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Image credit: Lloyd Wong Unfinished, by Lesley Loski Chan (2025)
Justice (After Margaret Dragu) was first curated by the 7a-11d International Festival of Performance Art, Toronto in 2016. This video is documentation from that live performance. Justice is an homage not only to those of us who seek freedom from arcane systems of abusive power, but also to artist Margaret Dragu and her… ⊕
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… ⊕
PORN (Glow Video Installation Series) - 2005Multi-channel video installation. 15 minutes looped, silentCRT televisions, dvd player, RF modulator, RCA cable, coaxial cables & splitters(Installation dimensions & configurations vary upon available tv's and size of exhibition space).Part of the Glow Video Series in which I… ⊕
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… ⊕