Martin
Butler - Director
Martin
Butler is a British born interdisciplinary artist, stage director and
curator based in Berlin. He was trained in Drama at Manchester
University, and then later Choreography and Performance at Amsterdam
School of the Arts, in the Netherlands.
His
work always bridged and combined various disciplines, dance, theatre,
music, film, performance, new media, and fashion, and through this
interdisciplinary approach his work explores the new dramatic that
the combination of different genres facilitate.
His
new media and installation work has been shown in the Istanbul
Modern, Beijing Design Week, European Media Arts Festival in
Osnabrück, Fundación Telefonica in Lima, Istanbul Design Biennale,
Amsterdam Museum, Pixxelpoint Festival in Slovenia, Olympus
Photographry Playground, Berlin, shaded view on fashion film
festival, Centre Pompidou Paris, Kasteel Keukenhof, the Netherlands,
the Museum of Modern Art in Arnhem, Marres, Maastricht, Salon
Amsterdam, and Mediamatic, amongst many others.
Since
1998 he has been creating performance work, at various theatres and
festivals internationally.
From
2004-2014 he worked as artistic consultant for Mediamatic, Amsterdam,
developing exhibitions and events, including the Amsterdam Bienalle
and the IK, IK, IK series of exhibitions dealing with self
representation.
In
2010-2012 he collaborated as researcher and co-writer, for a project
of Delft University and European Institute of Technology led by Prof.
Caroline Nevejan, examining performance presence and trust in the
internet age, the book " Witnessing You" was published in
November 2012.
Since
2003 he has also been working as a commercial Art Director, concept
developer and installation designer for fashion related events, and
has collaborated with Diesel, Diesel Black Gold, Olympus, ELLE, ID&T,
Moschino, Harmont and Blaine, MCQ, See by Chloe, Aliveshoes, Camel
active, Mercedes Benz Dutch Fashion Awards, Johan Cruijff, FILA,
Tomorrow World, And Beyond, and Andrea Crews, amongst many others.
Currently
he is working as dramaturgist for the Opera/Dance film “Symmetry”
by director Ruben van Leer in collaboration with CERN (European
Nuclear Research Centre), CTM Pictures and NTR Podium which
will premiere on Dutch television in Spring 2015.
He is working as director
and scenographer for the Opera project "Perseus &
Andromeda", together with Italian ensemble L'Aura Rilucente,
which introduces children to the world of the classics and baroque
music, combining performance, shadow play and opera and is
developing a new piece based upon the life of Gianni Versace with
ensemble “Brand, Bauer & Frick” for season 2015/ 2016.
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