Bad at Sports Episode 251: Mark Dion - a podcast by Bad at Sports

This week: We talk to artist Mark Dion, about social practice, the Museum of Jurassic Technology, cabinets of curiosity. The word "taxonomy" is bandied about at great length.

Mark Dion was born in 1961 in Massachusetts; he lives and works in
Pennsylvania.

Dion is known for making art out of fieldwork, incorporating
elements of biology, archaeology, ethnography, and the history of
science, and applying to his artwork methodologies generally used for
pure science. Traveling the world and collaborating with a wide range of
scientists, artists, and museums, Dion has excavated ancient and modern
artifacts from the banks of the Thames in London, established a marine
life laboratory using specimens from New York’s Chinatown, and created a
contemporary cabinet of curiosities exploring natural and philosophical
hierarchies. His approach emphasizes illustration and accuracy but is
charged with a biting undertone. Dion has a longstanding interest in
exploring how ideas about natural history are visualized and how they
circulate in society. Dion’s work has been presented at many U.S. and
international museums and galleries, including solo exhibitions at the
Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver; Galleria Emi Fontana, Milan; Wexner
Center for the Arts, Columbus, Ohio; Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York;
and Deutsches Museum, Bonn. Dion has been commissioned to create works
for Aldrich Museum of Art, Ridgefield, Connecticut; the Tate Gallery,
London; the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco; and The
Museum of Modern Art, New York.

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