PRESS, INTERVIEWS AND REVIEWS

  

Hamish Downie's Five Questions With Lee Campbell #3 

@hamishdowniewriter @ilovegaytoday @twogaygeeks

 #TGGFiveQuestions

An interview where I talk about 'Homo Humour' 

https://tggeeks.com/blog/2023/01/27/hamish-downies-five-questions-with-lee-campbell-3/






This is the year of poetry and according to the Islington Tribune, I’m a notable! https://www.islingtontribune.co.uk/article/forget-comedy-try-poetry #poetry #poetrylondon #performancepoetry #spokenword 

 



Thanks for interviewing me again Hamish Downie for Two Gay Geeks 

about my solo exhibition on now at Fountain Street, Boston, USA 


Read the full interview at 

·Hamish Downie's News Sushi #126: Morsels of News From Japan and Beyond 

https://tggeeks.com/blog/2022/07/29/hamish-downies-news-sushi-126-morsels-of-news-from-japan-and-beyond-2/   



REVIEW OF 'PEER' LIVE ZOOM POETRY PERFORMANCE BY LOUISE PENN FOR LOUREVIEWS

‘An intriguing piece of performance art: neither theatre nor film, it tries to find something a little different to play with’  Louise Penn, LouReviews 

Read full review here 

https://loureviews.blog/2022/07/18/review-peer-by-lee-campbell-online-zoom/

Thank you so much Loureviews - a place of reflection and review for your brilliant review of my new digital poetry performance piece 'Peer' which got its world premiere last night Festival ECRà


A beautiful interview just out between me and fellow poet filmmaker Jane Glennie in celebration of my forthcoming solo  exhibition later this month in America at Fountain Street plus how I have combined poetry,film,visual art and performance to create a Zoom poetry spectacular multiple times since 2020.

 Read here 



Thank you @Aspasiapal for your review of my recent headline poetry performance, where '#autoethnography, identity and art came together'. Thanks to Philippa McDonald for inviting me. You can see my headline set again here:

https://youtu.be/3H0M0wvrGfk 

#digitalstorytelling #spokenwordpoetry #spokenword #poetry #queerwriting #performancepoetry

INTERVIEW WITH JOE O'BRIEN FOR UAL STORIES TO MARK PRIDE 2022

Great interview 'Humour as a vessel for communication' marking #PrideMonth #Pride2022 between me and Joe O'Brien @unioftheartslondon stories page sharing my @brightonfringe and @otherwisemagz poetry performance and curatorial project Homo Humour @eui.queer.feminist.wg @frise_kuenstlerhaus@openeyegallery Nods to the work of @johnwalterstudio @sarezale @wrikmead@spreinke #queerfilm #queerfilmmaker#queercinema #indiefilm #poetry #poetryfilm#videoart #movingimage #shortfilm#videopoem #queerwrititng#performancepoetry #pridemonth




Here's me speaking with Kathy Caton on her Out with Kathy Caton show about my @brightonfringe solo performance next Sunday for BBC Radio Sussex and Surrey #liveart #performanceart#BrightonFringe #bbc #spokenwordpoetry #spokenword #poetry#performancepoetry #poet #poem #queerwriting#queerfilmmaker #queercinema #brightonfringe22 #literature#brightonfringe


Me and Lisa Hawkins, curator of my exhibition 'Bona Polari!' at The Margate School chatted to Dominic King on BBC Radio Kent's The Dominic King Show about my exhibition Bona Polari!
 


 Here is an interview I did about my exhibition for KMTV (regional Kent TV Station) https://www.kentonline.co.uk/kmtv/
 



Thank you @danhess90 Daniel Hess for interviewing me about my film ‘Camp-Belle as spotlight feature on his @totonyproductions site based in Baltimore, USA. You can read the interview here: 
#autoethnography #queerfilmmaker #queercinema #indiefilm  #queerwriting #humour #poetryfilm #artistsfilm #videoart #movingimage #shortfilm #poetryvideo #videopoetry #poetry

 



Thank you Daniel Hess for interviewing me about my film 'See Me' as spotlight feature on his To Tony Productions site based in Baltimore, USA. You can read the interview here: 

https://totonyproductions.com/blog/2022/01/10/see-me/



I won Best Poem of the night and featured act slot! 

