1. Brian Routh was an English performance and sound artist.
18 Facts About Brian Routh
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Brian Routh was known for his performance work with Martin von Haselberg as one of The Kipper Kids who became notorious for their rowdy and rebellious performances in the art world; influencing the punk movement and the inspiration for such acts as the Blue Man Group, Karen Finley and Paul McCarthy.
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Brian Routh produced sound art which consists of video performance and sound works that have been featured in museums, galleries, and on radio and television.
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Brian Routh's great-grandfather James Diston was a bare-knuckle prize fighter who ran a circus.
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Brian Routh attended the Bifron's Secondary Modern School in Barking, Essex, graduating in 1963.
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Brian Routh learned to play the piano, harmonium, organ, and later the drums.
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Brian Routh played in a rock group as a drummer in the early 1960s and later performed as a singer and guitarist.
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Brian Routh attended the East 15 Acting School in Loughton, Essex, where he met von Haselberg, a fellow student.
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Brian Routh was married to new media artist Nina Sobell from 1975 to 1981.
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Brian Routh had taught in the United States at the San Francisco Art Institute in San Francisco, California, where he met Karen Finley.
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Since 2009, Brian Routh was partnered with digital artist Patricia Wells and they were married in 2012.
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Brian Routh started his career in 1971 as a performance artist.
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Von Haselberg and Brian Routh reunited in 1977 to appear as the Kipper Kids in a film by Richard Elfman called Forbidden Zone, which was released in 1982.
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In 1980, Brian Routh began to perform as a solo artist again in between Kipper Kids appearances.
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Brian Routh performed at Lincoln Center in New York City, as well as theatre festivals in Germany and Italy, and at Art Cologne, an art fair in Cologne, Germany.
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Brian Routh was involved in writing and starring in three projects for Cinemax and HBO, and he performed in several films alongside von Haselberg as The Kipper Kids.
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Brian Routh worked primarily within the sound art genre on a variety of pieces combining video, performance and sound in the form of diaries, rants and sound works.
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Brian Routh was involved in activism and uses notable speakers, sampling their speeches and re-editing them to music he designed for the piece.