Myf Mars
Deboxing
2019
dimensions variable, duration: 00:09:06
single channel video and 6 channel sound, cardboard, tape, contact mics
STATEMENT:
Sometimes I feel overwhelmed by space, as though I am drowning in my environment. Sometimes I dissociate and float above my self, an observer of my actions. Sometimes everyone around me moves in slow motion, and somehow, I still can’t keep up. I have always felt an absurd combination of fascination with and disconnect from my own bodily experience. This dissonance is the driving force behind most of my work. Never satisfied with being permanently confined to a body with a rigid location in space and time, it makes sense that there is a growing absence of traditional art objects in my practice. Once I wished I could upload my consciousness to the cloud and be done with the material world forever. Now I’m interested in exploring the relationship between our inner and outer worlds, by focusing on the physicality of feelings and the potential of small interventions to disturb, dislocate and disorient. I make things for the space between digital and analogue, psychic and physical, personal and universal, experiential and theoretical.
BIO:
Myf Mars is an Australian artist based in Austin, TX, working across sculpture, installation, performance, video and digital media. Mars is currently studying at UT Austin after a decade of self-directed art education in New York City. She has participated in Dark MOFO (2017), Performa NYC (2015) and the Window Project at the New Museum (2013), as well as various exhibitions in New York, Toronto, Austin, Sydney and Hobart. Mars was the recipient of the Jennifer Tune Jorns Endowed Scholarship in Art at UT Austin (2019) and the UTAS Toshiba Golf Day Prize (2018) and has had video work selected for public programming at The Loop in Hobart (2018).