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Aileen Campbell
Aileen is a visual artist who makes voiceworks. Through her work she explores her intimate understanding of the structure of music gained during her time as a young chorister and from voice tuition to extend her vocal technique. Her performance and video pieces construct situations which question historical perceptions and personal experiences of the voice.As well as employing her own voice Aileen recruits untrained groups of singers. In Rehearsal Room a performance/installation first exhibited in 2003, she successfully conducted a gallery audience through a series of voice exercises via a television screen showing brief instructions and coloured bouncing balls corresponding to the colour of the audience’s lapel carnations distributed prior to the event. Removing the possibility of a polished performance, the rehearsal and the experiment are no longer the precursors to the event, but are the event in themselves.
During Aileen’s MFA at Glasgow School of Art she undertook a one-year exchange to CalArts, Los Angeles, where she was encouraged to work across the Music and Fine Art departments.
Aileen has collaborated with the Glasgow Improvisers Orchestra and DPJ Ensemble and exhibited at Gimpel Fils (London), Tramway (Glasgow), Dangerous Curve (Los Angeles) and Edinburgh College of Art.
Written: 15th Apr, 08
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