A wonderful evening last night at Paper Tiger Poetry some great acts including Tom McColl, Polly Bull, Rodney Wood,  Cheryl Maclennan, Jane Teal. Thank you everyone for your comments about my performance and excited to be one of next month's featured acts. Great review below - thank you Jason Why MC












I am absolutely chuffed with Greg Freeman's review of Write Out Loud's Spoken Sessions last week and particularly his words of praise about my 'experimental and innovative visuals' -it's all about the glitch with me! Full review here: https://www.writeoutloud.net/public/blogentry.php?blogentryid=114996&fbclid=IwAR3msFkA_440RpW2BEEszzLZ4vNwAMmNBVw2cinqvCG9ZsdON8_tIYgCQUg

#performancepoetry#creativewriting #spokenword


 







On Tuesday 18th May, I was interviewed as part of @spherefestival (see above preview). Watch again in full  at youtube.com/spherefestival 




A great review  of my book volume Leap into Action: Critical Performative Pedagogies in Art and Design Education (2020) by Julia Lockheart, Journal of Writing in Creative Practice, Volume 14,  
Number 1, 1 January 2021 https://www.ingentaconnect.com/contentone/intellect/jwcp/2021/00000014/00000001/art00008#


WATCH HERE;


Interviewed by Matt Skallerud/ Pink Media  @mattskal #ILoveGay Today -'Showcasing and bringing together some of the amazing #LGBTQ voices from all over the world'
@ilovegaytoday @pinkmedialgbt #interview 



Hamish Downie’s Five Questions With – Lee Campbell (March 2021) 








My film Mugged: Revenge Served Cold (2021) has been reviewed by Cut Frame Magazine for their March 2021 issue. 

WATCH FILM HERE

My film Mugged: Revenge Served Cold (2021) has been reviewed by James Clark of Lost Creatives. Here are some snippets of the review.
https://www.lost-project.com/loststories/mugged-revenge-served-cold-a-film-by-lee-campbell

WATCH FILM HERE
https://filmfreeway.com/MUGGEDIONLYHAVEEYESFORYOU202







Interview by Dominic King for BBC Radio Kent 

06/01/21 

#movingimage #film #videoart #artistfilm #filmfestival #storytelling #experimentalfilm #filmmaking #filmmaker #shortfilm  #interview #bbcradiokent #kent #margate #radiokent #bbc 








Wonderful to be invited by WESTMINSTER LGBT FORUM to speak briefly about my film SEE ME (2020) which documents a personal journey last Summer through London’s Soho revisiting gay bars and pubs that have been closed due to the pandemic. 

WATCH SEE ME here: https://filmfreeway.com/SEEME394

#shortfilm #artfilm #artistsfilm #newmedia #videoart #movingimage #lgbt # #filmfestival #storytelling #experimentalfilm




REVIEWS OF MY BOOK COLLECTION LEAP INTO ACTION PUBLISHED IN ART & PUBLIC SPHERE JOURNAL AND INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF EDUCATION THROUGH ART 



Two reviews have now been published:

1)
Art & the Public Sphere (Journal)
ISSN 2042793X , ONLINE ISSN 20427948
Volume (8): Issue (2)


Leap into Action: Critical Performative Pedagogies in Art and Design Education, Lee Campbell (ed.) (2020)
Authors: Joshua Y’Barbo
Page: 260-266
DOI: 10.1386/aps_00025_5

2) 
International Journal of Education Through Art

Volume 16 Number 3

© 2020 Intellect Ltd Book Review. English language. https://doi.org/10.1386/eta_00045_5

LEAP INTO ACTION: CRITICAL PERFORMATIVE PEDAGOGIES IN ART AND DESIGN EDUCATION, LEE CAMPBELL (2020) (ED.)

New York: Peter Lang, 290 pp.,
ISBN 978-1-43316-640-2, h/bk, £64.00

Reviewed by Richard Hudson-Miles, Loughborough University


Guest speaker for Tim Kirk’s ZERO Q: 20 QUESTIONS WITH INTERESTING PEOPLE FROM THE LGBT COMMUNITY



Recording of interview with by New York-based Tim Kirk forhis 90 minute podcast: Two Zero Q: 20 Questions With Interesting People from the LGBT community and friends.We spoke about my background, art career and Homo Humour Films 

INTERVIEW WITH SIMON CARTER, RESONANCE FM



Great being invited to be the guest speaker on Simon Carter’s weekly show on Resonance FM today. 

