First and Next
The first impulse is to surrender the space. To make room. To not fill white gallery walls with more work by a white person. The next impulse is to take
Author: Anne de Marcken
Hold Up
Plans for reinstallation of TRP must stop. Everything must stop. There is no way–no way–the body refuses–the air refuses–to occupy any space in the ordinary way. The body refuses. The
Space, Place & Site Specific Work
As I consider how to install TRP at Feast, I am thinking about the nature of space and place. I can equate space with the unrepresented world–everything in the world
The Redaction Project Closes
I spent the weekend packing up index cards and patching tiny map pin holes. Salon Refu is restored to emptiness. The criss-crossing wires of The Archive no longer contain the
Redaction Project Opens!
Three months of intense production, and The Redaction Project is finally installed and open at Salon Refu. Contact for information about purchasing installation artifacts or the show catalogue.
Rewrite
Spent the last five days sequestered in the Oysterville cottage of a dear and generous friend who fended off the world while I completed a polish of The Warmest Season
Ups & Downs
The island location that seemed so right has gone wrong. Alas, the good folks of the Anderson Island Historical Society have decided that it’s bad timing for us to use
Islanders
Islanders is a feature film scheduled for production late summer of 2015. Written and directed by Anne de Marcken, it is her first feature-length project since the award-winning and groundbreaking
Things I like: Connie to the Wonnie
This is the first of what I hope will be a regular series of posts that feature things I find online that I like. Connie Sun’s daily cartoon practice: Connie
summer tradition
BRIGHT LIGHTS, LI’L TOWN from Anne de Marcken on Vimeo. Tradition is an effort. It crowds the schedule. It feels like “thou shalt.” You consider being sick. You worry about