In a cloak of shame he will carry six bodies inside of me British Premiere
Walking backwards with beheaded men over the Atlantic Ocean, Mark Jeffery returns to NRLA (a decade after his first Platform piece at the festival) with a new site sensitive digital Performance/Installation.
Collaborating with filmmaker Lucy Baldwyn (UK), Writer and digital artist Judd Morrissey (USA) and sound artist Lori Talley (USA), this highly visual work will surround and locate itself within projections of interlaced digital text and image, where sterilized sound will bleed into itself under the train tracks above.
Over a period of 8 months, Mark has attempted to capture forces of movement and materiality from inside his body; of butchered wolves, stitching up their insides after shameful consumption of heavy stones; of mange foxes chasing wounded disorientated angels; of shattered bodies filled with dried milk falling into rain (to cleave and split open).
On each day of the festival, the work will manifest itself in 4 different phases (Installation, live close-up, performance, fading) over a 10-hour work period.
Mark is currently a visiting part-time lecturer at The School of the Art Institute of Chicago and a member of Goat Island.