Marcus Williams - Curator for 'The Idiot'
I was born in Auckland and live there now with my partner of 20 years and our two children.
I have a cross-disciplinary art practice working in a wide range of media with a strong emphasis in lense based media. I have an enduring interest in collaboration and have collaborated with my wife over many years as well as other artists in all sorts of different ways. Our children are now integrated into the collaborative process and we have made photographs, videos, animations, drawings and performances.
My conceptual interests are tied up with this notion of ‘creative’ collaboration in as much as it is concerned with the hopelessly entangled nature of what Julia Kristeva calls the ‘social contract’ and the immediacy of lived experience; for example, love. Put another way, I am interested in the uncertain dimension of human behaviour which lies somewhere between social and mediated experience; the process by which all that is biological or ‘natural’ (that wonderfully problematic word), is ‘processed and codified into a highly complex system of signs. This is one of the reasons that I am so interested in FFC and it is the aspect of curatorial practice which attracts me; the possibility of facilitating collaborative projects.
I have a cross-disciplinary art practice working in a wide range of media with a strong emphasis in lense based media. I have an enduring interest in collaboration and have collaborated with my wife over many years as well as other artists in all sorts of different ways. Our children are now integrated into the collaborative process and we have made photographs, videos, animations, drawings and performances.
My conceptual interests are tied up with this notion of ‘creative’ collaboration in as much as it is concerned with the hopelessly entangled nature of what Julia Kristeva calls the ‘social contract’ and the immediacy of lived experience; for example, love. Put another way, I am interested in the uncertain dimension of human behaviour which lies somewhere between social and mediated experience; the process by which all that is biological or ‘natural’ (that wonderfully problematic word), is ‘processed and codified into a highly complex system of signs. This is one of the reasons that I am so interested in FFC and it is the aspect of curatorial practice which attracts me; the possibility of facilitating collaborative projects.
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