Category: Body Modification

Kate Bornstein, Feast of Fun (podcast)

Posted on by hausofmarsian in Art Institute of Chicago, Body Modification, Chicago, Comedy, Fausto Ferños, interview, LGBT, Marc Felion, Marsian De Lellis, Michael Jackson, Performance, Performance Art, Podcast, Puppetry, Puppets, Spoken Word, Theater, Voice

On September 18th, 2006, Kate Bornstein appeared on the Chicago-based LGBTQ comedy podcast, Feast of Fun Podcast #390 – A Fate Better Than Death,  to discuss their book, Hello Cruel World: 101 Alternatives to Suicide for Teens, Freaks and Other Outlaws. In talking with Fausto Ferños and Marc Felion, they briefly discussed my performance work.

“Marsian hails back to a long tradition of artistic fools, who twist the culture around well beyond the regular artistic way of twisting culture around to a point of impossibility and absurdity that makes you rethink all of reality”

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Neverland Ranch, Pawtucket, (performance)

Posted on by hausofmarsian in Abby Saunders, Acting, Addiction, Biopic, Blood from a Turnip, Body Modification, Comedy, Cut Outs, Design, Fabrication, Gamm Theatre, Jen Swain, Marsian De Lellis, Michael Jackson, Object Theatre, Pawtucket, RI, Performance, Performance Art, performing objects, Perishable Theatre, Plastic Surgery, Providence, Puppetry, Puppets, Table Top Puppetry, The Adventures of Michael Jackson and the Animals of Neverland Ranch, Theater, Toy Theatre, Violence
©2004 Marsian De Lellis
©2004 Marsian De Lellis

On September 20th, 2004, I performed The Adventures of Michael Jackson and the Animals of Neverland Ranch at Gamm Theatre in Pawtucket, Rhode Island. The performance was as part of  Lymphomania, an evening of vaudeville, variety, and live music to benefit artist, Jen Swain who was battling lymphatic cancer.
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Golden Lotus, Providence (puppet design, performer)

Posted on by hausofmarsian in Acting, Body Modification, Brown University, Design, Dolls, Drama, Fabrication, Jen Swain, Marsian De Lellis, Performance, Providence, Puppetry, Puppets, Rites & Reason Theatre, Theater

On November 14th, 2002, The Golden Lotus, a play about foot-binding in ancient China and one woman’s courage to defy tradition, written by Frances Ya-Chu Cowhig opened at Rites and Reason Theatre in Providence. In the Golden Lotus, I designed and fabricated bound feet puppets in collaboration with costume designer Cynthia Meeks and performed in the role of the villain,  the town foot binder.

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King of Pop’s New Clothes, Chicago (performance, video art)

Posted on by hausofmarsian in Acting, Addiction, Art, Biopic, Body Modification, Chicago, Comedy, Dance, Design, Dolls, Fabrication, Fausto Ferños, Kathleen O'Shea, Marsian De Lellis, Michael Jackson, Object Theatre, Performance, Performance Art, Plastic Surgery, Radical Faeries, Randolph Street Gallery, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Song, Surrealism, Video
King of Pop's New Clothes, 1997
King of Pop’s New Clothes, 1997

On April 17th, 1997, I performed The King of Pop’s New Clothes in the Columbus Drive Performance Space at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.  In King of Pop’s New Clothes, a reclusive pops star’s drug-fueled attempts at being loved through personal reinvention go horribly wrong when his public and private lives collide. The King of Pop’s New Clothes existed as both a live performance with projected video art and as a video art piece that screened at Randolph Street Gallery.

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Art of Leadership (award)

Posted on by hausofmarsian in Art, Body Modification, Chicago, Curatorial, Dance, Design, Dollhouses, Dolls, Early Puppets, Fabrication, Figurines, Film, Gallery, Harm Reduction, Installation, Marionettes, Marsian De Lellis, Michael Jackson, Object Theatre, Painting, Performance, Performance Art, performing objects, Pharmaceuticals, Photographs, Plastic Surgery, Puppetry, Puppets, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Sculpture, Slides, Table Top Puppetry, Toy Theatre, Video, Written

In 1996, I was the recipient of the Art of Leadership award at The School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC), where I was pursuing my BFA in studio arts. At SAIC, I studied a broad range of art including performance, puppetry, video art, sound art, site-specific installation, photography (analogue and digital), sculpture, drawing, painting, creative writing, and art history, theory, and criticism.

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