As an intermedia sound artist, Mars' practice includes solo stereo and multi-channel sound performance, research-driven sonic arts, electronic music production, and sound engineering, along with a long history of interdisciplinary collaboration in choreography and performance.
In Mars’ work, you can hear vertiginous glissandos, washes of spatialized white noise, blurred shards of complex drum machine patterns, rhythmic electronic music, samples of lectures, speeches and interviews with activists and thinkers, original speech and writing, and digital and analog feedback techniques. You may be hearing these sounds through industrial horns in a durational outdoor sculpture, or through six channels above your head with Mars playing live at a performing arts venue, or in your headphones through a radio broadcast.
Mars’ solo work is often research-driven, touching on topics such as climate catastrophe (Detuning, 2025); transtemporal relations and inter-responsibility (Transpires among us, 2022, PLAGUE!, 2021); timelining freedom-seeking revolt and crossing temporal impasses (Time Demonstrations, 2026); the fallout of extractivism (Wismut: A Nuclear Choir, 2019, shred the means, 2019); and a critique of human rights discourses’ focus on the confessional subject (Freedom from Speech, 2018).
Mars' work is influenced by a history of deep professional immersion and collaboration in contemporary choreography, and is inflected with Mars' prior training in fine arts and performance art. Mars has extensive experience working with choreographers and performers as a sound artist and musician for stage works, often producing music live with the performers on stage with music and dance contingent on one another.
Mars has had commissions, interdisciplinary collaborations and performances at the Spinnerei Leipzig, Sophiensaele Berlin, Haus der Kunst Munich, PopKultur Festival Berlin, Creamcake Berlin's 3hd Festival, e-werk Luckenwalde, the Portland Institute for Contemporary Art, the Institute for Electronic Arts, Brooklyn College, and further locations in the United States and Europe. Mars' work has been previously supported with grants and residencies from the Berliner Senatsverwaltung für Kultur und Europa, Musikfonds e.V., Alfred University, Creamcake Berlin, Amplify Berlin, and most recently Makerspace NYC. Mars was a resident DJ at BODYSNATCH Berlin, a monthly underground club night at Monarch Berlin that sustained a dedicated cult following from 2011-2023.
In New York, Mars works locally as a sound artist and DJ; as the General Manager of Tamizdat Inc., a nonprofit dedicated to international artist mobility; as the founder of Outer Listening, an atelier-like collaborative event series in New York City dedicated to the combination of words and sounds co-created with Andrea Atehortua, Ana Bozicevic, danilo machado and Saar Shemesh; and the host of Edge Case, Mars' open format radio show on Maker Park Radio NYC. Mars is co-editor of Honey Vol. 2, a zine focused on friendship, together with Opashona Ghosh (UK) and Dylan Spencer-Davidson (DE).
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