Marcus Canning has pursued a varied individual and collaborative practice in the areas of sculpture, video art, theatre and festivals. In 2002 he designed the ‘Shishka-Car’ spectacle at the Adelaide Festival, and created the video work and inflatable set used in Buzz Dance Theatre’s ‘Cave’ production, which toured to Korea. In that year he curated the ‘Now You See It’ window installation exhibition served as the Director of the Artrage Festival in Perth. Prior to this he was Creative Director of the Awesome Festival’s regional programme. Scupltural projects have included a pneumatic soft sculptural work, a balloon snake, in collaboration with all children in the remote community of Kalumburu in the Kimberley. Along with artist Sohan Hayes, Canning designed and constructed SymbioticA Central Laboratory 'PC2’, which was premiered at the Biennale of Electronic Arts Perth (BEAP).
He
has an incessant and never-ending
video opus which will one day
crawl gasping into the light of day.
It is called ‘Dough-Boy’. It features
a cosmic chef deity who floats
through space and has a small
white rat living in his mouth.
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- Date written:
- 2012
- Last updated:
- 2012
