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Public Disturbance HB Series: Take 1, Take 2, Take 3 - 2010
Single-channel video in 3 parts / Three-channel video installation
16 minutes, 19 seconds
Edition of 5 + 1 AP
Videographer: Nelson Rogers, Sound Engineer: David Best

Edited video from a live 4-hour public performance Public Disturbance where professional actors were hired to pose as couples and reenact various domestic based arguments from movie scipts in a public setting. The actual performance included 3 separate actor-couples each performing different fight scenes. In this video version of the work I focus on just one couple and follow their re-occurring arguement in various locations, over the course of the evening.

Michael Hansen: "Opening: Kelly Mark" on Vimeo for ArtSync, March 4, 2011
Gabrielle Moser: "Kelly Mark, Diaz Contemporary". Esse Magazine. June 2011
Bill Clarke: "Kelly Mark: Diaz Contemporary". Art News. May 2011
Caroline Andrieux: "Kelly Mark: Public Disturbance". (exhibition essay) Montreal PQ, Darling Foundry 2011
Blake Gopnick: “Kelly Mark Makes a Public Disturbance”. ArtNetNews. September 12, 2014

Exhibition History:
2010 The Power Plant Contemporary Art Gallery (Toronto ON); 2011 The Darling Foundry (Montreal PQ); 2011 Saint Mary's University Art Gallery (Halifax NS); 2012 Robert McLaughlin Gallery (Oshawa ON); 2012/13 MASS MoCA. (North Adams Massachusetts US); 2014 Confederation Centre Art Gallery (Charlottetown PEI); 2015 The Glenbow Art Gallery (Calgary AB);