Mark Pauline

Mark Pauline and son Jake

Mark Pauline (born December 14, 1953) is an American performance artist and inventor, best known as founder and director of Survival Research Laboratories. He is a 1977 graduate of Eckerd College in St. Petersburg, Florida.

Pauline founded SRL in 1978 and it is considered the premier practitioner of "industrial performing arts", and the forerunner of large scale machine performance. SRL is known for producing the most dangerous shows on earth. Although acknowledged as a major influence on popular competitions pitting remote-controlled robots and machines against each other, such as BattleBots and Robot Wars, Pauline shies away from rules-bound competition preferring a more anarchic approach. Machines are liberated and re-configured away from the functions they were originally meant to perform.

Pauline has written of SRL, "Since its inception SRL has operated as an organization of creative technicians dedicated to re-directing the techniques, tools, and tenets of industry, science, and the military away from their typical manifestations in practicality, product or warfare." Since its beginning through the end of 2006, SRL has conducted about 48 shows.

In the summer of 1982, Pauline severely damaged his hand while experimenting with solid rocket fuel.^[1] In August 1990, ArtPark, a state-sponsored arts festival in Lewiston, New York, cancelled a Pauline performance when it turned out he intended "to cover a sputtering Rube Goldberg spaceship with numerous Bibles" that would "serve as thermal protective shields" and be burned to ashes in the course of the performance.^[2]

According to Pauline "I like to make machines that can just do their own shows... machines that can do all that machines in the science fiction novels can do. I want to be there to make those dreams real."^[3]

References

↑ Miami Herald, January 29, 1984, .
↑ San Francisco Chronicle, August 14, 1990, .
↑ Jardin, Xeni. Interview with Mark Pauline. NPR news, April 21, 2005.

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Performance art

Work	Cut Piece (1964) How to Explain Pictures to a Dead Hare (1965) Seedbed (1972) Untitled (Rape Scene) (1973) Rhythm 10 (1973) Rhythm 5 (1974) Rhythm 2 (1974) Rhythm 0 (1974) Body Pressure (1974) Three Weeks in May (1977) Rest Energy (1980) 7000 Oaks (1982) Seven Easy Pieces (2005) The Artist Is Present (2010) Mattress Performance (Carry That Weight) (2014–2015) Ceci N'est Pas Un Viol (2015)

Artists	Marina Abramović Vito Acconci David Askevold Ron Athey Franko B Joseph Beuys David Blaine Günter Brus Chris Burden Houston Conwill Miss Crash Valie Export Bob Flanagan Alex Grey Tehching Hsieh Joan Jonas Allan Kaprow Yves Klein Yayoi Kusama Suzanne Lacy Marta Minujín Milo Moiré Linda Montano Charlotte Moorman Bruce Nauman Yoko Ono Nam June Paik Gina Pane Mark Pauline Carolee Schneemann Barbara T. Smith Stelarc Wolfgang Stoerchle Ulay Wolf Vostell Robert Whitman Hannah Wilke Yang Zhichao Miriam Syowia Kyambi

Other	Body art Endurance art Feminist art Happening Hunger artist monochrom Participatory art Performance art in China Survival Research Laboratories Viennese Actionism

Authority control	WorldCat Identities VIAF: 96605853 LCCN: no98118418 SUDOC: 184714796 ULAN: 500125360

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