Daniel R Marks is an interdisciplinary artist based in Naarm/Melbourne, currently undertaking a PhD research project in the area of “post-singular” performance-installation methodologies at RMIT University.
Applying a framework of queer self-esotericism to processes of entropy and feedback-looping, Marks works through collusions of performance art, poetic-didactic writing/diagram work, sculptural installation, and accumulative media archives to exhume intertextual potentialities of embodiment. Artefacts of doing and undoing are, in Marks’ practice, choreographed as archaeo-architectural re-configurations of bodily agency.
EXHIBITIONS/EVENTS:
2021 FLUID: Versatile Identities in the 21st Century – Wyndham Art Gallery, Werribee (upcoming group exhibition for Midsumma 2021, curated by Megan Evans and Lola-Mae Pink)
2020-2021 }.exxxxu.exxxxu.exxxxu.exxxxu{ – Online commission for KINGS Artist-Run, Melbourne, in collaboration with Mohamed Chamas
2020 The new (ab)normal – RMIT Gallery, Melbourne (online group exhibition curated by Dr Tammy Hulbert and Helen Rayment)
2020 Leżąca Postać: Limit-Forensics – Dual Existence (project for online performance art platform curated by Kate Stodart)
2020 GIVING MYSELF OVER - BLINDSIDE, Melbourne (performance program in collaboration with Sam Nugent)
2020 Debut XVI: To Love It All Again - BLINDSIDE, Melbourne (group exhibition curated by Lucie McIntosh and Jake Treacy)
2019 Cast Away – Trocadero Art Space, Footscray (collaborative publication with Caoife Power and Leila Doneo Baptist, panel discussion and solo spoken word performance)
2019 Sightings & Listenings – Bachelor of Arts (Fine Art) (Honours) Graduate Exhibition, RMIT
2019 Operatic Runway – for The Place Between at Schoolhouse Gallery, Collingwood
(performance program curated by Kate Stodart)
(performance program curated by Kate Stodart)
2019 Drone/Container – Trocadero Art Space, Footscray (solo exhibition/performance project)
2019 Resolution of the Vessel – solo performance project/film piece for Immerse 2019, Swinburne University Wantirna Campus
2019 1Y3819 – solo performance for Dogmilk Films' Aluk fundraiser event
2019 [crumbling lotus] – First Site, Melbourne (solo exhibition)
2019 Ecstasy of the Ancestor – Alternating Current Art Space, Windsor (solo exhibition)
2019 Queer Country – Dudley House, Bendigo (group exhibition)
2018 RMIT Bachelor of Fine Art Graduate Exhibition
2018 In Synthesis – Brunswick Street Gallery, Fitzroy (solo exhibition)
2018 Co.Lab – Bendigo Library (two collaborations with Gregory Marks and Ceardai Demelza respectively, group exhibition)
2018 Virtufauna – Testing Grounds, Melbourne (interactive performance)
2018 Queer Country – Dudley House, Bendigo (group exhibition)
2017 RESPECT – A Queer Affair – Brunswick Street Gallery, Fitzroy (group exhibition)
2017 CLICK ’17 Photography Prize – Brunswick Street Gallery, Fitzroy
2017 Co.Lab – Bendigo Library (in collaboration with Ceardai Demelza, group exhibition)
2017 Queer Country – Dudley House, Bendigo (group exhibition)
2016 White Christmas – Arnold Street Gallery, Bendigo (group exhibition)
2016 In God’s Eye – La Trobe Visual Arts Centre, Bendigo (group exhibition)
2016 Enlighten – Bendigo Festival of Cultures (artist and event photographer)
2015 Luminescence – Bendigo TAFE (end-of-year student exhibition)
2015 Pigment of the Imagination – Heathcote Winery (group exhibition)
2014 Triad – Heathcote Winery (group exhibition)
2014 Small Works Prize – Viewpoint Gallery, Bendigo
PUBLICATIONS:
2020 FEAT 2 magazine, UMPRUM, Prague
2020 Video interview with curator Kate Stodart (Dual Existence/Vimeo)
2019 Cast Away (poetry booklet in collaboration with Caoife Power and Leila Doneo Baptist), distributed via Trocadero Art Space
2019 Hyper Copy_ exhibition catalogue (poetry: Drone Sermons)
2018 RMIT Bachelor of Arts (Fine Art) Graduate Exhibition catalogue
2016 Front cover of Art & Design Education Resource Guide (artwork: I Saw)
AWARDS/SELECTIONS:
2019 Vice-Chancellor’s List Award – RMIT
2018 First featured artist for Bendarts (Bendigo arts tourism site)
2017 Honourable Mention – CLICK ‘17 Photography Prize – Brunswick Street Gallery, Fitzroy
2016 Certificate of Achievement – La Trobe University Pro Vice-Chancellor’s Commendation
2015 Mason Family Trust Award – Diploma Student – Bendigo TAFE, Bendigo
2014 Nominated – President’s Medal for Most Outstanding Certificate Student of 2013, The Gordon, Geelong
EDUCATION:
2020- PhD (Art), RMIT
2019 Bachelor of Arts (Fine Art) (Honours), RMIT
2017-2018 Bachelor of Arts (Fine Art), RMIT
2016 Bachelor of Creative Arts (Fine Art), La Trobe University Bendigo (First Year)
2015 Diploma of Visual Art, Bendigo TAFE
2013 The Gordon TAFE – Certificate III in Media