Bryony Kimmings

Bryony Kimmings (born 30 March 1981) is a live artist based in London, UK. She is an associate artist of the Soho Theatre,[1] and, in 2016, was commissioned to write The Pacifist's Guide to the War on Cancer for Complicite Associates.[2]

She creates multi-platform art works to provoke change.[3] Her work centres mostly around "social experiments",[4] which in the past have included the artist retracing an STI to its source,[5] spending seven days in a controlled environment in a constant state of intoxication[6] and becoming a pop star invented by a nine-year-old.[7]

As well as appearing at the Soho Theatre, Kimmings' work has toured across the world including: Antifest (Finland), Culturgest (Portugal), Fusebox Festival (Texas), The Southbank Centre, Melbourne International Comedy Festival (Australia), and Lisinski Operahouse (Croatia).[8]

Early career

Kimmings graduated with a degree in Modern Drama from Brunel University in 2003.[9] In a 2011 interview she said of her time at Brunel: "It was Live Art and the history of performance artists that excited me the most", and so immediately afterwards she established the company 'Glass Eyed' with friends. 'Glass Eyed' created work for two years before being dissolved.[10]

In 2006 she began Celebrityville a soap cabaret following the lives of forgotten celebrities living in a fictional town. A new episode was created every month between 2006 and 2008. Describing working on Celebrityville Kimmings said "this gave me a baptism of fire really, making such a large volume of work, learning about how to run a night, what to do if things broke half way through, making costumes, doing marketing - everything."[10] When Celebrityville ended, Kimmings began to explore a solo live art career with autobiographical themes.[10]

Shows

Performance work

  • Fake It Till You Make It (2015). Premiered at the Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh.[11]
  • That Catherine Bennett Show (2014). Premiered at the Southbank Centre, London.[12]
  • Credible Likeable Superstar Rolemodel (2013). Premiered at the Pleasance Dome, Edinburgh.[13]
  • Heartache.Heartbreak. (2012). Premiered at Culturgest, Lisbon.[14]
  • Kablooey! (2012). Premiered at Battersea Arts Centre, London.[15]
  • Mummy Time (2011). Premiered at The Junction, Cambridge.[16]
  • A Date with the Night (2011). Premiered at ANTI-Contemporary Art Festival, Kuopio.[17]
  • 7 Day Drunk (2011).[18]

As playwright

  • A Pacifist's Guide to the War on Cancer (2016). Book by Bryony Kimmings and Brian Lobel. Lyrics by Bryony Kimmings. Co-Produced byApproach Complicite Associates and National Theatre.[19]

Approach

Known primarily for creating autobiographical work, Kimmings achieved notoriety with her 2010 piece Sex Idiot, where she revealed her sexual history after discovering she had contracted an STI.[5] In her 2011 piece 7 Day Drunk Kimmings collaborated with a team of scientists to analyse the impact of alcohol on her creativity.[6]

In an interview in March 2011, speaking of the drivers behind her work Kimmings said: "I guess in a way it is an artist's duty to say and explore the things that are untouchable, or hard to talk about."[10]

In a 2012 interview for Pulse Fringe Festival, Kimmings introduces herself as "an artist who makes autobiographical work" she continues to say her work "always follows a kind of autobiographical experiment that I go on."[20] Her profile on the British Council of Drama and Dance website says: "Bryony works autobiographically and begins the development of her work with a social experiment. She is inspired by the taboos and anomalies of British culture and her work promotes the airing of her own dirty laundry to oil conversations on seemingly difficult subjects."[21]

Awards

In 2010 Kimmings won a Total Theatre Award for Sex Idiot,[22] and was listed in Time Out magazine's Best of the Year (2010) – off-West End and Fringe Theatre category.[23]

References

  1. ↑ "Bryony Kimmings". Soho Theatre Company Ltd. Archived from the original on 18 June 2016. Retrieved 18 June 2016.
  2. ↑ "A Pacifist's Guide to the War on Cancer". Complicite. Retrieved 18 June 2016.
  3. ↑ Demos, Chrisanthi (18 June 2015). "Bryony Kimmings, performance artist, Fake It 'Til You Make It". The Weekend Edition. Retrieved 18 June 2016.
  4. ↑ Venkataramanan, Madhumita (June 2014). "Bryony Kimmings explores link between drinking with creativity". Neuroscience. Wired. Retrieved 18 June 2016.
  5. 1 2 "Arts Interview Bryony Kimmings". Street Press Australia Pty Ltd. 26 March 2014. Retrieved 18 June 2016.
  6. 1 2 Gardner, Lyn (20 August 2011). "7 Day Drunk – review". The Guardian. Guardian News and Media Limited. Retrieved 18 June 2016.
  7. ↑ Love, Catherine (7 August 2013). "Lack of female role models? Make one up: Bryony Kimmings' homemade hero". The Guardian. Retrieved 18 June 2016.
  8. ↑ "Bryony Kimmings". Bryony Kimmings. Retrieved 18 June 2016.
  9. ↑ Dessau, Bruce (30 July 2015). "Bryony Kimmings interview: Joke therapy". Evening Standard. Retrieved 18 June 2016.
  10. 1 2 3 4 "Interview: Bryony Kimmings Talks Sex, Booze and Performance". RunRiot.com. Retrieved 18 June 2016.
  11. ↑ Gardner, Lyn (8 August 2015). "Fake It 'Til You Make It at Edinburgh festival review – divides audience into smilers and sobbers". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 9 February 2017.
  12. ↑ Pringle, Stewart (18 February 2014). "That Catherine Bennett Show - Exeunt Magazine". exeuntmagazine.com. Retrieved 9 February 2017.
  13. ↑ "Edinburgh 2013: Credible Likeable Superstar Rolemodel - A bold,". The Independent. 20 August 2013. Retrieved 9 February 2017.
  14. ↑ "Bryony Kimmings Ltd". www.bryonykimmings.com. Retrieved 9 February 2017.
  15. ↑ "The Good Neighbour, Battersea Arts Centre, review". Telegraph.co.uk. Retrieved 9 February 2017.
  16. ↑ "Sampled - Exeunt Magazine". exeuntmagazine.com. Retrieved 9 February 2017.
  17. ↑ "Bryony Kimmings Ltd". www.bryonykimmings.com. Retrieved 9 February 2017.
  18. ↑ "Bryony Kimmings, Southbank Centre - review". Evening Standard. 18 March 2013. Retrieved 9 February 2017.
  19. ↑ Billington, Michael (20 October 2016). "A Pacifist's Guide to the War on Cancer review – bold musical demystifies the disease". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 9 February 2017.
  20. ↑ "An Interview With Bryony Kimmings". Pulse Fringe Festival/youtube. Retrieved 18 June 2016.
  21. ↑ "Bryony Kimmings". British Council. Retrieved 18 June 2016.
  22. ↑ "Bryony Kimmings". exeunt. Retrieved 18 June 2016.
  23. ↑ "Best of the year 2010: off-West End and fringe theatre". Time Out Magazine. Retrieved 18 June 2016.
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