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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:
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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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En Residencia
Laboral Ciudad de la Cultura, Gijon, Spain,
Feb 28 – March 8, 2009
En Residencia was conceived and curated by Marc
Rees in collaboration with creative partner and
dramaturge Benedict Anderson. En Residencia was
a series of performative and spatial works created
by twenty visual and movement based artists from
Wales and Asturias under the artistic direction
of Rees.
This site-specific installation was the result
of a two-week, on-site laboratory where the participating
group of international artists responded to the
interior and exterior spaces of a semi derelict
area of Laboral Ciudad de la Cultura, Gijon, Spain.
The artistic interventions drew their main stimulus
from the unique environments and associated memorabilia;
the archive material; the abandoned artefacts and
the extraordinary history of the location. The
mid-south wing of the Laboral complex remained
un-renovated and many of the spaces (classrooms,
stairwells, offices, antechambers and landings
etc.) were strewn with discarded objects and hundreds
of pieces of furniture found in various configurations,
both ordered and scattered.
These spaces were allocated to the artists by Rees
and Anderson to re-imagine and re-animate in order
to create En Residencia.
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Participating
Artists
Holly Davey, Anthony Shapland, Richard Morgan, Benedict
Anderson, Tanja Råman, John Collingswood, Cai
Tomos, Simon Whitehead, John Rowley, Montse Penela,
Monica Garcia, Pelayo Varela, Nel Amaro, Fiumfoto,
Avelino Sala, Melville Mitchell, Marc Rees , Orson
San Pedro
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