Marc Arthur is a research-based artist and writer. His practice blends theatre, dance, and other media to explore topics of time, memory, politics, and gender as they structure the conditions for collective worldmaking. He is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Theatre & Dance at Wayne State University in Detroit, Michigan and completed his PhD in Performance Studies from New York University (2019). He was a Postdoctoral Fellow in Arts-based Social Justice Research and Practice at the University of Michigan (2019 – 2022) where he studied community-based performance approaches for decreasing stigma. He is currently a Visiting Fellow in Critical Studies at Cranbrook Academy of Art. His monograph in development, The Art of Crisis: Supernatural Performance and the Temporality of AIDS, proposes the supernatural as an underacknowledged tool that artists employ to redefine their engagement with AIDS memory and history.

Arthur’s writing and criticism has appeared in edited volumes and journals including Theatre Journal, TDR: The Drama Review, Bomb Magazine, and Canadian Theatre Review, as well as numerous edited collections. He has also written extensively for Performa Magazine, where he was editor (2015 – 2017). At Performa he also served as the Head of Research and Archives (2011 – 2017) where he organized touring exhibitions, curated programs, led interdisciplinary research projects with a wide range of artists.

His performance work has been presented at theatres and galleries internationally, including the Park Avenue Armory, Martha Graham Dance Theater, La MaMa E.T.C., Dixon Place, The Living Theater, Movement Research at Judson Church, the Bronx Academy of Arts & Dance, the Wild Project, University Settlement, and Chashama in New York City; New Langton Arts and David Cunningham Projects, San Francisco; Moyse Theatre at McGill University, Montreal; Xavier Hufkens Gallery, Brussels; the Emily Harvey Foundation, Venice; Universität der Künste, Berlin; and FRISE, Hamburg.

marcarthur@wayne.edu