Let's Destroy Work

Let's Destroy Work is the new book by Melbourne artist Marco Fusinato, with essays by Branden Joseph, Byron Coley & Alfredo M. Bonanno.

Marco Fusinato's practice references the rhetoric of radical politics (its ambitions and failures), noise as music and the conditions and conventions of conceptual art. Through wide-ranging forms of work in gallery contexts and performances, he foregrounds moments of disruption and impact in which lie the possibility of a shift in perception or change in the course of events.

His work has been included in Soundings: A Contemporary Score, the first ever exhibition of sound at the Museum of Modern Art, New York, 2013; Melbourne Now, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne 2013; The Imminence of Poetics, 30th Sao Paulo Biennale, Sao Paulo 2012; The Glasgow International Arts Festival, Glasgow 2012; Sonic Youth etc.: Sensational Fix, Kunsthalle Düsseldorf, Germany, and The Museum of Malmo, Sweden, 2009.

His recent solo exhibitions include Mass Black Implosion (Treatise, Cornelius Cardew), Anna Schwartz Gallery, Melbourne, 2013; The Color of the Sky Has Melted, Artspace, Sydney, 2012; THERE IS NO AUTHORITY, Anna Schwartz Gallery, Sydney, 2012; Noise & Capitalism, Anna Schwartz Gallery, Melbourne, 2010, and TM/MF (Thurston Moore/Marco Fusinato), Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne, 2000.

Fusinato performs regularly in the international experimental music underground, obliterating the guitar into improvised noise-spit tsunamis. Recent solo LP releases in the last year include L'Origine/TEMA (Bocian Records, Poland), Spectral Arrows: Sydney (Planam, Italy) and Spectral Arrows: Rotterdam (DePlayer, Netherlands).

About the Author

Marco Fusinato is a multidisciplinary artist whose work is a series of propositions that question and re-configure accepted cultural forms and concepts, laying bare their construction, re-using them in particular contexts, exploring how those worlds are made.

His first solo exhibition was in 1993 at the artist-run space Store 5 in Melbourne. Significant solo and collaborative exhibitions since include Double Infinitives, Anna Schwartz Gallery, Melbourne, 2009; Mass Black Implosion, Sarah Cottier Gallery, Sydney 2008; The Approaching of the Disco Void – Repeated and Other Works, Anna Schwartz Gallery, Melbourne, 2006; Marco Fusinato Mutlu Cerkez, Art Gallery of NSW, Contemporary Project Space, Sydney, 2005; Photographs (Sun Series), Centre for Contemporary Photography, Melbourne, 2005; AND (Mutlu Çerkez AND Marco Fusinato), Gertrude Contemporary Art Spaces, Melbourne, 2003; TM/MF, Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne (with Thurston Moore), 2000.