Charlie Donnelly-Dobson

Charlie’s practice predominantly focuses on performance and installations, creating immersive and interactive environments. They often use their body and the creation of characters to explore personal experience/ journeys, political discussions or event scores (briefs given by other artists). Collaborations mixed with performance and developing works from collaborative discussions is an important area of their practice. Often, conversations with other artists can be the starting point for not only collaborative projects but personal projects. For instance, a conversation about plant weeds led to the creation of a mythology full of characters and gods, that look at personalities of nature in comparison with drug-use, psychedelia and gender identity. Although Charlie’s practice can discuss something different each project there is a recognizable overtone in all of their work as they constantly re-use and re-constitute work. Charlie does this so their practice starts to create its own mythology. These moments of internal déjà vu also explore the language of psychedelic experiences, just as making work un-seeable (jamais vu) - for instance the strategy of not being able to see actual performances but only selected documentation.  

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