WRITING



Scrapbooks, secrets and stories ... I’ve published a reflective account about poetry and film work about my teenage scrapbook in the latest issue of Body Space Technology journal. Read here: https://www.bstjournal.com/article/id/9882/

#digitalstorytelling #performanceart #performancepoetry #multimedia #technoparticipation

 Thank you @StepAwayMag for publishing one of my poems in Issue 35

 http://www.stepawaymagazine.com/

 #poetry #queerflaneur #flaneur #psychogeography #queerwriting 

 


Thank you @Chri5rowell for including my research paper on digital pedagogy and disruption in latest issues of @ualspark 

https://sparkjournal.arts.ac.uk/index.php/spark/article/view/167

#digitalstorytelling #digitalpedagogy #criticalpedagogy #technparticipation #technoempathy #online #disruption orytelling #performancepoetry #spokenword #liveart #performanceart 

 

Thank you streetcake magazine for publishing 'Piss Off' (1999) in Issue 81 

https://www.streetcakemagazine.com/issue.html

#blackoutpoetry #visualpoetry #eraserpoetry #blackout





Great seeing my poem ‘Bears with Bananas and Bubbles in their Boxers’ published in @cityastheatre ‘Encounters’ Thank you @elistagram and @fi_ku! #queerwriting #poetry

 


'Covert Operations: Acts of Secrecy and Homosexual Identity' is a reflective account of three of my recent films I have just published in Edition 16 'Secrecy' of Hakara: A Bi-Lingual Journal of Creative Expression. 

https://www.hakara.in/lee-campbell/


 #videopoem #shortfilm #queerfilm #videopoetry #animation #multimedia #performancepoetry #videoart #poetryfilm #homosexuality #lgbt




SEE ME: Windows to the Self of the Performer-Autoethnographer' published in The Autoethnographer 

Thank you @theautoethnographer for publishing my reflective account of recent #poetryfilm and performance practice  I really enjoyed the process of working with you and thinking about what I do in relation to #autoethnography. Read here:

https://theautoethnographer.com/see-me-windows-to-the-self-of-the-performer-autoethnographer/

#videopoem #shortfilm #queerfilm #videopoetry #animation #multimedia #performancepoetry #videoart #poetryfilm #autoethnography 





Sharing The Digital Pedagogies Open Studio I co-set up@UAL@ResearchUAL @UAL_Acadsupport in prestigious Performance Research journal issue ‘On Interruptions’ #criticalpedagogy #education #digital #digitalpedagogy #technology #UAL #technoparticipation


LET RIP: RIPPING, REMIXING AND REINVENTING MATERIALS AND ME by Dr Lee Campbell, Artist and Senior Lecturer, University of the Arts London

Dr Lee Campbell shares his journey of using the ‘rip’ as a way of re-engaging with past work and past selves during the pandemic in MIA Journal Issue 4


Join the launch event with a special online ZOOM performance by Lee at 2pm BST on Saturday 9th April

Moving Image Artists (MIA) is an organisation dedicated to supporting and cultivating contemporary moving image art and experimental film.

Extract

What may it mean to remediate, excavate and bring back to life a personal archive of paintings and drawings and mobile phone recordings made over the span of 25 years through the medium of moving image?

Beginning a perpetual process of making and remaking, constantly recycling myself, constantly requoting myself to create a density, beginning in late 2019 and then again at the start of lockdown March 2020 I made several short films which reused/recycled bodies of my past artwork. These films used the rip as both metaphor, symbol and structure to build upon existing work, create new forms out of ‘old’ practice and indeed show new versions of ‘old’ me. Collage became a major tool in this recent film practice, reinvigorating paintings and drawings that I produced nearly twenty years ago which are juxtaposed throughout my films with current photographic and performance for camera work. Things insist, in a spiral, nothing’s wasted. In this exciting new phase of my practice, I used all my capacities, from theatre to drawing, to painting, to language, to the comic, to the affective, to the relational, to painting and performance and film. Excavating (fine art) work I made long ago and resuscitating it, I brought these back to life through the medium of film.1 Integrating my fine artwork into my film work, my films created an arresting palimpsest effect by recycling pieces from previous bodies of work and placing them within my current context to see how their meanings may now differ from when they were first conceived.

