1. Daniel Ernest Cockburn is a Canadian performance artist, film director and video artist.
17 Facts About Daniel Cockburn
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Daniel Cockburn has a rare literary talent which he serves up with visual elan, smart design sense and a playful philosophical project whose deeply lived roots is leavened throughout with humour.
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Daniel Cockburn released around three to six videos a year between 2000 and 2004.
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In 2003, Cameron Bailey declared Daniel Cockburn was "Toronto's best new video artist".
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Daniel Cockburn won more prizes for WEAKEND and Denominations the same year.
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Daniel Cockburn began working on his first feature film that year.
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In 2009, Daniel Cockburn was one of three directors invited to a six-month fellowship in Berlin.
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Daniel Cockburn returned to Toronto toward the end of the year with a curated programme of his films and videos, to launch a publication about his work.
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Daniel Cockburn's work is strange and recursive and curious and enthralling, and sometimes all at once.
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In 2014, Daniel Cockburn returned to York University to begin working towards his Master of Fine Arts degree.
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Daniel Cockburn curates film and video and is a member of the Pleasure Dome programming collective, writing for their publication A Blueprint for Moving Images in the 21st Century.
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Daniel Cockburn has contributed to publications such as Year Zero One Forum and Cinema Scope magazine.
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In March 2005, Daniel Cockburn presented Visible Vocals, a typing performance for Feats, might, a night of performance art by video artists curated by Alissa Firth-Eagland, presented by Fado and the Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art.
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In 2014, Daniel Cockburn put together a performance about failure, Heist Gone Wrong, which opened for the It wasn't supposed to be like this exhibition at Videofag in Toronto.
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Daniel Cockburn is currently living in London, recently as a Research Fellow in Film Practice at Queen Mary University of London and on an Acme Studios residency.
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Daniel Cockburn was married to installation artist Brenda Goldstein from 2010 to 2015.
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Daniel Cockburn has called fellow video artist Matt Brown a friend.