Bryan Campbell

Bryan Campbell is an American artist who lives and works in Paris. Since 2008, he has been developing a multidisciplinary body of work combining image, text, song and choreography. After studying at New York University's Tisch School of the Arts and at the CCN de Montpellier as part of Exerce, he created the projects Research for the quadruped protagonist (2011), MARVELOUS (2015), SQUARE DANCE (2019), Janitor of Lunacy: a Filibuster (2021), and Deep Cuts (2023). As a performer he has worked with Loïc Touzé, Antonija Livingstone & Jennifer Lacey, DD Dorvillier, Gaëtan Rusquet, Ruth Childs, and the dance for plants collective, among others. He will be translating Yvonne Rainer's Poems in collaboration with Vincent Weber, published in 2021 by 33 Morceaux, and will be publishing the text of Janitor of Lunacy: a Filibuster in a bilingual edition with Maison Trouble in 2024.

« I'd like to open a space for dance research around Dieter Roth's stupidograms, drawings executed spontaneously on a grid of dots, which often contradict the square nature of this background with zany scribbles. Here I see a tension that I often find in dance - the rigorous formality of technical training within the same body that cries, eats and breaks, and which can sometimes give us access to a wild joy. We'll be experimenting with dance scores, inventing songs and probably spending a few moments sitting in a circle losing ourselves in existential questions. All expertise and stupidity is welcome. » Bryan Campbell