- Marcos Lutyens
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Marcos Lutyens (born 1964) is an interdisciplinary artist who uses cognitive techniques such as hypnosis and technology such as robotics and sensors to create art performances, sculptures & installations.
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Life and work
Lutyens' work centers on explorations of the unknown within, also known as the unconscious mind, as well as the unknown beyond our normal sensory perceptions. He has exhibited and performed in various museums, galleries and locations around the world, including at the GSK/Royal Academy, London, LACMA, Los Angeles and the Centre Pompidou, Paris. He studied social sciences at Edinburgh University, but like his celebrated relative Sir Edwin Lutyens is largely self taught, adapting to a range of rapidly emerging disciplines and techniques.
CO2morrow (2009–2010)
This sculpture, in collaboration with Alessandro Marianantoni, was commissioned by the National Trust and was sponsored in addition by Siemens and Morley Composites. CO2morrow is an 8.5 meter in diameter sculpture that displays data relating to atmospheric levels of CO2 across its surface. The sculpture was first exhibited at eARTh: Art of a changing world, at the GSK/Royal Academy of Arts, London: Co-curated by Kathleen Soriano, Director of Exhibitions at the Royal Academy, David Buckland, Director of Cape Farewell, and, Edith Devaney, Royal Academy.[1][2] The installation has also been on exhibit at Seaton Delaval Hall. This project has been at the forefront of discussions related to Climategate on whether climate change is actually happening or not. Regardless of the fact that in the June 2010 Newsweek issue the controversy was called a "highly orchestrated, manufactured scandal",[3] CO2morrow's goal is to shed more light on this issue as well as to push the boundaries of art, science and cognition.
Hypnotic Show (2008–2010)
A temporary social structure of engaging into cognitive acts through shared practices of art and hypnosis. This migrating performance uses the method of hypnosis conducted by Marcos Lutyens to upload artists' scenarios directly into participants' minds. The project is curated by Raimundas Malasauskas and has been performed at: Jessica Silverman Gallery, San Francisco (2008), Artists Space, NYC (2009), Kunstverein, Amsterdam (2009), Kadist Art Foundation Paris (2009), Pompidou Centre (2010) as part of Raimundas Malasauskas' Repetition Island, (2010) and Artissima, Turin. Contributing artists include: Carey Young, Etienne Chambaud and Robert Barry.
McSyn (2004)
A work involving synesthesia and cross-modal architectural portraiture, presented at Ars Electronica and published in Michael Shamiyeh's bestselling book: What people want.[4] One of the volunteers involved was Colleen Silva who was singled out by Richard Cytowic due to her unique synesthetic dispositions.[5]
Additional projects
Lutyens has collaborated with several leading investigators of art and consciousness including Marcos Novak, particularly on the project Eduction: the alien within,[6][7] with Matt Mullican on projects in the Anton Kern Gallery, NYC, LACE, Los Angeles and Gallery Klosterfelde, Berlin, with Ron Athey and Professor Vilayanur S. Ramachandran working with hypnosis and synesthesia. Lutyens' projects sometimes involve collectives and he has worked with diverse groups and associations such as US/Mexico border migrants, the Muxhe in Oaxaca (the Bestiary Project), Birmingham architects (as part of the Fierce! Festival) and at-risk youth in Los Angeles (HeArt Project). He has also worked in production design projects most notably with the film maker and artist Bruno Aveillan.
References
- ^ Di Brina, Anna Maria, New Statesman, December 2009
- ^ Pearlman, Hugh. Sunday Times, November 30, 2009.
- ^ "Newspapers retract Climategate claims but damage still done". The Gaggle (Newsweek). June 25, 2010.
- ^ Shamiyeh, Michael. What People Want. Birkhauser, 2004,p. 358
- ^ Cytowik, Richard E. Eagleman, DavidM. Wednesday Is Indigo Blue: Discovering the Brain of Synesthesia, The MIT press 2009 p.114
- ^ Palumbo, Maria Luisa. Archittetura Supereva Extended Artcile, 2001
- ^ Palumbo, Maria Luisa. Archittetura Supereva Interview Artcile, 2001
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Categories:- Art in the Greater Los Angeles Area
- 1964 births
- Living people
- Installation artists
- Contemporary artists
- Multimedia artists
- British multimedia artists
- Performance artists
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