Mark Lee Morris: Hamartia
Curator. San Francisco Arts Commission Galleries: Grove St. Window Installation Site. June - August 2007
Mark Lee Morris is a San Francisco-based performance and media artist who tackles identity and the psychology of self-reflection in his practice. For Hamartia, located at the Gallery’s Grove St. Window Installation Site, passersby watch Morris film a weekly YouTube soap opera. Morris plays all of the characters, and the installation elements shift to accommodate the flow of the story. Episodes are viewable online and on a TV in the window. YouTube was launched in 2005, and user technology was evolving. Morris utilized a split screen format, lending an often humorous take on the challenge of depicting multiple characters at once. The episodes rolled out weekly, and both sidewalk and computer-based audiences flocked to see the latest 3 - 4 minute episodic story develop.
YouTube Links to Episodes