Anneke Kampman (b. 1986, Edinburgh) is an artist and musician working at the intersections of writing, performance, music, and the moving image. Operating as theories, fictions, or framing devices, her works draw from her own experiences as a musician alongside the methods and arguments of critical theory and infrastructural critique, re-staging the techniques of the cultural industries in an “immanent critique” of pop. Key to this is an investment in questions related to the technological mediation, digitisation, and asset management of the artistic ‘personality’ (broadly understood). Kampman’s practice engages technologies of sound production and re-production (including microphones, speakers, synthesizers, drum-machines, and digital watches) as active participants, examining the histories of fidelity, time, economy, and models of desire these instruments program or manifest. Recent video and performance works explore the politics and multivalent histories of popular music’s global circulation via visual media such as music-video. She completed a practice-led PhD at the School of Fine Art in 2023, under the supervision of prof. Jon Thomson, prof. David Burrows and Benedict Drew. Anneke was an associate artist at Open School East (2016-2017) and resident artist at Somerset House (2018-2021) with the artist collective Common Study, where they facilitated a regular research programme.
Her work has been presented at San Mei Gallery, LUX Artist Moving Image Festival, Pump House Gallery, South London Gallery, Glasgow International Festival, Jerwood Space, Somerset House, La Monnaie De Munt, Café Oto, Mayday Rooms, Chapter Arts Centre, and BBC Tectonics Festival.
Contact: annekekampman@gmail.com
2023 An Endless Archive · San Mei Gallery · London
2019 Labour’s Own Sounding Ideal · The Pump House Gallery · London
2023 Science and Technology · Slade School of Fine Art Postgraduate Degree Show · London
2020 Dead. Air. Management · ‘Hanging Out’ LUX Artist Moving Image Festival cur. Emmie McClusky, Ima-Abasi Okon and Kimberley McNeil · Tramway · Glasgow
2020 Solo screening programme of my work and Q&A · Filmhuis Cavia · Amsterdam
2018 A Public Library of and for Listening · Group exhibition and events programme organised with Cannach Macbride · Glasgow International · The Mitchell Library · Glasgow
2018 Dead. Air. Management · ‘We Are Having a Little Flirt’ · Group exhibition w/ Erica Scourti, Monica Espinosa and Adam Christensen · The Pump House Gallery · London
2018 Spin the Bottle · Installation and workshop series for children and families · ‘We Are Having a Little Flirt’ · Curated by Ned Mc Connell & Paula Zambrano · The Pump House Gallery · London
2017 Songs for Another Voice · ‘These Rotten Words’ · Curated by George Vasey · Group exhibition w/Anna Barham, Johann Arens and others · Chapter Arts Centre · Cardiff
2017 Songs for Another Voice · ‘Laboratory of Dark Matters’ listening Session w/Evan Ifekoya and Rachel Finney · Guest Projects · London
2017 What the Voice Wants · ‘Open Return’ · Open School East · London
2022 TEST-CARD · 24-hr online broadcast developed and hosted w/ Nastassja Simmensky · Featuring work by myself and Simmensky, Benedict Drew, Esther Leslie, Sam Dolbear and others.
