Marcos Lutyens (b. 1964, London, UK) lives in Los Angeles. Lutyens engages the visitor’s embodied experience of art through cognitive techniques such as hypnosis. His investigations have included research with social groups which have included the third-gender Muxhe, Raeilians, synaesthetes, border migrants, space engineers and mental architects. In doing so, he explores how unconscious mind-sets shift across cultures and backgrounds. Lutyens has developed projects that involve our external surroundings such as interactions with pedestrian flows, social media dialogue, air quality levels, animal and biological intercommunication.
For Liverpool Biennial 2016, Lutyens has created an audio work incorporating myths, rumours and portals, which can be downloaded here and listened to whilst walking around the city, or sitting near the Chinatown arch.
Lutyens has exhibited internationally such as at dOCUMENTA(13), Kassel, Germany (2012); the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, USA (2010); the Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France (2011); the Royal Academy, London, UK (2010); the National Art Museum of China, Biejing, China (2014); MoMA PS1, New York, USA (2014); Istanbul Biennial, Istanbul, Turkey (2015); Manifesta (2016); and Castello di Rivoli, Turin, Italy (2016). Lutyens recently launched his book Memoirs of a Hypnotist: 100 Days.
Liverpool Biennial
55 New Bird Street
Liverpool L1 0BW
Liverpool Biennial is funded by
Founding Supporter
James Moores