KEN
HUDSON - ARTIST BIOGRAPHY
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Toronto
artist Ken Hudson is a nationally recognized performance artist
whose works engage the nature of public display itself. He
is the co-creator of Flying
Dog Show, the "original in-a-store window show,"
which Media Television called "a piece of street culture."
Billed as a "homeless entertainment center," this
lip-synched, multi-media "spontaneous theatrical happening"
ran for 10 weeks in 1999 on Queen Street West in Toronto.
In 2000, Mr. Hudson adapted Shakespeare's Henry the Fifth
for ice-hockey arena. The
King #5 Henry, placed the audience into a vortex of
meanings, combining a traditional theatrical classic with
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nationalistic
heroic sensibilities;
the "war of the Roses with hockey sticks." Currently
Mr. Hudson is creating a trilogy of works, the Android
Meme Cycle, that began in 2004 with an experimental
staging of Hamlet, and continues into 2005 and beyond with
a series of 88 separate performance installations. Ken Hudson
was born in Toronto in 1964 (the year "media studies"
as a discipline began), and was educated at the University
of Toronto and at the Institute for the Psychological Study
of the Arts. Additionally he trained professionally in all
aspects of physical performance with internationally recognized
artists and performers.He lives somewhere between Toronto
and Victoria Canada.Email
Ken Hudson.
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