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Works:
EOI 2018 ++
  1. Translation of lost images
  2. What did you say?
  3. Please, have a seat
  4. Around what is almost (...)
  5. Thirty-one inches
  6. Construir habitando
  7. To washing machines
  8. Sinking in the middle


Collaborations:
EOI 2019 ++
  1. Zero + Pines
  2. Underwater performance
  3. The same but not the same
  4. Monoprints
  5. Waste Authority Collective


— Hello!

I am an artist working on personal and comissioned projects, more focused on video, performance and text.

I am particularly interested in projects involving cross- disciplinary approaches, writing, or mediums in between, so if this is you, let’s chat.

Contact︎
Mark

Waste Authority Collective
Performance, video, text, workshop
Collective

Waste Authority is a collective dedicated to the collection, examination and creative reimagining of cultural waste. We use a collaborative, experimental approach to writing as our main tool to compost the rotting but nutritious leftovers of our experiments. We write scripts, make videos, perform together, and run workshops that expand this composting methodology, opening our research to social practitioners where possible. In doing so we ask, what unexpected objects can we generate through the relinquishment of individual authorship?

Waste Authority Collective was founded in 2021 by Patrick O’Neill, Kevin Siwoff and Anita Marante.



Film stills from the video ‘The Institution Cultures Itself in Us’, 12’42”.
 

The expanded landscape of the contemporary cultural institution is an assemblage of heterogeneous object-practices. These objects are both material and immaterial. They can be viewed, touched, smelled, stored, ingested, inhabited, and valued. But they are also functions: Labour practices, health and safety regulations, in/ex-clusions, historical  fabulations and cultural appropriations. In a time of ongoing social and environmental  crisis, we consider the urgency for which each of these objects must be re-evaluated,  discarded, composted, and regenerated to form a new landscape assemblage. Like a  healthy sourdough culture, one must discard some parts in order to keep it alive and  growing, but the waste-matter itself has potential for nourishment.



Film stills from the video ‘Office or Refunds’, 10’20”.


Our areas of inquiry emerge from collaborative speculative fictioning. ‘In The Institution Cultures Itself in Us’, we begin with an interview between museum administrators, and then shift into the non-human register of three fish in the museum’s collection, criticizing institutions from the point of view of objects that inhabit it, from archives to the museum’s coffee shop. In ‘Office of Refunds’, we act as a customer service team responding for the imaginary Ministry of Financial Ruin, inspired by real examples of financial crimes and poor labour practices. In the making of the fiction, explored through video and fake documents, we adopt the apologetic and pleasing language of companies to confuse or parody notions of internal and external value, time cost, and terrestrial borders.


Letters from ‘Ministry of Financial Ruin’, by Waste Authority with Isaac Azzopardi










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