Thank you Gobjaw for including two of my poems in your  anthology 2019-2022. A brilliant achievement for all your hard work supporting fellow creative wordsmiths

#spokenwordpoetry #spokenwordartist #poetrycommunity  #words #spokenword #poetry #performancepoetry #poet #poem




Honored to be featuring (again) in Issue 2 of POWDERS PRESS: WASTELAND with my poem ‘See Shells’ https://filmfreeway.com/SEESHELLS2022

#poetryfilm #shortfilm #videopoem #drawing #scrimshaw #spokenwordpoetry #spokenwordartist #poetrycommunity #poetryisnotdead #words #gaypoet #spokenword #poetry #performancepoetry #poet #poem #seaside


Lovely to have two poems 'HUNK IN TRUNKS' and 'SEE ME' included in this new journal for queer writing https://www.powderspress.com/issues



MY POEM 'DIRTY LOOKS' PUBLISHED IN GOB JAW POETRY PRESS ZINE 8





My poem SEEING/NOT SEEING has been published in Queerlings new queer literary magazine

 https://queerlings.com/leecampbell/







My artwork and writing is featured in the latest issue of HomoSurrealism magazine. View here https://view.joomag.com/-/0523549001607365782?short&fbclid=IwAR20X__rXxejs8e5tiJHpVPkD-Mj1AK0T9fIFD4p5xgbz2UU9Y3yN744QTs

#lgbt#homosurrealism #magazine #homosurrealismmagazine #queer #masculinity #homoerotics #gayartist #instagay #queerart #artistfilm #lgbt #shortfilm #storytelling #experimentalfilm #videoart #queercinema



It was an absolute pleasure to be able to launch my edited collection Leap into Action in the company of such a diverse range of thinkers and practitioners as part of a UAL The Exchange event at London College of Communication on December 16th 2019. 

Thank you Catherine Smith and Katherine Dwyer and all those involved within the Exchange who helped make the launch happen. It was wonderful to see so many of the collection’s contributors here today as well as seeing my friends, colleagues and members of my family. From a visit I made to Peter Lang in New York back in early 2017 to propose the volume to now, it’s been quite a journey. 

I was introduced by Julian McDougall, Prof of Media & Education, Centre for Excellence in Media Practice at Bournemouth. 




The contributors of Leap into Action then joined me and we performed sections of the volume. The audience were invite to read along with us, to read the text out aloud whenever they felt like starting and stopping.

'A lovely murmuring and chaotic presentation as Lee and his collaborators read from the text, deliberately asynchronous' The Exchange

'Contributors reading and performing the text.. where voice ebbs and flows in disconnected unison' Rachel Marsden 




With the other people sitting at their table, I then instructed audience members to hold a marker pen together, ready to draw onto the paper on their table. As I read passages from Leap, I instructed the audience to respond to certain things that caught their attention and draw together. This produced so much (uneasy) laughter. 






 LEAP INTO ACTION 
CRITICAL PERFORMATIVE PEDAGOGIES
 IN ART & DESIGN EDUCATION
Edited by Dr Lee Campbell
(University of the Arts London)
Publishers: Peter Lang USA





Contributors 

Gustave J. Weltsek, Mark Ingham, Glenn Loughran, Fred Meller, Gavin Baker, Peter Bond, Alex Schady, Adrian Rifkin and John Seth, Jo Addison and Natasha Kidd, Christabel Harley, Richie Manu, Simon Taylor, James Layton, Lucy Algar, Claire Makhlouf Carter, Laura Davidson, Mark Childs and Anna Childs, David Parkes, Pauline de Souza, Kevin J. Hunt and Fo Hamblin, Aaron D. Knochel, Adrian Lee, Jo Hassall, Neil Mulholland, Adam Cooke and Paul Jones, Cathy Gale, Paul Vivian, Gill Foster, Steve Fossey, Nic Chalmers and Sarah May, Nathan Geering

Abstract

This collection comprises of a package of two publications (monograph and companion). 

