DRM

Residency :: 

23 July - 17 August 

2024

Performance :: 

8 August 8pm

 Conscript is a short-term open studio residency project by artist-researcher-choreographer DRM (Dr Daniel R Marks).

Conscript continues DRM’s investigations into aesthetics which emerge from formal and symbol regression. Within the residency model, DRM will explore systems of vision via Renaissance logics of oil painting and single-point perspective, alongside references to archaeologies of currency and to the use of fluid dynamics in economic simulation, to seek queer and material fetishisms at the “vanishing point” of aesthetic-ideological self-reference.

Delivered as an exhibition and ongoing rehearsal of artistic and choreographic research, Conscript will include a one-night showing of in-progress material generated within the residency.

DRM (Dr Daniel R Marks) is an artist, performer and researcher based in Naarm/Melbourne, working with interdisciplinary modes of choreographic practice which engage surveillance, digitality, and queerness. Their interest in choreography is as a means toward exploring the material complexities where body and agency meet with digitised systems of representation and control. They work primarily in a hybrid practice incorporating live performance art, virtual and screen-based formats, sculpture (including wearable sculpture and installation), experimental text, and sound composition.

DRM completed their PhD at RMIT University School of Art in 2024 and have worked as an educator in both RMIT School of Art and School of Fashion & Textiles. They have shown their work with Temperance Hall, Liquid Architecture, RMIT Gallery, Midsumma Festival, Foreign Objekt, and several artist-run initiatives in Naarm/Melbourne, alongside performing in public programs at NGV Australia and ACCA. They are affiliated with the Performing Dress Lab (RMIT, Aalto University & London College of Fashion), an inter-institutional research group studying relationships between performance and fashion, and the Posthuman Art Network (Foreign Objekt), a global collective of artists and researchers investigating posthuman theory within artistic practice. They are also a current research/artist resident at ACMI X.