1. Tim Etchells was born on 1962 and is an English artist and writer based in Sheffield and London.
10 Facts About Tim Etchells
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Tim Etchells has published several works of fiction, written about contemporary performance and exhibited his visual art projects in various locations.
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Tim Etchells is currently Professor of Performance and Writing at Lancaster University.
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Tim Etchells is currently Professor of Performance at Lancaster University and has been teaching extensively in a variety of contexts.
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Tim Etchells has published several works of fiction, Endland Stories, The Dream Dictionary for the Modern Dreamer and the novel The Broken World and has written about contemporary performance in The Guardian and in artist monographs, such as an MIT Press publication on the work of Tehching Hsieh and a Live Art Development Agency publication on Ron Athey.
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On 25 November 2013, Etchells gave a public keynote address Live Forever, at Tate Modern in the frame of their research series Collecting the Performative A new public sculpture work by Etchells, A Stitch in Time was commissioned for the Lumiere light festival in Derry, and installed on top of the old Rosemount Shirt Factory.
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In 2014 Tim Etchells was invited to be part of Lisbon biennial Artist in the City program.
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Empty Stages has been exhibited widely, including as part of Tim Etchells' solo show at Jakopic Gallery in Ljubljana in 2013.
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Tim Etchells's work is mocking and meandering but can really get under the skin, and prick at latent feelings of abjection, loneliness, the inability to communicate, futility.
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Tim Etchells collaborated with interactive performance maker Ant Hampton on two projects Lest We See and The Quiet Volume which has been produced in English, German, Spanish, Slovenian, Japanese, Polish, Dutch and Portuguese.