Mark Melvin
(33 years old. Born in United Kingdom. Lives in: LONDON)
Central Saint Martins
I am an artist currently based in London. This year I was awarded the Nationwide Mercury Prize Art Prize with a work “Applause” which will feature on the cover of the Music Prize album for 2007. In my work I experiment with various cycles and levels of repetition, be it a discussion of the habitual and routine, investigations into recollection and memory or appropriation from popular culture. These loops and repetitions ar ...[more]
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Work of art I would like to make
I often experiment with various cycles and levels of repetition, be it a discussion of the habitual and routine, investigations into recollection and memory or the appropriation from popular culture. These loops and repetitions are always fractured by a series of interruptions and reworkings, so that although my pieces are often cycles of appropriated songs, films or words in their entirety, a linear narrative or harmony is always broken. Repetition is then key to an understanding of my practice. A temporal category, like repetition, is a subject that can be found in much of contemporary theory. Questioning around this subject is most notable in Nietzsche’s concept of ‘eternal recurrence’ , in Freud’s speculations on the repetition compulsion and the death drive , in Derrida’s discussions of ‘iterability’ and in Deleuze’s theories on repetition and difference . What can be seen from these philosophers is that the question of repetition imposes itself once the idealistic system of thought exhausts its resources and becomes blocked. If chosen for the 4 New Sensations I would like to make a new neon work on the subject of repetition employing references from popular culture from the last 25 years. In Nietzches theorising on eternal recurrence, he suggests that the universe has been recurring, and will continue to recur in the exact same self-similar form an incomprehensible and unfathomable number of times. With this in mind the work will aim to question whether we actually will learn as we develop over the next 25 years or in fact be in a state of referral. |
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My Artworks (6)
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