CV

//JØRGEN CALLESEN
Performance artist, media artist, curator, teacher
email jorgen.callesen@warehouse9.dk  – mobile phone +45.2729 3387

Born 1966 in Hjørring, Denmark

Academic Education
M.A./Ph.d. i Information & Media Studies, Aarhus University 1995/2005

Dance, Animation and Puppet Theater Education

1997-2007 Open Training – Butoh & Release by Kitt Johnson , X-act, Copenhagen

2001 Image Work (Workshop) by Kitt Johnson, Dansens Hus, Copenhagen (2001)

1999 Marionette and Physical movement (Workshop) Michael Meschke, National Danish School of Theater, Copenhagen

1998 Butoh – Workshop: Drawing the Moment – Yoko Kaseki & Marc Ates, LopLop, Berlin

1998 Biomekanik – Meyerholds acting technique (Workshop) by Bogdanov (Moscow), Theater School Ernst Busch, Berlin

1998 1999 Puppet theater, acting & physical theater
Theater School “Ernst Bush”, Berlin course by Prof. Hartmut Lorenz Dept. Of puppet theater

Professional Background

2009-2011 Artistic Director of the live art venue Warehouse 9

2008 Artistic director for the visual concept and performer in the Musical ”Bang Bang” by Kenneth Bager, directed by Signe Fabricius (Premiere 2. October)

2008 Project manager and designer of the media art & performance database ”PRAMbase” supported by the Nordic Cultural Fund

2007-2006 Guest Lecturer at the Royal Danish Art Academy in Performance Art

2007-2005 Workshop leader “Digital Media for the stage arts”, Odsherred Theater School, Odsherred, Denmark

2006 Project leader and planner for Copenhagen Queer Festival 2006

2006 Project leader for the Nordic art Network PRAMnet.org (Practice driven Research in Art & Media)

2006-2001 Associate researcher at the Smart Lab Centre, St. Martins College of Art, London, UK