Speaking parts
Narrative overlay / words / saying

︎The Bleaching 2024
︎New Futures™ 2021
︎Radical Acts 2020
︎La Perruque 2018
︎Public Announcements 2021
︎Public Announcements 2017
︎Artwork haiku 2014
︎ Eternal situation 2013
︎The Russian Project 2012
︎The Green Text 2012


Slapstick tactics
Slapstick physicality / site-gags  / non-linguistic

︎Head case in point 2019
︎CAST 2011
︎Relative straightness 2008
︎New Diagonal 2007
︎Standard run 2007
︎The Velodrome Project 2006
︎Spirit & Muscle 2006
   + Dizzy pupil 2005

︎ Deep & Shallow 2004
︎Feeling for you 2002

Super 8 films
Movement / gesture / abstraction

︎16 x Super 8 films


About —

My projects are produced on unceded Kulin Nations Country where I work and live.

I work within the mediums of video, audio, Super 8 film, photography, live and recorded performance.
 
My practice examines various representational strategies, each one linked by an interest in the body and its agency within the everyday. Recurrent themes include humour and tension between received cultural values, individual agency and free will.

I am represented by Sutton Gallery in Melbourne.

Download my 2024 CV here



Mark


The Velodrome Project 2006
5:06 duration
Collaboration with Alicia Frankovich 2006
Video documentation of live performance
Filmed by Alex Martinis Roe


The Velodrome Project
Collaboration with Alicia Frankovich 2006
Still images from video documentation

The Velodrome Project was a one-day public event held at the Brunswick Cycling Velodrome in Melbourne. Alicia Frankovich and I made three sculptural works on the velodrome field; a large black circle painted directly onto the grass, a wooden section of roller coaster (based on the ‘The Big Dipper’ in St. Kilda) and a 6 x 4 metre blue stretched canvas that was held perpendicular by a wooden frame.

The audience was invited to view this spectacle as part of a one-day event, which included gymnastic performances by the artists and a ‘sculptural’ performance with a parachute. The Brunswick Cycling Club participated in the event by conducting training sessions throughout the day. The Velodrome Project was viewed from stadium seating, however bike riders were able to circumnavigate the event via the velodrome track. A catalogue was produced with an essay by Alex Martinis Roe.

Click here to read ‘The Velodrome Project’ essay by Alex Martinis Roe



The Velodrome Project
Collaboration with Alicia Frankovich 2006
Documentation of live event from across field area
Photo credit: Bianca Hester



The Velodrome Project
Collaboration with Alicia Frankovich 2006
Documentation of live event from stadium seating
Photo credit: Bianca Hester



Mark