OTHER GEOGRAPHIES WITH BILLY MARK

 

OTHER GEOGRAPHIES WITH BILLY MARK

In a time of limited physical mobility, Billy Mark wrestles with other spatial relations:

How can someone be so close and so far away?
How can someone so far away be so close?
What are the spatial relations of spirit?
What does a spiritual geography look like?

This 5-part video series is available below and on Youtube along with an Artist Interview from Sidewalk Detroit’s Executive Director, Ryan Myers-Johnson.

Billy Mark is an experimental artist whose work is rooted in the art of poetic freestyle. Based in poetry, his work extends to areas of music, theater, sculpture, movement and installation. A graduate of the California Institute of the Arts, his writing has been published in The Guidebook of Alternative Nows and SEEN magazine. His work has been performed at REDCAT (Los Angeles), Spiel Festival (Austria), Detroit Contemporary, and Bushwick Open Studios (New York). For more information visit Billy Mark.

As a part of his Artist Residency, Billy created a playlist of songs that he loves. You can listen to that spotify playlist here.

This moody, avante-garde playlist includes songs from Toro y Moi, Fishmans, and Miles Davis.

 
 
 
Ryan Johnson