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dc.contributor.authorHarrison, Paul
dc.contributor.authorWood, John
dc.date.accessioned2017-10-02T14:02:25Z
dc.date.available2017-10-02T14:02:25Z
dc.date.issued2014
dc.descriptionWith John Wood.
dc.description.abstractJohn Wood (b.1969, Hong Kong) and Paul Harrison (b.1966, Wolverhampton) met in 1989 at the Bath College of Higher Education, and have worked together since 1993. John Wood and Paul Harrison make single-channel videos, multi-screen video installations, prints, drawings, and sculptures that elegantly fuse advanced aesthetic research with existential comedy. The artists’ spare, to-the-point works feature the actions of their own bodies, a wide variety of static and moving props, or combinations of both to illustrate the triumphs and tribulations of making art and having a life. The videos maintain a strict internal logic, with the action directly related to the duration of the work. Inside this 'logical world' action is allowed to happen for no apparent reason, tensions build between the environment and its inhabitant, play is encouraged and the influences on the work are intentionally mixed. In their not-always- successful experiments with movement and materials, many of which critic Tom Lubbock has described as “sculptural pratfalls,” Wood and Harrison employ exuberant invention, subtle slapstick, and a touch of light-hearted melancholy to reveal the inspiration and perspiration — as well as the occasional hint of desperation — behind all creative acts.
dc.description.sponsorshipBRITISH COUNCIL, MUSEO DE ANTIOQUIA, MEDELLIN, COLUMBIA
dc.language.isoen
dc.publisherMUSEO DE ANTIOQUIA, MEDELLIN, COLUMBIA
dc.relation.urlhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bg14CrIXhiM
dc.subjectEXHIBITION
dc.subjectART
dc.subjectVIDEO ART
dc.titleCUAL PARA TAL
dc.typeExhibition
pubs.finish-date2014-10-05
pubs.start-date2014-06-16
html.description.abstractJohn Wood (b.1969, Hong Kong) and Paul Harrison (b.1966, Wolverhampton) met in 1989 at the Bath College of Higher Education, and have worked together since 1993. John Wood and Paul Harrison make single-channel videos, multi-screen video installations, prints, drawings, and sculptures that elegantly fuse advanced aesthetic research with existential comedy. The artists’ spare, to-the-point works feature the actions of their own bodies, a wide variety of static and moving props, or combinations of both to illustrate the triumphs and tribulations of making art and having a life. The videos maintain a strict internal logic, with the action directly related to the duration of the work. Inside this 'logical world' action is allowed to happen for no apparent reason, tensions build between the environment and its inhabitant, play is encouraged and the influences on the work are intentionally mixed. In their not-always- successful experiments with movement and materials, many of which critic Tom Lubbock has described as “sculptural pratfalls,” Wood and Harrison employ exuberant invention, subtle slapstick, and a touch of light-hearted melancholy to reveal the inspiration and perspiration — as well as the occasional hint of desperation — behind all creative acts.


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