In an hour-length A/V performance titled “Bliss Noise, Fake Dreams, Un_Rest,“ Marlon T. L. Fink, aka Fon_Tarrian, will perform an elegy dedicated to the American poet John Berryman. An evocative, two-channel video installation consisting of photographs and video clips from his own archive, rounded out by found footage, Fink adds sound and dramatic accents by reading hybridized passages of text.
Marlon Thierry Laurent Fink, born in 1986 in Graz, also lives, studies, and works there. After successfully graduating with a degree in audio-visual media design, with concentrations in analogue and digital photography, and all facets of the moving picture at the local HTL Ortwein für Kunst und Design in 2005, he found his own way to his musical identity, Fontarrian, via a detour through documentary photographs and staged videos. Besides his courses in American Studies and Media Studies at the Karl Franzens University in Graz, he continues forging his own path with projects that intersect with music, video art, and photography. In March 2014 his debut album was released by the Berlin-based label Antime, followed by a strictly limited split cassette release by the Viennese collective Bebop Rodeo in July. He is working on an EP for the label disko404 in Graz
