Mark Durkan : Dublin, Ireland Residence Period: December 2010
url: http://extrasoupdishes.tumblr.com/
Mark has a wide ranging practice from sculpture, to performance, to netart and shows confidence in all of these vocabularies. Particularly in his performance work he has been exploring the line between one’s own being and that of an imaginary character, how one is able to transform oneself through taking on a character in a performative context but how the line between persona and seld can “bleed” into one another to a point where they can not be extricated. He has particulary engaged in this discourse through participation in an event organized by performance artist Brody Condon in LA.
Mark is not only an artist but also a curator and arts consultant. He is involved in a number of large scale projects in Ireland and runs his own creative arts organization. He cast an insightful and critical eye over the art scene in Tokyo, offering his own informed response to what he has been met with here. Taking on the stimulation from the city and its creative channels Mark has also pursued a number of artistic experiments using the simple materials he finds around him.
3331 Artist & Curator Residence Program 