Art21 Extended Play

Mark Dion | “Neukom Vivarium”

by Wesley Miller | May 22, 2008

EXCLUSIVE: Mark Dion leads a discussion of his installation Neukom Vivarium (2006) at the Olympic Sculpture Park, Seattle.

Mark Dion’s work examines the ways in which dominant ideologies and public institutions shape our understanding of history, knowledge, and the natural world. Appropriating archeological and other scientific methods of collecting, ordering, and exhibiting objects, Dion creates artworks that question the distinctions between “objective” (“rational”) scientific methods and “subjective” (“irrational”) influences.

Mark Dion, “Neukom Vivarium,” 2006. Courtesy the Seattle Art Museum

SEE: More images, videos, and news for Mark Dion.

LEARN: Mark Dion is featured in the Season 4 (2007) episode Ecology of the Art:21—Art in the Twenty-First Century television series on PBS.

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PHOTO | Mark Dion, Neukom Vivarium, 2006. Courtesy the Seattle Art Museum.

VIDEO | Producer: Susan Sollins & Nick Ravich. Camera: John Gordon Hill. Sound: Charles Tomaras. Editor: Steven Wechsler. Artwork courtesy: Mark Dion. Thanks: Olympic Sculpture Park.

Contributor
Wesley Miller is the former curator at Art21. Miller co-curated the television series Art in the Twenty-First Century. He is also co-creator of the digital series New York Close Up.

 

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