Marc Rees is one
of Wales’s leading exponents of contemporary performance
and installation. His innovative interdisciplinary artworks
are known for their flamboyant, humorous and often extreme
interpretations of history, culture and personal experience.
In addition to working with some of Britain’s foremost
physical theatre companies (Brith Gof, Earthfall and DV8)
and Germany’s premiere choreographers (Angela Guerreiro,
Thomas Lehmen and Tanz Compagnie Rubato) his own extensive
body of work includes the solo stage works Iddo Ef/Caligula
Disco/Gloria Days, the installation/performances The House
Project /RevolUn/Shed*light and the BBC film A Very Gladys
night.
He has lived and worked in Amsterdam, Montreal and Berlin and has initiated under
his company R.I.P.E (Rees International Projects Enterprise) several highly successful
artistic alliances with furniture designers, film makers, authors, composers
and choreographers across Europe and North America.
Rees' most recent international commissions and site-specific events include :
‘ Adain Avion’:Artist taking the lead project, Cutural Olympiad 2012; ‘For
Montain, Sand & Sea’, National Theater Wales , Barmouth 2010; ‘En
Residencia’, Teatro de la Laboral, Gijon, Spain, March 2009; 'Cambrian
Glass Collection and Cabinet', National History Museum, St Fagans, Cardiff, September
2007; 'Comfort Zone', Recontres Internationales, Paris, December 2006; 'Sx3 duet',
SINOPALE, Sinop, Turkey, August 2006; 'Vaseline Machine', VERBO, Galeria Vermehlo,
Sao Paulo, May 2006; 'Adagietto Ara Deg', 51st Venice Biennale, 2005 and Shed*light:
'Norman Behaviour', ARCO 05, Madrid, February 2005.
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