PROJECTION DESIGN + IMMERSIVE INSTALLATION
Mark Holthusen is an award-winning visual artist, producer and director, best known for innovative work that pushes boundaries for the world’s leading brands, agencies, musicians and performers. With a career that spans production, photography, video, experiential and digital innovation, he has an exceptional ability for inventive work that defies expectations of what's possible in visual media.
IMMERSIVE INSTALLATION
Co-created and designed the AIR LOOM, a hauntingly beautiful, fully immersive looping installation exploring the new technologies defining our future. Voiced by musician Blixa Bargeld in the role of the Influence Machine.
STAGE DESIGN + PROJECTION
Designed set and projection storyline for The Tiger Lillies immersive show, focused on life of Edgar Allan Poe.
DIRECTOR + DESIGNER
British band The Tiger Lillies are well known for their theatrical shows, often dark, peculiar and varied. Directed and designed visual sets for Lulu, a show based around a murder ballad, running at Opera North, Leeds, UK.
DIRECTOR + DESIGNER
A Mexican setting provides the backdrop for this brand new cycle of songs and its stage show,
Designed and directed three music videos and accompanying visual narration for the Kovac’s Cheap Smell album and tour.
SET DESIGN + PHOTOGRAPHY
Partnered with Pink Floyd co-founder Roger Waters to rethink traditional stage design for his three-act opera, Ça Ira. Resulted in critically acclaimed visual narration for the sold out show.
PROJECTION DESIGN
Artworks and projection mapping for Manahatta, a play by Mary Katherine Nagel focused on the plight of native Americans during the 2008 housing crash. This premiered at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival.
PROJECTION DESIGN + MAPPING
Projection mapping and design for the world premiere of Head Over Heels at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival. This duke box musical featured the music of iconic punk band The Go Go’s.
CONCERT: THE TIGER LILLIES : 90 min
Designed, directed and animated an immersive multi-screen concert installation for cult British musical trio The Tiger Lillies, that brings Samual Colridge's tale to life on-stage.
“Holthusen’s animation is gorgeous; all the better for maintaining a handmade toy-theatre aesthetic. The albatross is a puppet on strings, the sea waves are cardboard cut-outs and the sun’s rays, rippling yellow cloth.”
The Telegraph
DIRECTOR + DESIGNER
Worked with Dutch singer songwriter Sharon Kovacs to support her tour to promote her second album, Cheap Smell, directing music videos and creating immersive visuals for live concerts.
DROTTINIGHOLM
DIGITIZATION + DESIGN + PHOTOGRAPHY
Created a digital version of the 300-year old Royal Court Theater at Drottningholm Palace in Stockholm, a World Heritage Site. This is one of the few 18th century theatres in Europe that is still operational with its original stage machinery.
Artworks and projection mapping for Manahatta, a play by Mary Katherine Nagel focused on the plight of native Americans during the 2008 housing crash. This premiered at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival.
PROJECTION DESIGN
Led projection design for British band The Tiger Lillies' Edinburgh show, based on Frank Wedikind's Last Days of Mankind.
PROJECTION DESIGN
Designed set projections and led design mapping for The River Bride at the Oregan Shakespeare Festival. The play is set in a small Brazilian fishing village.
CO-CREATOR + DIRECTOR + ANIMATION
Long term collaboration with the Grammy nominated band The Tiger Lillies spanning 10 years. Produced five shows, numerous album covers and critically acclaimed stage production for the band’s world tour.
FILM: 30 min LOOP
Concepted, produced and filmed Endless Work, which debuted at The Otherworldly Festival in Sweden. The 30- minute piece is a meditation on effort, and a hopeless case of structuring the unfathomable.
Designed set projections for the world premiere of Whisper House in London, written by Kyle Jarrow and Duncan Sheik.
PROJECTION DESIGN
CONCERT / FILM: JULIA KENT & DAVID COULTER
45 min
Concepted and produced this three-part film to accompany a concert by award-winning musicians Julia Kent and David Coulter, premiering at The Otherworldly Festival in Sweden.