Skewed Visions

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Skewed Visions is an arts company headquartered in Minneapolis, Minnesota which produces site-specific performances and other multimedia works. Formed in 1996, by the artists Charles Campbell, Gülgün Kayim and Sean Kelley-Pegg,Morstad, Marya; [http://www.mnartists.org/article.do?rid=101071 "Radio mnartists: Gulgun Kayim" (audio interview)]; MNartists.org website; April 20, 2006 the group produces site-specific works that have sometimes been seen as controversial.Ursu, Anne; [http://www.citypages.com/databank/19/924/article5781.asp "Naked Lunch"]; City Pages; Volume 19, Issue 924; August 19, 1998{{cite news|url=http://www.mplsobserver.com/node/898 |title=All The World's a Stage: Skewed Visions adapts three plays to the rooms of a historic building|work= Minneapolis Observer |date= April 6, 2006|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060521091246/http://www.mplsobserver.com/node/898|url-status=dead|archive-date=May 21, 2006|access-date=January 9, 2021}} The group may be best known for The Car, a 2000 performance that took place in cars driven by actors with the audience as passengers. Additionally, Skewed Visions has created original performances for a variety of sites including theaters,{{cite web|url=http://www.skewedvisions.org/projects/2004/index.php |title=Pipes |publisher=Skewed Visions |accessdate=December 2, 2011}} office buildings,{{cite web|url=http://www.skewedvisions.org/projects/2006/index.php |title=Days and Nights |publisher=Skewed Visions |date=May 14, 2006 |accessdate=December 2, 2011}} a rooftop observatory,{{cite web|url=http://www.skewedvisions.org/projects/2001/index.php |title=You Are Here |publisher=Skewed Visions |accessdate=December 2, 2011}} a former marble factory,{{cite web|url=http://www.skewedvisions.org/projects/1998/index.php |title=Untitled No. 1 |publisher=Skewed Visions |accessdate=December 2, 2011}} a house,{{cite web|url=http://www.skewedvisions.org/projects/2004/index.php |title=The House |publisher=Skewed Visions |accessdate=December 2, 2011}} a storefront window,{{cite web|url=http://www.skewedvisions.org/projects/1997/index.php |title=Urban Sirens |publisher=Skewed Visions |accessdate=December 2, 2011}} a former bombsite factory,{{cite web|url=http://www.skewedvisions.org/projects/2003/index.php |title=The Orange Grove |publisher=Skewed Visions |accessdate=December 2, 2011}} a pedestrian shopping mall,{{cite web|url=http://www.skewedvisions.org/projects/1999/index.php |title=The Bicycle |publisher=Skewed Visions |accessdate=December 2, 2011}} and a farmer's market.{{cite web|url=http://www.skewedvisions.org/projects/1998/index.php |title=Breakfast of Champions |publisher=Skewed Visions |accessdate=December 2, 2011}}

The company received project grants from the Jerome Foundation, most recently in 2005,[http://www.jeromefdn.org/IV~Grant_Programs/H~Grants_Awarded/mm~Theater_Grants.aspx "Theater Grants"]; Jerome Foundation website and has also received grants from the Minnesota Metropolitan Regional Arts Council,{{cite web|url=http://www.mrac.org/news/Awards.html#AAS07-2 |title=MRAC recent grant awards |publisher=Mrac.org |accessdate=December 2, 2011}} The Minnesota State Arts Board,{{cite web|url=http://www.arts.state.mn.us/grants/2008/08_am_master.htm |title=American Masterpieces |publisher=Arts.state.mn.us |date=March 19, 2010 |accessdate=December 2, 2011}} and the McKnight Foundation.[http://www.mcknight.org/grantsprograms/grantee_results.aspx?date_approved=&org_name=&org_city=&desc_keyword=&prog_area_1=Arts&page=10 "Arts Grantees"]; McKnight Foundation website In October 2006, Skewed Visions appeared alongside Meredith Monk and Stephan Koplowitz as keynote speakers for the first Site-Specific Performance Symposium at the Martin E. Segal Theatre Center of the Graduate Center of CUNY.CUNY 2006 Site-Specific Symposium: http://web.gc.cuny.edu/Mestc/programs/fall06/site-specific_performance.htm#sitespecificthursday The company's production of Jasper Johns was made with the support of the National Endowment for the Arts's American Masterpieces initiative.

The company's work has also been the subject of articles in academic journals, frequently focusing on "expanding notions of theater and performance."Company mission: http://www.skewedvisions.org/company/index.php These include New Theatre Quarterly,{{cite journal |last1=Magelssen |first1=Scott |title=Accumulation, Loss, and Deferral: Charles Campbell and Steve Epley's Site-Specific Performance 'You Are Here' |journal=New Theatre Quarterly |date=2004 |volume=20 |issue=2 |pages=180–191 |doi=10.1017/S0266464X04000077}} TDR,{{cite journal |last1=Jakovljevic |first1=Branislav |title=The Space Specific Theatre: Skewed Visions' The City Itself |journal=TDR: The Drama Review |date=2005 |volume=49 |issue=3 |pages=96–106 |doi=10.1162/1054204054742453}} and Frakcija.{{cite journal|title=The Walls That Howled: On The Limits of Discursivity in Skewed Visions' Site-Specific Performance Days and Nights |last1=Jakovljevic |first1=Branislav|journal=Frakcija|volume=41|date= 2007|url=https://archive.org/details/Frakcija_41/page/n91/mode/2up|pages=93–104}}