Mark Harvey is a New Zealand-based artist working in performance. His practice test out notions of endurance with constructions of idiocy, seriousness and deadpan humour, and draw from his visual arts and contemporary dance influences (he once trained in contemporary dance).
A performance in homage to the slate mine workers of Gwynedd, Wales, who helped to found Bangor University, in which the artist carried local slate slabs up the hill to the university.