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About Michael St.Mark

Conceptual / experimental multi-discipline artist, writer and photographer. Art influencer and founder of London Dada, recalling Dada's original aims and principles as envisaged by it's founder Hugo Ball. Eschews the often politically-motivated taboo on expressions of critical thought within art. Admiring Duchamp in going beyond the seemingly endless infatuation with the ' pretty picture' retinal and instead refusing to accept the standards and practices of an established corrupt art world and creatively stifling conventions that are still considered essential to attain fame and financial success: refusing to repeat himself or to develop one recognizable style to placate the commercial needs of the market.

Work 75; Bastion of Pretentious Pseuds / The Glass Ceiling Factory

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Bastion of Pretentious Pseuds ( Glass Ceiling Factory )
National Theatre South Bank, London
c. 2005 Michael St.Mark

A contemporary playwright as perceptive and brilliant as Shakespeare, – if he failed to brown-nose his way  in there; would be ignored his entire lifetime.

We give you Kevin Spacey, more or less running the Old Vic for years.
.The only way for new talent to ” get on” was for ” him to get on you”.

His is not an isolated case – throughout the arts that is more or less the only way up for those without connections or serious money; huge talent or not.