‘Aegis/Tailor’ consolidates a selection of actions and assets from DRM/ Daniel R. Mark’s recent choreographic, sculptural and audio experimentation into a short-form residency performance at Conduction.

A sensorial language of rubber, wax and tar (extracted biological materials) meets with camera lenses and digital artefacts (the material of visual extraction), through acts of ‘tailoring’ the senses toward a mythic endgame. Conduction is stagecrafted as a site of live production, and the homoeroticised figure of the tailor enacts a secretive mutual tension within the blueprinting of publics, bodily relations, value relations, and the logics of visual perspective within image production. Monumental and fetishistic forms are created through these choreographies of tailoring/imaging. Aegis/Tailor borrows material from recent residencies with GalleryGalleryInc and Run Artist Run, as well as from WIP showings at ACMI and Out of Bounds.

DRM (Dr Daniel R Marks) is an artist and researcher based in Naarm/Melbourne, working in an interdisciplinary choreographic practice which engages intersections of imaging, the queer body and surveillance technologies. They work in a hybrid practice incorporating performance, experimental audio-visual media and sculpture. DRM completed their PhD Protagonist: A Choreography of Queer Digitiality at RMIT University School of Art in 2024 and lectures at RMIT School of Fashion & Textiles. They are affiliated with Performing Dress Lab (RMIT, Aalto University & London College of Fashion) and the Posthuman Art Network (Foreign Objekt).

$10/$20/ First Nations Free.

Light Hospitality provided.

Access: There is a 9cm step into the venue. A range of seating options available. Lower sensory space available to use. Air Filter used, and masks available. Air conditioning will be used. See full access information on our previous posts and our website. Ask any questions through DM or email conduction3011@gmail.com

Images: DRM/ Daniel R. Marks. Design: Debris Facility.

Conduction is supported by Maribyrnong City Council’s “Creative Places Program”