Artist Talk — Mark Alice Durant

Episode Summary

Creating his own adventure, Mark Alice Durant forges a path of art and life led by passion and curiosity. A writer, publisher, photographer, performer and professor, he contributes, collaborates and amplifies expansive voices that consider the transitory relationships of culture. 

In this conversation, Mark discusses, among other things:

  • Performance art – specifically Men of the World

  • Image gestures – the body as a sculptural vehicle

  • Pre-visualization

  • Perspective and context

  • Bringing a feminist perspective to one’s work

  • Giving oneself permission, endlessly

  • Photo as phenomenon

  • Photography’s marginal history

  • Generative collaborations

Artist Resources/Inspiration

Artists

Spaulding Gray

Yoko Ono

Joseph Bueys

Karen Finley

Carolee Schneeman

Ana Mendieta

Lynne Tillman

Klea McKenna

Media

Winter of Artiface by Anaïs Nin

Notes on Ted Serios

Essay on Man of the World

Other

Gunet Abraham

MacDowell Visual Arts Residency

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