Master of Fine Art: MC266, Statement
List of works
Mark J Wilson
Born Melbourne, Australia 1976, Lives and works in Melbourne
Bricolage Show promotion videos
2016
HD video, projection, animation, lighting
Text
1920 x 1080
Collaborators: Nathan Stolz & Jeje Hung (photography & video)
Instagram: Markj_w
Bricolage Show Poster
2016
Poster, Illustrator, Indesign, text
680cm x 750cm
Graphic Designer: Anthea Smith
Various
Calm Ocean becomes Blacken Clouds
2016
Animation, Photoshop, After Effects
1920 x 1080
Web: https://markejwilson.com/
Gina – Love me, not the money
2011
Animation, coloured font, type writer sound,
Adel Ferguson article via The Age
1920 x 1080
YouTube: Mark JW Channel
Wave of emotion
2008
Music video, HD video shot on location,
Sound production
Collaborators: Ari Wagner (video) Michael Bryant (music production)
YouTube: Mark JW Channel
Butcher music video exhibition images
2010
Mixed media: projection, makeup, fashion,
Video,
Collaborations: Sally Goldner (featured extra), Mia’Kate Russell (make up), Gavin D. Andrews (stills), (editor) Jonathon Ainscough (featured extra), Jonathon Keith Kirk (fashion design)
Altona North
Whitewash Head Shots
2008
Photos, cardboard, glue, acrylic paint
Mixed sizes
Altona North
Butcher music video
2010
Mixed media: projection, makeup, fashion,
Video,
Collaborations: Sally Goldner (featured extra), Emily Barr (DOP), Mia’Kate Russell (make up), Gavin D. Andrews (stills), Gavin Emmanuel (editor) Mikey Catalano (editor) Jonathon Ainscough (featured extra), Jonathon Keith Kirk (fashion design)
Web: https://markejwilson.com/
Current work
My current work in development is titled Bricolage Show: supported by RMIT Link Arts and funded by the Upstaged program, presented in Story Hall: Green Brain on the 10th, 11th and 12th of November. This multiple media work features video, projections, sound, and performance. This installation piece is presented in a Promenade theatre style and draws on the art practice of Bricolage to fuse elements that include video, performance, photography, music, animation to create a narrative addressing the fragmentation of online and offline self/identity.
Artistic concern future work description and reflection
My future work will continue to turn sharply towards the lived experience of online/offline identity, sexuality, gender & news media. The work will dissect the global penetration of online self and then seek to challenge its authenticity. The viewer is asked to deeply question aspects that we all perform in curating and forming our online identities.
This will be achieved by employing bricolage and promenade styles that interweave multiple media elements video, photography, animation, performance sounds and monologues. This future work rests on the edge of the surreal where Image, text and music are refashioned in a remix style to create new narrative.
Issues to be addressed
- Design & construct a transportable steal sculpture (platform & setting)
- Installation into various site specific locations using visual projections and soundscapes (video, animation, photography, text, monologues)
- Site specific performance (various locations) incorporating multiple media
- Challenge technical performance conventions (expose technical elements to the viewer)
- Social content: sexuality, gay male gender roles verse transgender identity, news media, online curation
