Rod Dickinson

Dickinson initially trained as a painter. He first gained note in the 1990s for his work involving the creation of crop circles in the UK.{{cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/theobserver/2002/feb/10/features.review77|title=It's simply shocking|last=O'Hagan|first=Sean|date=10 February 2002|work=The Observer|accessdate=2009-03-19}} He made his first crop circle in 1991, when the interest in extraterrestrial visits was at its height, and has subsequently completed more than 500 of them.{{cite news|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/this-britain/cereal-entrepreneurs-552181.html|title=Cereal entrepreneur|date=6 July 2004|work=The Independent|accessdate=2009-03-19}} In 2004 he graduated from circles made with cereal crops and created an ambitious design made using sand, followed by a BBC film crew and a helicopter.

In 2002 he organised The Milgram Obedience Experiment in Glasgow, Scotland, involving reenactment by actors to explore Dickinson's fascination with belief systems and social systems. The Observer described the work as "too literal to be theatre, and too darkly strange to fit into the historical battles' re-enactment genre... his work comes closest to the dread realm of performance art."

• {{official website|http://www.roddickinson.net/}}
• [http://www.gmfilm.co.uk/greenwich.html Greenwich Degree Zero] (with Tom McCarthy)
• [http://www.milgramreenactment.org/ Milgram Experiment Recreation]
• [http://www.roddickinson.net/jonestown/ Jonestown Reenactment]
• [http://www.wacoreenactment.org/ Waco Audio Reenactment]

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Category:1965 births

Category:Living people

Category:British performance artists

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