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Mars Dietz is an intermedia sound artist from Brooklyn. Mars is someone you could meet on a train, or on the sidewalk, or through friends, or through this written description, for example. Mars' hybrid artistic background includes multi-channel sound performance, electronic music production and sound design, writing, and further interdisciplinary or conceptual media in a research-driven practice bent on historical analysis.
Topics of interest include histories and fallout of extractivism; a critique of the human, rights, and human rights; transtemporal and epistolary relationships; and the affective power of technology, the royal we, and pseudo-institutions. Sometimes Mars also composes love songs about people and bodies of water.
Mars lived and worked in Berlin, Germany for ten years working as a sound designer and musician, and occasional co-author, in the contemporary dance and performing arts space from 2013 - 2023. As DJ Sapphic Faggot, Mars was a crew member of the legendary underground monthly club night BODYSNATCH Berlin, now on hiatus.
In New York, Mars is the General Manager of Tamizdat Inc., a nonprofit organization dedicated to facilitating international artist mobility. Tamizdat serves the United States performing arts sector, as well as international artists seeking to tour in the United States, with its pro bono legal assistance hotline, as well as by conducting industry-leading legal research, and through the publication of its annual White Paper, among various other programs.
In 2025, Mars is thinking about outdoor sound, electromagnetic signals, and event organizing. Mars is honored to be a current artist in residence at MakerSpace NYC.
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