Brody Condon (born 1974 Mexico) is an American artist. He facilitates and documents game-like group encounters that experientially probe dissociative phenomena, critical psychology, and performance art history. The resulting immersive situations, video and objects are often made in collaboration with researchers, craftspeople, and public participants.

Education

Condon received an MFA in visual arts from the University of California, San Diego in 2001. He attended the Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten from 2005-2006 and the Skowhegan residency in 2001.

Selected work

He was first recognized for the online game intervention and anti-war protest ''Velvet-Strike'', made with artist Anne Marie Schleiner, and most notably exhibited at the 2004

Whitney Biennial The Whitney Biennial is a biennial exhibition of contemporary American art, typically by young and lesser known artists, on display at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York City, United States. The event began as an annual exhibition ...

. In 2003, with the LA collective C-level, he developed a controversial "documentary computer game" based on the

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. Condon continued to create self-playing software and related work until 2008 that "locates the confluence between the pursuit of body transcendence in 1970's performance... with computer and live roleplaying games." Condon’s work is notable for its early use o
Nordic LARP
techniques to create immersive role-playing events in an art context that explore “the permeable nature of self, the social dimensions of creativity and the potential of the individual to access alternate states of being.” Notable performances include ''Case'', based on William Gibson's cyberpunk classic Neuromancer at the New Museum of Contemporary Art, and ''Level Five'', a larp based on historic Large Group Awareness Trainings at the Hammer Museum and th
9th Berlin Biennale
From 2012-2016 he collaborated with the Scottish artist Christine Borland on 'Circles of Focus', a research based project exploring human body donation, Neolithic ceramic production, and 18th century physics experiments. In 2019 he created the cover art and music videos for the record ''Gallipoli'' by

Beirut (band) Beirut is an American band that was originally the solo musical project of Zach Condon. Beirut's music combines elements of indie rock and world music. The band's first performance with the full brass section was in New York, in May 2006, in su ...

, using group encounter techniques he developed to assist in the visualization of band leader and cousin Zach Condon's internal states.

Selected Collections

Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Kadist Foundation, and Albright Knox Gallery.

References

External links

Artist's Website
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