airport, in the queue at the supermarket.
BIO: Lee Campbell is an artist, experimental filmmaker, curator and lecturer at University of the Arts London. He completed a BA in Painting in 2000, a Masters in Painting in 2007 and received his doctorate PhD in 2016 and was part of the artist studio programme Conditions between 2018-2020. After finishing a Masters in Painting at University College London in 2007, his formal training in Painting took a new direction: film and performance art. 2009, his performance work was featured in a publication written by Bob and Roberta Smith called Hijack Reality: How to Guide to Organize a Really Top-Notch Art Festival. Between 2007-2011, he regularly performed as part of Testing Grounds. Key performances include Sounds Verbal 2005 and Whitstable Biennale 2008 and artist residencies at The Banff Centre, Canada 2012 and Spazju Kreattiv, Malta 2019. Between 2005-2008, he curated ALL FOR SHOW, an internationally touring film showreel of emerging and established British moving image artists whose work exposed the banalities of everyday life through humour, self-introspection and serious play. AELee Campbell is an artist, experimental filmmaker, curator and lecturer at University of the Arts London. He completed a BA in Painting in 2000, a Masters in Painting in 2007 and received his doctorate PhD in 2016 and was part of the artist studio programme Conditions between 2018-2020. After finishing a Masters in Painting at University College London in 2007, his formal training in Painting took a new direction: film and performance art. 2009, his performance work was featured in a publication written by Bob and Roberta Smith called Hijack Reality: How to Guide to Organize a Really Top-Notch Art Festival. Between 2007-2011, he regularly performed as part of Testing Grounds. Key performances include Sounds Verbal 2005 and Whitstable Biennale 2008 and artist residencies at The Banff Centre, Canada 2012 and Spazju Kreattiv, Malta 2019. Between 2005-2008, he curated ALL FOR SHOW, an internationally touring film showreel of emerging and established British moving image artists whose work exposed the banalities of everyday life through humour, self-introspection and serious play. ARTIST’S WEBSITE