Tim Etchells
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Etchells in 2012
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| Born | 1962 |
| Nationality | British |
| Known for | Theatre, writing |
| Awards | The Legacy: Thinker In Residence Award, Bessie Dance and Performance Award for Outstanding Sound Design |
Tim Etchells (born 1962) is a British artist and writer based in Sheffield and London. Etchells is the artistic director of Forced Entertainment, a world-renowned experimental performance company founded in 1984. He has published several works of fiction, written extensively about contemporary performance and exhibited his visual art projects in various locations. Etchells is Professor of Performance at Lancaster University
Etchells is currently Professor of Performance at Lancaster University and has been teaching extensively in a variety of contexts. In 2006, he convened The Presence Project, a series of workshops at Stanford University.
Etchells' publication, Vacuum Days, based on his year-long web-based project which lasted throughout 2011, was published by Storythings in 2012. Etchells has published several works of fiction, Endland Stories, The Dream Dictionary for the Modern Dreamer and the novel The Broken World and has written extensively about contemporary performance in a wide variety of contexts, from articles in The Guardian newspaper to contributions in artist monographs, such as an MIT Press publication on the work of Tehching Hsieh and a Live Art Development Agency publication on Ron Athey.
In 2013 he was guest curator of Ljubljana's Exodos Festival – selecting an international programme of work in performance, theatre and dance. On 25 November 2013, Etchells gave a public keynote address Live Forever, at Tate Modern in the frame of their research series 'Collecting the Performative' A new public sculpture work by Etchells, 'A Stitch in Time' was commissioned for the Lumiere Festival, Londonderry, and installed on top of the old Rosemount Shirt Factory. The work comprises a 23 metre long and 2 metre high sign made with white LED bulbs.
In 2014 Etchells was invited to be part of Lisbon biennial Artist in the City program.
Etchells regularly collaborates with many artists, including photographer Hugo Glendinning, with whom he has worked on several projects, such as the 1999 exhibition Void Spaces and the ongoing series Empty Stages, which has been exhibited widely, including as part of Etchells' solo show at Jakopic Gallery in Ljubljana in 2013.
Other collaborations include writing essays for performance artist Franko B's Still Lives publication, for the visual art duo Elmgreen and Dragset's project Drama Queens and working with the pair on their later project Happy Days in the Art World. The Art in America article on Happy Days in the Art World says, "Etchells is an experimental British playwright of some fame whose work is Beckettian, not Beckett-esque. His work is mocking and meandering but can really get under the skin, and prick at latent feelings of abjection, loneliness, the inability to communicate, futility."
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