Tim Etchells is the Artistic Director of Forced Entertainment and one of the founding members of the company. Alongside his work with the group, Tim works independently as writer, director and artist on a variety of solo projects as well as on collaborations with other artists in different media. 

Tim’s work spans performance, video, photography, text and installation projects, and fiction. His first novel The Broken World was published in 2008 and his monograph on contemporary performance and Forced Entertainment, Certain Fragments is widely acclaimed. His recent performance projects include Sight is the Sense That Dying People Tend to Lose First with actor Jim Fletcher, in pieces with Rosas dancer Fumiyo Ikeda and That Night Follows Day, a piece performed by a cast of 14 children for adult audiences and made in collaboration with Flemish theatre company Campo.

In recent years Tim has worked extensively as a visual artist, showing work at Sketch (London), Netherlands Media Art Institute (Amsterdam), Sparwasser HQ (Berlin), Art Sheffield 2008 (Sheffield), MACBA (Barcelona), The Centre for Book Arts, Canada and Exit Art (all New York), Kunsthaus Graz and Manifesta 7 in Rovereto, Italy (2008) and Goreborg Bienale (2009). He collaborates with performance maker and writer Matthew Goulish on the imaginary think-tank Institute of Failure and is currently Legacy: Thinker in Residence (2009-2010) at Tate Research and LADA in London and has co-curated Tate Liverpool’s sculpture collection for This is Sculpture running until April 2010.

You can learn more about all of this work by visiting Tim’s website here as well as reading his regular online notebook – writings about his work and observations of things that he’s seen or done.