Name: Mark Fell & Rian Treanor
Start: 2025-09-12T20:00:00+00:00
Location: Óðinsgata 2, 101 Reykjavík, Iceland

Friday, September 12th
MARK FELL & RIAN TREANOR
doors 19:30 / show 20:00
3000kr / free for workshop participants
+ John McCowen - clarinets, recorders and others tba
MARK FELL
Mark Fell is a multidisciplinary artist based in Rotherham (UK). His practice draws upon electronic music subcultures, experimental film, contemporary philosophy and radical politics. Over the past 30 years Fell’s output has grown into a significant body of work - from early electronic sound works and recorded pieces, to installation, critical texts, curatorial projects, educational systems, and choreographic performances.
In 2022 Fell published “Structure and Synthesis, The Anatomy of Practice”, with Urbanomic press, bringing together the various strands of his philosophical and political thinking into an analysis of creative practice.
In recent years Fell curated a major exhibition of sound art for V-A-C foundation Moscow “The Geometry of Now” (2017), and the Serralves Foundation Porto premiered “Intermetamorphosis" (2017), featuring a collection of new commissions as well as retrospective pieces. Recent commissions and projects include: “Protomusic#1” (2018) for Sage Gateshead, forming their flagship contribution to the Great Exhibition of the North; “Frameworks” (2018) at Palazzo delle Zattere, Venice; “Hominin” (2019) (Rewire, Den Haag/Bergen Kunsthall); the solo exhibition “The Concept of Time is Intrinsically Incoherent” (2019), Focal Point Gallery, South End on Sea; “Against Method” (2019) Pirelli Hanger Bicocca, Milan; “Time Diagram for the Nondimensional Listener” (2021) Wiener Festwochen; "Systemic Peripheralism (2022) Beaconsfield Gallery, London; "Finger Systems for Organ" (2022) Kaiser Wilhelm Gedächtniskirche, Berlin; and "Every non-empty ultra-connected compact space has a largest proper open subset" (2023) performed by explore ensemble, Centro Pecci, Prato, Italy.
The diversity and importance of Fell's practice is reflected in the range and scale of institutions that have presented his work: VAC Foundation Palazzo delle Zattere (Venice), Hong Kong National Film Archive, The Baltic (Gateshead), Museu d'Art Contemporani de Barcelona, La Casa Encendida (Madrid), Laboral (XIxon), The Institute of Contemporary Art (London), Royal Festival Hall (London), The Serpentine (London), Victoria and Albert Museum (London), Whitechapel Gallery (London), The Institute of Contemporary Art (London), Barbican (London), Raven Row (London), Seville Biennale, The Australian Centre For Moving Image (Melbourne), Artists Space (NYC), Moma (NYC), Issue Project Room (NYC), Corcoran (DC), Curtis R. Priem Experimental Media and Performing Arts Center (NY), Lampo/Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts (Chicago), Zentrum für Kunst und Medientechnologie (Karlsruhe), Pirelli Hanger Biccoca (Milan) among others. Fell's work is in the collection of the Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary (Vienna) and has been recognised by ARS Electronica (Linz). He has worked with a number of artists including: Yasunao Tone, Laurie Spiegel, Keith Fullerton Whitman, Okkyung Lee, Luke Fowler, Will Guthrie, Peter Gidal, Terre Thaemlitz, John Chowning, Ernest Edmonds, Peter Rehberg, Oren Ambarchi, Carl Michael Von Hausswolff and Mat Steel (as SND).
RIAN TREANOR
Rian Treanor re-imagines club culture, experimental art and computer music, presenting an insightful and compelling musical world of fractured and interlocking components.
Having left a vivid impression with a string of releases on The Death of Rave & Warp sub-label Arcola, his debut album 'ATAXIA' for Planet Mu in 2019 established him as both a disruptive and essential new voice in British underground club music.
His latest album 'File Under UK Metaplasm' takes inspiration from his residency at the Nyege Nyege collective's Boutique Studio in Kampala in 2018. Incorporating the high-def bass weight of his home town Sheffield with the enigmatic energy of Tanzanian Singeli and Footwork.
Using the programming language Max/MSP he develops bespoke software to explore extended rhythmic techniques and algorithmic processes, building devices that enable spontaneous pattern modulation within various collaborations, workshops, live performances and installations.
With recent live shows at the Aphex Twin Curated Warehouse Project (UK), Nyege Nyege Festival (UG), WWW (JP), Unsound (PL), CTM (DE), Le Guess Who? (NL), Mira Festival (SP), Rewire (NL), GES-2 (RU), Serralves (PT), Berghain (DE), No Bounds (UK), Cafe Oto (UK), Glasgow Centre for Contemporary Arts (UK), Empty Gallery (HK), Irish Museum of Modern Art (IRL), Summerhall (UK). He has also taken part in artists residencies at yU+co[lab] in Hong Kong, Counterflows in India and Shape Platform 2020.