Leap into Action asks: ‘What happens when performative arts meet pedagogy?’ and views performative teaching as building students’ understanding of complex ideas and concepts ‘through action’. It provides the theoretical, philosophical and conceptual terrain by setting forth the scholarly rationale as to what performative pedagogy is at this moment across Art & Design education. Contributions are made from individuals and groups across art and design disciplines who deploy innovative pedagogic approaches with an emphasis on performativity.  To underline that Art & Design does not only happen within the institution, Leap into Action provides rich intertextual material demonstrating practical usage in and out of the classroom by bringing in and drawing upon the experiences of practitioners. 


As you journey through contributions gaining insight into pedagogic perspectives designed to help you (re)imagine the possibilities, it is intended that  Leap into Action will prompt new angles to look at your practice including and beyond pedagogy, mainly in terms of art, design and performance and in disciplines further afield. Whilst Leap into Action engages with performative pedagogies through disruptions, interruptions, tricksters, liminalities, affective bodies, sensory encounters, and technoparticipation, it calls into question what risk-taking means in an arts school context and the tension (even paradox) that exists between wanting to create a safe, welcoming and inclusive environment  and provoking students out of their comfort zones through experimental performative pedagogy and playfulness, getting students to critically engage. Whilst engagement with performative strategies may be a ‘risky’ strategy, the rewards can be great. Enter the unknown, take a leap into action and have fun.


The second publication in the Leap into Action volume on critical performative pedagogies extends the research and the argumentation addressed in the monograph and provides (further) practical insight into how one might apply performative pedagogy in class; how it [performative teaching and learning] looks day to day – working with both undergraduate and graduate level students. How can the would-be performative tutor engage in critical performative pedagogies through disruptions, interruptions, tricksters, liminalities, affective bodies, and sensory encounters?  This publication operates as an instruction manual that is textbook – oriented for instructors to use as a 'how to' guide on using performative pedagogies, on the sophisticated deployment of performative strategies in action, in practice. Each contribution follows an easy- to-follow presentation style that starts with a contextual introduction outlining a specific innovative pedagogic performative strategy. The strategy is then laid out as a set of instructions (think Fluxus for teachers), with self-reflective discussion to conclude. This echoes a three-stage learning process, Anticipation, Action and Analysis, a reflective model of practice for you to use and adapt to suit your own practice trajectories. 




PUBLICATION ONE: MONOGRAPH

The volume is structured into three distinct yet interrelated discussions. Each set of chapters proposes how performative pedagogies offer a means to challenge selected concerns facing Art & Design education and more broadly, similar concerns within teaching and learning in Higher Education today.


PART I RADICAL NOT-KNOWING: DISRUPTIONS, INTERVENTIONS, LIMINALITIES 

The first set of chapters proposes how the strategies of performative pedagogy correspond to the terms: ‘disruption’, ‘intervention’ and ‘liminality’ and considers how these apply  to teaching and learning as ‘risky’ pedagogic strategies / forms of creative expression that do not necessarily correspond with conventional criteria that lean towards focus, precision, clarity, coherence and structure. 

PART II 
PROXIMITIES AND ENCOUNTERS: BODIES, SENSES AND AFFECTS


The next set of chapters concentrates discussion on exploring further aspects of these terms but with focused emphasis on multisensory learning – using performative pedagogies to generate haptic, gustatory, olfactory and aural sensorial-immersive encounters in the classroom. These discussions collectively highlight and challenge a dominant approach in teaching and learning in the arts, the default reliance on the assumed primacy of the visual. Individual chapters advocate that learning can take place through our entire bodies; knowledge acquisition can be multisensory. 

PART III TECHNOPARTICIPATION: TRAVERSING PHYSICAL/DIGITAL THRESHOLDS


The final set of discussions explore aspects of the three terms focusing on the increasing importance of digital and virtual realities in students’ lives to advocate that never has there been a time in which the meanings of access are so broadened via technological mediation – with some chapters emphasising how access via technological mediation draws on all senses.

