Amelia Charter

photo of Amelia Charter, courtesy of the artist

Los Angeles, USA

Amelia Charter, born in Madison, Wisconsin, is an interdisciplinary performance artist whose work reassembles structures of viewership and installation sensually and playfully to instigate relational intimacies, permeable agency and boundaries, and the humor of surprise. Charter’s works consider the spatial perceptions of a stage as unfixed and as such, their work is performed in theatres, galleries, public and private spaces, for audiences of many, and as one-on-ones.

Charter belongs to communities of multi-modality artists that foster healing exchange, skill sharing, and care. By being in fellowship to ecologies and restoration with others, healing has a role in their practice as part of survival. They currently live and work in Los Angeles as a teacher, organizer, and designer, leading queer, process-oriented projects and experiential education in multiple disciplines for unique abilities. She continues her passion for carpentry, by building furniture and outdoor stages for community members in Southern California.

Charter has performed at Pieter Performance Space, The Electric Lodge (LA), Sector 2337, Links Hall, Mana Contemporary, Co-Prosperity Sphere, Comfort Station, Outer Space (Chicago), Kriti Gallery (Varanasi, India), The Sugar Space, The Oilwick (Indianapolis), Philadelphia Museum of Art, Mascher Space Cooperative (Philadelphia), Black Mountain Farm, Bearnstow (Maine), and in various homes, front yards, backyards, courtyards, playgrounds, alleyways, and gardens.

Charter earned their BA in Performance and Directing from Fort Lewis College in Durango, Colorado, was co-founder of Denver Performance Research (2009 - 2012) and received an MFA and fellowship in Performance from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (2014).