Chris Kondek | Video artist/director

Chris Kondek, born 1962 in Boston, has been making video for theater and performance for over 20 years. In 1990 he began creating video with The Wooster Group in New York, designing the video for BRACE UP!, and EMPEROR JONES, among others. In 1995 he worked with Laurie Anderson, co–designing the video, for her multi media concert, “The Nerve Bible”, and her opera, “Songs and Stories from Moby Dick. He has made video for Robert Wilson (“D. D. D. 3, The Days Before”) and created a two channel video work for composer Michael Nyman’s “The Commissar Vanishes.” He moved to Berlin in 1999 and since then has created video for the choreographer Meg Stuart and for theater directors Stefan Pucher, Jossi Wieler and Wanda Golonka, among others, at Berlin’s Volksbühne am Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz, Münchner Kammerspiele, Schauspiel Frankfurt, Zürcher Schauspielhaus, Salzburger Festspiele. In 2007 he worked with director Sebastian Baumgarten in his production of PETER GRIMES at the Semperoper in Dresden. In 2004 Chris Kondek began creating his own theater work. His first piece DEAD CAT BOUNCE was awarded a price by the Goethe Institute and the ZDFtheaterkanalpreis (tv) at the „Festival Politik im Freien Theater“ in Berlin. In 2006 he created HIER IST DER APPARAT, a free media version of Bertolt Brecht’s „Ozeanflug“, in 2008 LOAN SHARK, a performance about currency trading, and STUFF, a piece about commodity trading.