FULL INTERVIEW HERE: 


We chatted about my book collection Leap into Action (00:00-04:08) 
and two curatorial projects I am working on: Homo Humour (04:35-06:00) and Radical Ventriloquism (06:00-07:02) 
#radicalventriloquism
#leapintoaction #curatorialinterruptions #curating #londonart #exhibitions #arteducation

QUEERGURU FEATURE ON LATEST FILM
TRILOGY 'NO BODY SHAME'  



Read here: 
http://www.queerguru.com/experimental-filmmaker-lee-campbells-trilogy-of-gay-male-body-identity-no-body-shame/ 





FEATURE INTERVIEW IN INSPIRATIONAL 36 MAGAZINE 



Delighted that I have been interviewed for Inspirational magazine no. 36 - six-page full interview and many images of recent film/performance/collage works.




INSPIRATIONAL 36: now on sale!


Inspirational can be purchased for instant download from the following link: https://payhip.com/b/9UM2



Review by Corinne Felgate of LOST FOR WORDS (2011)

Lee Campbell's 'Lost for Words' brought the evening to a close, utilising performance as a means of closure in itself. The audience re-enters after a short interval to find Campbell and his co-performer exquisitely framed in the space with an expanse of wooden floor and white walls behind them. They sit opposite one another on chairs in the stock academic student-lecturer set up. 'Lost for Words' takes its structure directly from academic process, the discussion of an idea, the resulting power struggle, the making of the work and the evaluation of the process. In true Campbell style this conservative structure makes for anything but a conservative performance. Campbell and his student (Matthew) explore all the cringe-worthy power struggles that the roles of academia generate, but their delivery is like Educating Rita - on speed. Together the pair spin a soliloquy of cliché's, both beautiful and banal.Campbell is all too familiar with the world of art academia, as both a lecturer and PhD student. The performance is heavily psychoanalytical, and though I would pay good money to see Campbell hauled up with his PhD supervisor in a shrink's office, Lost for Words  a hearty slice of juicy voyeurism on that very scenario. In between the self-reflection and introspection of academia lies real Campbell gold. A few minutes in, he takes his audience on a rhythmic descent into a Dada boot camp. Before they know it audience members are circumnavigating the room with clear plastic cups pressed to their ears marching to Campbell's maniacal drum - all aboard space station Campbell.There are several picture perfect moments when the two performers bound into the room in a dyspraxic nightmare, fusing binary opposites and corresponding actions. Left and right are heard as one succinct sound as the two gesticulate in contradicting directions. Campbell plays the peasant and the philosopher, and in beautiful Schrodinger's cat moments plays god, allowing multiple truths to exist in the same moment.

Lost for Words is a performative articulation of Guy Debord's society of the spectacle. Reality is replaced by representation. Campbell seamlessly transfers theory into art, he creates visual articulations of tautologies, he teaches, and he teases. This piece has a library of theory behind it, but the real triumph of this work, continues to be Campbell's unharnessable and innate ability to direct his audience towards moments of cinematic perfection.

The audience find themselves 'connected' to a stranger up to 30 feet away with only a plastic cup and string as a means of communication and in this, the beautiful futility of human existence shines though; this is a magic moment.


Campbell is ultimately a painter who layers life. His pieces are portraits of humanity, where the good the bad and the ugly gel to make his audience nostalgic for now, where failure is celebrated and everyone exploited. Campbell is currently heavily focused on concepts of liminality, and this luminal state is exactly what he creates; neither a painting nor a performance, Lost for Words is a work on canvas that combusts the very second it is complete.


MENTION IN ARTMONTHLY OF WITH HUMOROUS INTENT (2012) 





                         

BBC Radio 4 Midweek interview with Libby Purves June 2008 



                                        






BBC South East News Feature (2008)




Lee Campbell on Radio New Zealand July 2004 speaking about Perseverance at the Physics Room,Christchurch, New Zealand













































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