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Marc Atkins

Biography

Marc Atkins is an English artist, photographer, videographer and poet. Atkins has lived and worked for many years in London, but has also spend extended periods of time in Rome, Detroit, New York, Warsaw and Paris.

Atkins's web-site: http://www.marcatkins.com/info/cv.html

"Through photography, video, film, drawing and text, I have looked to make manifest the characters and elements I see occupying the place, the pause, the precise point of crossover between states of existence. It is usually in the redolence of a room or the multi layering of the city that I find this field of the invisible and the latent forms which become my images. These images can be seen as the lost frames of a film, elements of an endless performance, or the few discovered pages of a missing text, each suggesting a story which continues beyond its borders. This place is a house with many floors, from its countless rooms emerge figures of disturbing and sensual character, each acting out their distinctive cycle, its myriad windows look out onto cities and landscapes that are at once elegant and desolate. These are images located below the surface of immediate visibility, they are images of subjective states."

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Bibliography

Solo Books

The Logic of the Stairwell, prose poetry (Shearsman)
Warszawa, photography, with texts by T. Pioro and A. Sosnowski (Wig-press)
Thirteen, photography, with texts by thirteen writers (Do-Not Press)
Liquid City, photography, with texts by Iain Sinclair (Reaktion)
The Teratologists, photography and text (Panoptika).

Work anthologised in:

The World's Top Photographers: Nudes, also inc. Bourdin, Rankin, Rheims (RotoVision)
The Nude, also inc. Bill Brant & Ralph Gibson (RotoVision).

Catalogues

Interstice, solo exhibition catalogue (British Council)
Faces of Mathematics, solo photography (Panoptika)
Equivalents, solo exhibition catalogue (Gallery FF)
FABS: 1999-2002, catalogue of Fabs Association, Poland (Fabs)
Royal College of Art Fashion Catalogue, joint photography (RCA)
The Society of Scottish Artists exhibition catalogue
Winter-New York exhibition/performance catalogue

Film and videography (selection):

'Fascia in Do Minore' (music by Stefano Guzzetti) 6:07 2012
'Underlie_01' 23:29 2011
'Underlie_02' 31:13 2011
'Underlie_04' 30:00 2011
'Pro Tempore' 31:20 2010
'The Unchanging Day' 30:21 2009
'Between States' 4:19 2009
'More Dark Than Matter' 15:19 2009
'Delivering the Device' (collab. Rod Mengham) 1:50 2009
'Without' 4:41 2008
'Impasse' 7:37 2008
'Une' 0:55 2008
'Quiet, This Still Air' 6:20 2007
'Your Concrete Arms' 5:45 2007
'A Place of Futures' 6:20 2005
'Orphée' 3:50 2004
'Scratch' 50:00 2003
'Space, space' 1:30:00, 2003
'Sounding Pole' (collab. Rod Mengham) 4:00 2003
'A Moments Tribute' (collab. Rod Mengham) 6:00 2002
'Bal' (collab. Rod Mengham) 18:02 2001
'Work in the Fields' (collab. Rod Mengham) 4:00 2001
'Such Days' 12:04 1999
'The Second Floor' 27:00 1999
'Rodinsky's Mirror', 30:00 1999
'The Claybury Inferno', 60:00 1999
'Through the Corner of an Eye' 48:03 1998
'Et Seqq.', 12:00 1995
'Trace', 14:06 1995
'Chemical Wedding', 10:06 1994
'Kissing Echo', 2:07 1994
'Ghost Muse', 7:00 1994
'A Further Silence', 10:05 1993
'Apply as time goes', 8:07 1993

Sound works:

'Cast Multitrack 0111' 1:27 2012
'xxcc 34 Random Piano' 29:23 2012
'Survey01' 9:06 2012
'SlowFall310212 2' 3:40 2011
'L'air d'octobre' 4:51 2010
'Street Machine' 22:20 2010
'Short Noise' 5:45 2009
'Last Days' 15:00 2004
'London Dec 29 1998' 16:00 2004
'Chemical Wedding' 5:00 2003
'Silo' 7:00 2002
'Equation' 5:00 2001
'Manifest' - Un Phantoms CD 6:00 1999
'Un Phantoms'-Un Phantoms CD 20:00 1998
'Logos People', 10:00 1996
'Outsiders I, II & III', each 6:00 1995
'A line in the Dust', 20:00 1994
'Ghost', 7:00 1994
'The Peopled Streets', 8:00 1994

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