Oct. 2010 - Haunted Frankfurt - Frankfurt Am Main, Germany
Performer/Writer/Fabricator
Haunted Frankfurt was a sculptural and performative installation utilizing 27 performers and almost 50 artists overall, inside a large three story house in Frankfurt's Alte Sachsenhausen.
Feb. 2008 - Feb. 2010 - The Mudlark Public Theatre - New Orleans, LA
Producer/Performer/Technical Manager
A subsidiary of The Black Forrest Fancies Non-Profit theater company, The Mudlark is a black box theatre dedicated to public arts education and community use. The Mudlark and Black Forrest fancies have been awarded grants by several prestigious organizations, including: The Annenberg Foundation, The Jim Henson Foundation, New York Foundation for the Arts, and the Louisiana Division of the arts.
Oct. 2009 - The Torrent - New Orleans, LA
'The Torrent' was collaborative, new media project utilizing internet file sharing, online video hosting, internet self publish, and public performance to circulate a collection of books generated by 7 different artists piracy of each others book.
Sept. 2008 - Diagram: An Image/Text - New Orleans, LA
A collection of textual experiments as images. They were displayed at the Barristers, and Good-Children galleries in New Orleans in 2008.
May. 2006 - Dec. 2006 - New Jersey as An Impossible Object
New York, NY/Paterson, NJ
A multi-media deriavation of American Poet William C. Williams opus 'Patterson'. The project was heavily inspired by the situationist concept derrive. It largely consisted of exprimenting with various readings of the text in various places in the city coextensive, with the a-subjective, creative materialism of the book. An extensive electronic record of the project can be found at: http://impossibleobject.blogspot.com/
Education:
James Cooper studied Experimental Film and Video Art under Tammy Kinsey and Elspeth Kydd at the university of Toledo in Toledo Oh, specializing in theory, critique, and production. He has studied traditional and contemporary performance in various technical institutions around the U.S. since his childhood. He has been writing producing and performing independent theatre and film projects since high school.
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