Mark Dion in "Ecology" - Season 4 - "Art in the Twenty-First Century" | Art21

Art21 proudly presents an artist segment, featuring Mark Dion, from the "Ecology" episode in Season 4 of the "Art in the Twenty-First Century" series.
"Ecology" premiered in November 2007 on PBS.
Intrigued by natural history and museum procedures, Dion’s collections become part of his installations and public projects that address our ideas and assumptions about nature. Viewers follow Dion on a journey during which he brings a “nurse log”-a fallen Hemlock tree which is home to a wide variety of flora and fauna-into the heart of Seattle.
Mark Dion was born in New Bedford, Massachusetts, in 1961. Learn more about the artist at: art21.org/arti...
CREDITS
Created by: Susan Sollins & Susan Dowling. Executive Producer & Curator: Susan Sollins. Series Producer: Eve-Laure Moros Ortega. Associate Producer: Migs Wright. Associate Curator: Wesley Miller. Production Manager: Alice Bertoni & Nick Ravich. Production Coordinator: Amanda Donnan & Meredith Klein. Consulting Director: Catherine Tatge. Editor: Steven Wechsler. Director of Photography: Bob Elfstrom, Mark Falstad, Mead Hunt, & Joel Shapiro. Additional Photography: Christine Burrill, Alice Bertoni, & John Gordon Hill. Sound: Tom Bergin, Ray Day, Doug Dunderdale, Heidi Hesse, Mark Mandler, Gabriel Monts, Roger Phenix, Yuri Raicin, & Charles Tomaras. Audio Technician: Drew Weir. Assistant Camera: Craig Feldman & Brian Hwang. Jib Arm Operator: Scott Hoffman. Production Assistant: Carlos Moncada & David Nugent. Additional Animation: Shawn Dunbar.
Major underwriting for Season 4 of “Art in the Twenty-First Century” was provided by National Endowment for the Arts, PBS, Agnes Gund and Daniel Shapiro, Nathan Cummings Foundation, Bloomberg, The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, The Horace W. Goldsmith Foundation, Bagley Wright Fund, and W.L.S. Spencer Foundation.
Full credits available at art21.org/watc...
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[@OnajideShabaka]

Mark's project is totally brilliant!

[@jameswelsh7789]

This is wonderful. I first saw Mark’s work decades ago and recently started catching up with his practice on instagram. This Art21 video has brought me up to speed on his ground breaking (forgive the pun) career!

[@jeannagai5290]

There's a Dion "sculpture" at the Seattle sculpture park where he placed a piece of nurse log inside of a room and in a couple decades the glass ceiling will be broken by one of the trees growing off of the log. Nature is the best artist.

[@jeannagai5290]

haha, I had no idea that this video was about his installation at sam sculpture park

[@MrCguzma3]

"a sense of the marvelous...a sense of the wonderful" indeed

[@fire9water]

so why couldn't this be accomplished within its own natural space instead of enclosing in glass which adds a dimension of artificiality?

[@missinglink9973]

tar and decaying rats .That is going to be one hell of a smelly sculpture