PUBLICATION TWO: COMPANION





The companion extends the research and the argumentation addressed in the monograph and gives readers (further) practical insight into how one might apply performative pedagogy in class; how it [performative teaching and learning] looks day to day – working with both undergraduate and graduate level students. Its narrative structure replicates the monograph in terms of thematic discussion but the nature of the chapters is written in an instruction-manual style. Providing consistency across chapters, the presentation style of each chapter follows: 1) a contextual introduction outlining a specific innovative pedagogic performative strategy; 2) the strategy laid out as a set of instructions – Fluxus for teachers; and 3) a reflective paragraph to conclude. This presentation style, as discussed in the introductory foreword, echoes a three-stage learning process that I devised during PhD study, Anticipation, Action and Analysis, a reflective model of practice, described as an ‘original, practical and imaginative way of demonstrating reflective practice’.

     
OTHER PUBLICATIONS 

Campbell, L., 2019. Deprivation Strategies: Increasing Public Understanding of Vision Impairment Using Performative Pedagogy. Body, Space & Technology, 18(1), pp. 126–144. DOI: https://doi.org/10.16995/bst.308

Campbell, L., and Jordan, M. 2018. ‘The Heckler’s Promise’, Performance Paradigm 14, Performance, Politics and Non-Participation. 
https://www.performanceparadigm.net/index.php/journal/article/view/216/0

Campbell, L. 2018. ‘Rupturing the contract: Performative pedagogy, power relations and interruption’, Spark: UAL Creative Teaching and Learning Journal  
https://sparkjournal.arts.ac.uk/index.php/spark/article/view/104

Campbell, L. 2017. ‘You Don’t Need Eyes to See, You Need Vision: Visual Impairment, Performative Pedagogy
and Technology’ Journal of Pedagogic Development. Volume 7 Issue 2 
https://journals.beds.ac.uk/ojs/index.php/jpd/article/view/397/594

Campbell, L. 2017. ‘Technoparticipation: The use of digital realia in arts education’, Spark: UAL Creative Teaching and Learning Journal, Vol 3 / Issue 1 (2017)
https://sparkjournal.arts.ac.uk/index.php/spark/article/view/74

Campbell, L. 2017. ‘Collaborators and Hecklers: Performative Pedagogy and Interruptive Processes’
in Scenario - Journal for Drama and Theatre in Foreign and Second Language Education. Volume XI, Issue 1/2017 http://publish.ucc.ie/journals/scenario/2017/01/Campbell/05/en#H1-3

Campbell, L. 2017. ‘Anticipation, Action and Analysis: A new methodology for Practice as Research’, PARtake: The Journal of Performance as Research, Volume 1, Issue 2, Summer 2017 (Participation in/and Research: Ethics, Methodologies, Expectations), Article 7. ISSN: 2472-0860
http://scholar.colorado.edu/partake/vol1/iss2/7/ 

Campbell, L. 2017. 'You Don't Need Eyes to See You Need Vision' In Sight, published by the Royal National
Institute of Blind People, April 2017  http://www.rnib.org.uk/insight-online/fine-art-adaptations-student-vision-impairment

Campbell, L. and McCall, C. and Lee, A.  (2017) ‘Sight (un)specific: performance as research predicated upon
deploying acts of visual negation’, Body, Space, Technology. ISSN: 1470-9120
http://people.brunel.ac.uk/bst/vol16/leecampbell/

Campbell, L. 2017. Technoparticipation: performance art, mobile phones and audio instructions. Vocal Eyes. Available at http://vocaleyes.co.uk/technoparticipation-performance-art-mobile-phones-

Campbell, L. 2016. ‘Cinematic Interruptions’, Viewfinder, British Universities Film and Video Council, November 
 2016 http://bufvc.ac.uk/articles/cinematic-interruptions

Campbell, Lee, 2014. Performance, participation and politeness’ using Performance Art as a tool to explore the liminal space between art and theatre and its capacity for confrontation’, in (eds) Remes, Outi. Leino, Mariko and MacCulloch, Laura, Performativity in the Gallery: Staging Interactive Encounters (Oxford: Peter Lang Ltd., 2014) ISBN 978303430966

Campbell, L. 2014. ‘Beyond Pollock: On visual art objects as non-traditional forms of performance document’, edited by Toni Sant, The International Journal of Performance Arts and Digital Media. Vol. 10, Iss. 1,2014
http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14794713.2014.912499

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