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Carreer: 1982-1986: various exhibitions with pictures and mechanical moving objects; super-8, narrow-film installations. 1986-1996: musician with various bands (PARK, Blu Dolphin, etc); projects (dance performance, sound-studio works, multimedia rock concerts, various projects subsidised by the city of Zurich). 1996-2001: various exhibitions and contract works with photography, video installations, mechanical objects. 1998: further training in New York with the video artist GMDthree. 2001: education as media designer and multimedia producer (SAE). 2001 onwards: increasing number of exhibitions and video objects.

The content of Marck`s video sculptures always move on a screen that began life as a cathode ray monitor or a LCD. The screen cladding is dismantled, newly created or rebuilt. A central part of the process is that the cladding always corresponds to the content and thereby becomes a statement. In the "Woman Case"for instance the monitors have been reconstructed into a box in which a woman is locked. Marck`s video sculptures demonstrate how a man sees and reflects on the female world and the patterns of the relationships between men and women. The man locks women up in a chest or lies them in baths in which the women make themselves at home in the hope that the casing or the sphere of life around them will at some point dissolve without their own actions.

There is nothing unplanned or coincidental in Marck`s video sculptures. He starts out with an idea of the sculptures content and then begins the construction. Therefore there is nothing playful about his use of technology, rather the electronics become a means to and end, i.e. the mediator of content.
This is the precisely the same process with the casing, the packaging of the content. In the 1990s Marck constructed video installations for clubs in Zurich. The content of these installations quickly became rigid and uninteresting for him, triggering his search for how to dissolve the boundaries between content and cladding. In the meantime he has torn down the boundaries between content and medium. The medium, the cladding of the sculpture, has itself become the content and the message.

The purchase of Marck`s video sculptures gives the confrontation with them a further dimension. From the date of sale the owner has approximately 15 years in which to reach a decision. The screen will work for about 15 years after purchase before it will have to undergo a partial repair. Therefore it depends on the buyer whether they let the woman float for a further 15 years in the bath....

PUBLIC COLLECTIONS:
Boston Museum / USA
Grande Finale Museum / France
Dosan Artcenter / Korea
Artcenter Istanbul / Turkey