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Mark Bloch (born 1956) is an American mail artist, performance artist, archivist and writer whose work combines visuals and text as well as performance and media〔WNYC-FM "Artists in the City" radio broadcast transcript, March 1985 in Welch, Chuck. editor. Networking Currents: Contemporary Mail Art Subjects and Issues, Sandbar Willow Press, June 1986. pp. 68-80.〕 to explore ideas of long distance communication.〔Zuba, Elizabeth. Not Nothing. Los Angeles: Siglio Press, 2014. p. 368〕 ==Early years and education== Mark Bloch was born to American parents in Würzburg, Germany, in 1956 where his father was based as soldier of the US Army.〔Wohlrab, Lutz. "Mark Bloch," Mail Artists' Index () May 2008.〕 Bloch grew up in Cleveland and Akron, Ohio. Exposure in his youth to Robert Wyatt, the Fugs, Frank Zappa and Yoko Ono led to an interest in the fringes of art. Coincidentally, Bloch later referred to his mentor Ray Johnson as the "fringe of the fringe."〔Thaler, Lisa. Look Up, The Life and Art of Sacha Kolin. New York: Midmarch Arts Press, 2008. p. 164.〕 Bloch attended Kent State University, where he was influenced by faculty members Adrian DeWitt, a Jungian who taught in the Romance Languages department, Robert Schimmel and Robert Culley, another Jungian, in the School of Art and visiting artists Joan Jonas from New York and Iimura Takahiko from Japan, both videographers. Bloch attended Kent in the aftermath of the 1970 Kent State shootings and was present during protests of a gymnasium that was built on the site of that incident.〔Retiring KSU President Glenn Olds mistakenly refers to Bloch's "The Sprout," a mimeographed art zine, as the "newspaper on the hill," referring to "Tentropolis...in front of Taylor Hall," where students occupied a construction site from May to July 1977. See Kobasky, Joan and Shane, Paul. "Farewell to KSU, Mr. & Mrs. Olds: reflections, aspirations" Daily Kent Stater, Volume L, Number 117, 3 June 1977. pg. 1.〕 Following his work with Jonas, and switching his focus from art to TV, Bloch received his B.A. degree in Broadcasting and was the creator of a "punk" performance art movement called The New Irreverence〔Daily Kent Stater, Volume LI, Number 66, 28 February 1978. Page 3.〕 and other avant garde provocations.〔Schultz, Connie. "Presentation Reviews Unconventional Media." Daily Kent Stater, Volume LI, Number 102, 16 May 1978. p.3〕 After Kent, Bloch moved to Southern California, experimenting with performance,〔Bloch, Mark. "Bloch Is Here" High Performance Magazine #10. 1979. Astro-Arts. Los Angeles, Ca.〕 studying with artist Rachel Rosenthal, and supporting himself as a maker of corporate communications for corporate clients from 1978 to 1982. After moving to New York City in 1982, he met many of the Sixties generation of avant garde artists whom he had long been studying in written form, artistic heirs to the legacy of Marcel Duchamp such as Dick Higgins and Alison Knowles, Jackson MacLow, Al Hansen, Nam June Paik and others.〔"Secrets of the ancient 20th century gamers." (), The Emily Harvey Foundation. 2010.〕 Bloch also met Ray Johnson who had heard of Bloch's mailed performance art pieces and invited him into his New York Correspondence School.〔Zuba.〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Mark Bloch」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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