Tim Etchells

Tim Etchells (born 1962 ) is an English playwright and performer, director, writer, and light artist.

Life and work

A wide audience he is best known for his work with the performance group Forced Entertainment, at its founding in 1984, he involved. This was one of the most influential theater projects in recent decades. With Forced Entertainment and he has designed and implemented dozens of performance projects, often. Well as a wide acting on the stage, which were well received by critics and audiences The work Etchells with Forced Entertainment have been presented at many major festivals and theaters worldwide. Many of the performances deal with the mechanisms of theater performance practice, with conventions and expectations of the audience during a visit to a theater event. Forced Entertainment had immense influence on the development of a genuinely British avant-garde style in the performance area, their works have become a canon of drama and performance schools.

Outside developed by Forced Entertainment Etchells its own forms of artistic expression: as a writer, in his collaboration with photographer Hugo Glendinning in photo projects, as neon and video artist, and through cooperation with performers worldwide ( eg, Franko B and Vlatka Horvat ). Etchells 2012 developed two light objects for the Mousonturm in Frankfurt am Main. On the outside front of the house he mounted in colored neon letters of the sentence the future will be confusing, in the foyer he scattered at a large inner wall this statement in the same letter to an anagram.

Tim Etchells lives in Sheffield, northern England and in New York.

Bibliography

  • Certain Fragments. Contemporary Performance and Forced Entertainment, London. Routledge, 1999 ISBN 0-415-173833 (theoretical and critical contributions to contemporary performance and theater events with introductory texts in the work of " Forced Entertainment " )
  • Endland Stories, 1999, ISBN 1901072126. ; German: Endland, Zurich / Berlin: 2008 ISBN 978-3-03734-043-1 diaphanes ( short stories and miniatures).
  • Void Spaces: . Hugo Glendinning, Tim Etchells, Forced Entertainment ( with Hugo Glendinning ), 2000 ISBN 1899926658
  • The Dream Dictionary for the Modern Dreamer, 2001. ISBN 071563108X
  • Adrian Heathfield (ed.): Small Acts: Performance, the Millennium and the Marking of Time (with contributions by Tim Etchells, Deborah Levy, Brian Eno and others), 2003 ISBN 1901033570.
  • Encounters ( along with Tom Common, Mike McCarthy and others), 2006. ISBN 1899926763
  • The Broken World, 2008 ISBN 0434018333 German: Broken World. Novel, translated by Astrid summer; Diaphanes Verlag, Zurich, Berlin 2010 ISBN 978-3-03-734099-8

Secondary literature

  • Judith Helmer, Florian Malzacher (ed.): Not Even A Game Anymore. Alexander Verlag, Berlin 2004, ISBN 3-89581-115-7.
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