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Object of Her Affection, Automata (reading)

Posted on August 11, 2013August 1, 2019 by hausofmarsian in Animism, Automata, Biopic, Comedy, Janie Geiser, LA, Los Angeles, Marsian De Lellis, Object of Her Affection, Object Sexuality, Object Sexuals, Object Theatre, Performance Art, Puppetry, Puppets, Ronnie Burkett, Spoken Word, Susan Simpson, Written

Marsian De Lellis, 2013, Photo: Gina Marie Napolitan

On August 11th, 2013, Automata hosted a private reading of the script for Object of Her Affection,

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New Urbanite, Baltimore (interview)

Posted on April 27, 2011August 15, 2019 by hausofmarsian in Animism, Art, Fudgie's Death, Growing Up Linda, interview, Joel Egger, Marsian De Lellis, Object Sexuality, Object Sexuals, Performance, Performance Art, PJ McWhiskers, Press, Puppetry, Puppets, Theater, Transmodern Festival, Written

On April 27th, 2011, I appeared in “What is the Transmodern Festival?”, an article by Cara Ober for her article on the Transmodern Festival, where I was performing Fudgie’s Death.

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Object/Fetish, Storrs (Talk)

Posted on April 1, 2011January 3, 2020 by hausofmarsian in Allison de Fren, Animism, Artist Talk, Curatorial, Dolls, Figurines, Film, Janie Geiser, John Bell, Marsian De Lellis, Object Sexuality, Object Sexuals, Object/Fetish, Performance, Performance Art, performing objects, Puppetry, Puppetry and Post Dramatic Performance Conference, Puppets, Storrs, Susan Simpson, Table Top Puppetry, Theater, Toy Theatre, Uconn, UNIMA-USA, Video

Marsian De Lellis, 2011, Photo: Uconn Puppetry Department

In Friday, April 1st, 2011, I presented my artist-talk, Object/Fetish: Staging the Suspension of Disbelief in Every Day Life at the University of Connecticut in Storrs for the Puppetry and Postdramatic Performance Conference.

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Calgary Herald (interview)

Posted on March 12, 2011August 15, 2019 by hausofmarsian in (CAOS) Calgary Animated Object Society, Animism, Art, Artist Talk, Calgary, Club Sapien, Comedy, Curatorial, Dolls, Eugean Seo, Film, Fudgie's Death, Heather Henson, Hunter Wells, interview, Joel Egger, Kari Rae Seekons, Lantern Church, Lee Vargas, Live Feed, Marsian De Lellis, Object Sexuality, Object Sexuals, Object/Fetish, Performance, Performance Art, PJ McWhiskers, Plaza Theatre, Press, Puppetry, Puppets, Rachel Weir, Sean Dennie, Surrealism, Theater, Video, Xstine Cook

On March 12th, 2011, The Calgary Herald published an interview that described my work as “light years away from the child-oriented Muppets universe that Jim Henson introduced.”

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Object/Fetish, Valencia (guest teacher)

Posted on November 18, 2010November 22, 2017 by hausofmarsian in Allison de Fren, Animism, Artist Talk, CalArts, Curatorial, Dolls, Figurines, Film, Janie Geiser, John Bell, LA, Los Angeles, Marsian De Lellis, Object Sexuality, Object Sexuals, Object/Fetish, Performance, Performance Art, performing objects, Puppetry, Puppetry and Post Dramatic Performance Conference, Puppets, Susan Simpson, Table Top Puppetry, Theater, Toy Theatre, Uconn, UNIMA-USA, Video

2010-16x7-Object-Fetish-300dpi Object/Fetish Calarts

On November 18th, 2010, I was a guest teacher for Susan Simpson’s History of American Puppet Theater course at CalArts through the Cotsen Center for Puppetry and the Arts. For this class which included a mixture of graduate and undergraduate students, I presented my multi-media artist-talk, Object/Fetish: Staging the Suspension of Disbelief in Every Day Life.

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CalArts, MFA (education)

Posted on May 15, 2009October 18, 2017 by hausofmarsian in Acting, Addiction, Animism, Art, Birthday Trauma, Bride of Wildenstein - The Musical, CalArts, cantastoria, Curatorial, Cut Outs, Dance, Design, Dolls, Edinburgh Fringe, Fabrication, Figurines, Food, Fudgie's Death, Gainers and Feeders, Gallery, Growing Up Linda, Improv, Janie Geiser, Jocelyn Wildenstein, LA, Live Feed, Los Angeles, Marionettes, Marsian De Lellis, Miniatures, Object Theatre, Performance, Performance Art, performing objects, Plastic Surgery, Pop-Ups, Puppetry, Puppets, REDCAT, REDCAT Studio, Shadow Puppetry, Susan Simpson, Table Top Puppetry, Theater, Toy Theatre, Valencia, Video, Voice, Written

Growing Up Linda, design, ©2007 Marsian De Lellis — *Growing Up Linda*, design, ©2007 Marsian De Lellis

On May 15th, 2009 I earned my MFA degree from California Institute for the Arts (CalArts) in Scenic Design in the Puppetry track from the Theater School and the Cotsen Center for Puppetry and the Arts. I attended CalArts between 2006-2009 under the mentorship of Janie Geiser and Susan Simpson and developed two major productions, Growing Up Linda and Bride of Wildenstein – The Musical,.

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The Program, Chicago (installation)

Posted on September 12, 1997November 9, 2019 by hausofmarsian in Animism, Art, Chicago, Comedy, Dolls, Fabrication, Gallery 2, Installation, Kathleen O'Shea, Marsian De Lellis, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Sculpture, Sound, Surrealism

In September 1997, Kathleen O’Shea and I collaborated on The Program, an installation for Hybrid exhibition at Gallery 2 in Chicago. For the installation we created low-tech animatronic stuffed animals who converse with one another about an incident they witnessed. Hybrid was part of the the Eighth International Symposium on Electronic Art (ISEA) ’97. Continue reading “The Program, Chicago (installation)” →