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Image credit: Lloyd Wong Unfinished, by Lesley Loski Chan (2025)
Footage was shot on June 28, 2021, and records the various actions that build to a single performance. The work dialogues with the performance for camera tradition, but it is clearly edited and narratively stylized. There is no direct audience. The main recorded action is me sitting on bags of ice for several hours while they… ⊕
Part of the Glow video series in which I use television content, in this case a hard core porn movie, as a simple source material for reflected light installations. Series includes: Horror, Suspense, Romance, Porn, Kung-Fu & also Commercial Space, which was made at a later date.
This work utilizes text, which I had been playing with since 1996. The text is a stream of consciousness type list of things that “I really should” do, such as “pay back my student loan,” “drink more water,” “take more chances,” “clean out the litter box,” etc…… ⊕
“Strung between the twin poles of pathos and irony, 108 Leyton Ave is Kelly Mark’s most personally revealing work to date. It is built from common expressions relating to 'everything' and 'nothing' and was developed over a period while Mark was living in the social isolation of a quasi-suburban limbo on… ⊕
Edited video from a live 4-hour public performance Public Disturbance where professional actors were hired to pose as couples and reenact various domestic based arguments from movie scripts in a public setting. The actual performance included three separate actor-couples each performing different fight scenes. In this video… ⊕