2020 Ella · Performance and film screening · Somerset House · London
2020 Slogan of the Living Person · Performance as part of Christof Migone’s ‘Mixer’ · South London Gallery · London
2020 Slogan of the Living Person · Performance · PEER Gallery · London
2017 The Song Stayed on The Air For A Few Weeks · ‘Undoing Listening’ · Transmission Gallery · Glasgow
2017 Figures. Figure. Stuck · Solo performance · ‘Undoing Listening’ · Transmission Gallery · Glasgow
2017 Figures. Figure. Stuck · Live online broadcast · Mira Calix/Warp Records ‘WEPortal’ at the V&A · London
2017 Instructions for A Speculative Synthesizer · Broadcast on Radiophrenia · CCA Glasgow
2016 Where Blips of Light Called Players Disintegrate · Performance w/ Gery Georgieva and Molly Palmer Staging Series: ‘Blend the Acclaim of Your Chant with the Timbrals’ · Cur. by George Vasey · Jerwood · London
2016 Instructions for A Speculative Synthesizer · Performance Lecture · Guest Projects · London
2016 Labyrinthine · BBC Tectonics Festival · City Halls Glasgow
2016 Labyrinthine · w/Jane Dickson and Lucy Duncombe ‘The Self the Other Festival’ · Qo2/La Monnaie De Munt · Brussels
2016 Solo live performance with Tsembla and F. Ampism · Café Oto · London
Figures of Capital: Music-video as Immanent Critique · Lecture · Marxism in Culture seminar series, Institute for Historical Research, University of London · 31 May 2024
Artist talk · San Mei Gallery · London · 09 June 2023
2022 Restructing Feeling: Form as Contradiction in Rosalia’s ‘Motomami’ · Lecture · Goldsmiths Music Research Series · London
2021 Negative Product Media · Presentation · ‘Sonoridades Fronteiricas’ · Brazil
2019 Labour’s Own Sounding Ideal · Presentation · EARN Conference · Leeds School of Art
2016 Inside and outside the institution: Women Pioneers of Electronic Music · ‘Working in Music’ · Organised by the Musicians Union · Mitchell Library · Glasgow
2015 Labyrinthine · Presentation · Q02 · Brussels · Belgium
2022 Chapel FM · Workshop with young people from Leeds Art Gallery collective and Chapel FM to produce audio content for a series of radio shows · Organised by curator George Vasey · Leeds Art Gallery
2019 Confronting the New Conservatism · Seminar by Morgan Quaintance organised w/ Common Study · Somerset House · London
2019 Promises of Non-Illusion · Theodor Adorno’s ‘Aesthetic Theory’ reading group organised w/ Common Study · Slade School of Art · London
2018 Saying Yes to No · Event series organised w/ Common Study including seminar on ‘Enduring Time’ with Lisa
Bariatser, ‘The Nightcleaners’, screening at the Dog and Bell Pub and ‘Background Noise’ Sound Walk · Deptford X Festival · London
2018 Reproduction, Art, Struggle · Reading group w/ Common Study · Somerset House Studios · London
2017 Wrestle a Lot Harder · Music Recording Project for young people based in East London (10 – 18) included
sessions led by Mira Calix and Charles Haywood · Open School East · London
2017 Soul-Less-Ness · Curriculum for sound, voice and performance · Included workshops, listening sessions and other interventions with invited participants such as Holly Pester, Sally O’Reilly, Andrea Arnold and Chris Jones (from Ultrared) · Open School East · London
Visible-Music: Monopolated Light and Power · Public discussion studying the visible relationship of aesthetics and politics in contemporary music-video with Paul Rekret, Edward George, Ash Sharma, and Louis Moreno · Hosted in dialogue with An Endless Archive · San Mei Gallery · London · 08 June 2023
Experiments in Standard Time 1 & 2 · Two evenings of performances hosted with OH featuring Lisa Busby and Gabriel Bohm Calles, Anneke Kampman and Katie Hare, Mike Brooks and Carlos Perrea-Milla and WINDOWS · Hosted in dialogue with Labour’s Own Sounding Ideal · Pump House Gallery · London · 21 & 29 March 2019
Wrestle a Lot Harder · Music Project for young people in East London (10 – 18) included sessions with MiraCalix, Charles Haywood, and Mattthew de Kersaint Giraudeau · Open School East · London · November 2016
Soul-Less-Ness · Curriculum for sound, voice, and performance · Included workshops, listening sessions and other interventions with invited participants such as Holly Pester, Sally O’Reilly, Andrea Arnold, and Chris Jones (Ultrared) · Open School East · London · May – September 2016
2015 Talking Shapes · Conquering Animal Sound · Chemikal Underground Records
2013 On Floating Bodies · Conquering Animal Sound · Chemikal Underground Records
2012 Ageold · ANAKANAK · Gizeh Records
2012 Places and Spaces · Haftor Medboe & Anneke Kampman · Fabricant Records
2011 Kammerspiel · Conquering Animal Sound · Gizeh/ Chemikal Underground Records
2017 Lizzie Lloyd, These Rotten Words, Art Review, May 2017
2017 Niki Russell, These Rotten Words, Art Monthly, May 2017, No.406
2017 Ned McConnell, Artworks London Profile, July 2017
2017 Holly Williams, The Woman Who Could Draw Sound, BBC Culture, May 2017
2014 Chris McCall, Talking Shapes Review, The Skinny
2013 Mike Diver, On Floating Bodies Review, BBC Music
2013 Nicola Meighan, On Floating Bodies Review, the Quietus
2011 Mike Diver, Kammerpiel Review, BBC Music