paintvoxbox is part of the Electric Pavilion project at Watershed,
Bristol, until November 30, 2005. It is an interactive web site,
showing pairs of artworks (predominantly paintings) that come from
contrasting backgrounds, venues and eras - but which nevertheless
resonate with each other. Public comment interpreting the works
subjectively, is exchanged for a small piece of original artwork in
response to their comment. When paintvoxbox ends, this collection of
comment and artworks will generate a series of paintings, drawings
and small videos, exploring the interaction between viewer and
artwork, which will form a 'paintbox' exhibition. The progress of
the project can be followed at http://www.karenwallis.co.uk
Karen Wallis is an artist whose current practice is researching how
art is presented and how people perceive it. In 2003, she completed
a practice-based PhD, researching into the possibility of a realism
for the nude, informed by reading on phenomenology, hermeneutics and
alterity. Arising from that research, paintvoxbox represents an
ongoing concern with the rhetoric of the image and the space that
separates the viewer from the image. |
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