David Birkin

David Tristan Birkin (born 1977) is a British artist working with photography and performance art. He has also worked as a film and theatre actor.

David Birkin
Born1977 (1977)
NationalityBritish / American
EducationUniversity of Oxford
Slade School of Fine Art
Whitney Museum Independent Study Program
RelativesAndrew Birkin, Jane Birkin, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Lou Doillon, Serge Gainsbourg, Anno Birkin [1]
Websitedavidbirkin.net

Education

Birkin studied human sciences and anthropology at Oxford University (1996–1999). He completed an MA at the Slade School of Fine Art (2009–2011) with a scholarship from the Arts and Humanities Research Council.

Birkin was a fellow of the Art and Law Program in New York (2011–2012)[2] and the Independent Study Program at the Whitney Museum of American Art (2012–2013).[3] He was an artist-in-residence at Yaddo in 2013,[4] the MacDowell Colony in 2015,[5] and Lower Manhattan Cultural Council's studios on Governors Island in 2016.[6]

Work

Much of Birkin's work relates to war. Projects have included a collaboration with the courtroom sketch artist at the Guantanamo military commissions;[7] a digital photographic transcription of identification numbers from the Iraq War civilian casualties database;[8] a photo archive image from Kabul traced to Renaissance lapis lazuli mines in Afghanistan;[9] an extract of CIA legalese in skywriting above Manhattan;[10] and a plane circling the Statue of Liberty's torch towing a banner that read "The Shadow of a Doubt".[11]

Birkin has published photo-essays and articles in Frieze,[12] Cabinet,[13] Creative Time Reports,[14] Ibraaz,[15] Disegno,[16] The Harvard Advocate,[17] and the American Civil Liberties Union blog[18] on subjects ranging from a legally protected species of iguana roaming freely at Guantanamo Bay detention camp[19] to Marilyn Monroe's 1945 photoshoot at an army drone factory in California.[20]

In 2010 his performance photographs won him the €25,000 Sovereign Art Prize at the Barbican Centre in London.[21]

His show "Mouths at the Invisible Event" at The Mosaic Rooms in London in 2015[22] was described by Hyperallergic as "a methodical examination of the language, aesthetics, and ethos of modern warfare [that] ultimately makes the emotional reality and Kafkaesque lunacy of such a system hit home".[23]

Birkin has also worked as an actor in film and theatre. He appeared in two episodes of Star Trek: The Next Generation: in the 1990 episode "Family" as René Picard, Captain Jean-Luc Picard's nephew; and the 1992 episode "Rascals", as a young Jean-Luc Picard. His film credits have included roles in The Return of the Musketeers (1989, as Louis XIV), Impromptu (1991), Les Misérables (1998), All the Queen's Men (2001), Charlotte Gray (2001), and Sylvia (2003). In 2010 he appeared in Ourhouse by Nathaniel Mellors.[24]

gollark: I just want to know how to idiomatically make GCable wrappers for the various C objects.
gollark: No, I have that stuff done.
gollark: I want a *different* set of "OPERATIONS ON RELEVANT NODE THING" and no HTML generation at the end, and it would be bees to just copy-paste the function here.
gollark: As of now, my code does```nimproc renderToHtml*(input: string): string = let wlRegex = re"\[\[([^:\]]+):?([^\]]+)?\]\]" let opt = CMARK_OPT_UNSAFE or CMARK_OPT_FOOTNOTES or CMARK_OPT_STRIKETHROUGH_DOUBLE_TILDE or CMARK_OPT_TABLE_PREFER_STYLE_ATTRIBUTES # create parser instance let str: cstring = input len: csize_t = len(input).csize_t parser: ParserPtr = cmark_parser_new(opt.cint) if parser == nil: raise newException(CatchableError, "failed to initialize parser") defer: cmark_parser_free(parser) [further initialization stuff] # parse document, get AST cmark_parser_feed(parser, str, len) let doc = cmark_parser_finish(parser) defer: cmark_node_free(doc) if doc == nil: raise newException(CatchableError, "parsing failed - should not occur") # iterate over AST using built-in cmark-gfm AST iteration thing for (evType, node) in cmarkTree(doc): # if it is a text node [OPERATIONS ON RELEVANT NODE THING] let html: cstring = cmark_render_html(doc, opt.cint, cmark_parser_get_syntax_extensions(parser)) defer: free(html) result = $html```
gollark: cmark. I will explain.

References
  1. "IMDB David Birkin". IMDB David Birkin.
  2. "Fellows: 2010–present". Art + Law Program
  3. "Whitney Museum Independent Study Program". Whitney Museum of American Art.
  4. "History". 23 August 2016. Yaddo
  5. "History". Archived from the original on 15 March 2017. Retrieved 21 March 2017. The MacDowell Colony
  6. "David Birkin at LMCC". Lower Manhattan Cultural Council
  7. "Cyclura nubila". a/political.org
  8. "The New Alchemists". 6 November 2013. Photo50
  9. "Blue Skies and Error Screens in David Birkin's Documents of the New York Skyline". Photomonitor
  10. "David Birkin's project Severe Clear (2014), skywriting over New York on Memorial Day weekend". Culture+Conflict
  11. "The Shadow of a Doubt Circles Liberty's Torch". American Civil Liberties Union
  12. "How Important is Art as a Form of Protest?". Frieze
  13. "The Iguanas of Guantánamo". Cabinet
  14. "No Explanation Necessary: A Shroud of Secrecy Surrounds the Drone War's Civilian Casualties". June 2015. Creative Time
  15. "Sous les Pavés, la Plage: On Assumption and Authority". Ibraaz
  16. "A Few Chickens and a Parrot". Disegno
  17. "Law, War, and Some Terms of Art". The Harvard Advocate
  18. "Existence or Nonexistence: CIA's Linguistic Somersault Takes to the Sky". American Civil Liberties Union
  19. "Cyclura nubila". www.davidbirkin.net
  20. "Blonde Bombshells: Marilyn Monroe and Drone Warfare". Frieze
  21. Davies, Lucy (9 June 2010). "Compound Ghosts: David Birkin's performance photographs have won the €25,000 Sovereign Art Prize". The Telegraph
  22. "Exhibition: Mouths At The Invisible Event". The Mosaic Rooms
  23. "An Exhibition Brings Us Face to Face with the War on Terror". 20 February 2015. Hyperallergic
  24. "Nathaniel Mellors: Ourhouse". ICA, London
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