Contours
2019
The planet is a constructed environment: A space that has been defined for, created by, and scaled to the image of the human species. Contours points out this human exceptionalism and meditates on what it would mean to shift this gaze upon the world. Through both installed projected video and printed imagery, Contours conducts a visual cacophony of de-familiarization, abstraction, and legible illegibility of image and language. In an effort to craft a vision of a more inclusive future both ecologically and socially, the images in Contours suggest a world that privileges not only the human but the other-than-human as well.
Additional images available upon request.
Excerpts from Contours
Projected 4k Video (Color, Sound)
Dimensions Variable
12 min 3 sec, 2019
Written, directed, and produced by Mark Dorf
Music in collaboration with Cory Zimmerman
Voice Over #1 spoken by Wyne Veen
Voice Over #2 spoken by Mark Dorf
Selected Exhibitions / Screenings
2023 Honor Fraser Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2021 GetxoPhoto Festival, Getxo, ES
2021 VDrome.org
2020 Houston Center For Photography, Houston, TX
2020 Somerset House, London, UK (Canceled due to Covid-19)
Selected Publications
2023 Kaohsiung Museum of Fine Arts Taiwan
2022 IMA Magazine - Issue No. 37
2021 Getxo Photo Festival Catalog
2020 Foam Magazine
2020 Keeper of the Hearth
2020 Fusebox Festival Catalog
Installation View
Referent, Double Paneled Archival Dye Sublimation Print, 40″ x 60″, 2019
Scaled to Gesture, Archival Dye Sublimation Print, 20″ x 25″
Reflexive, Two Panels, Archival Dye Sublimation Print, 25″ x 20″, 2019
Projection, Archival Dye Sublimation Print, 32″ x 40″, 2019
Spectrum, Eight Panels, Archival Dye Sublimation Print, 20″ x 16″, 2019
Spectrum (Detail)
View II, Double Paneled Archival Dye Sublimation Print, 40″ x 32″, 2020
Lenny, Archival Dye Sublimation Print, 40″ x 32″, 2020
Projection featured on the cover of Foam Magazine Issue No. 56