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 ECRÃ
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.
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
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:
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:
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
Interviewed by Matt Skallerud/ Pink Media @mattskal #ILoveGay Today -'Showcasing and bringing together some of the amazing #LGBTQ voices from all over the world'
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Hamish Downie’s Five Questions With – Lee Campbell(March 2021)
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.
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.
Delighted that I have been interviewed for Inspirational magazine no. 36 - six-page full interview and many images of recent film/performance/collage works.
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Review by Corinne Felgate ofLOST 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 INARTMONTHLYOFWITH 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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