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Box
Multimedia Performance by Paul Litherland (2006)
Technology developer: Patrice Coulombe
Performance at Galerie Rouje (Quebec city), Sept 22, 2006
Photos: Jérôme Bourque and Genevieve Nobert, Rencontre Internationale d'art Performance 2006
Box is a multimedia boxing performance by Paul Litherland. Using gloves hooked into wireless gameboy controllers, two boxers control videos via programs written using MAX/MSP/Jitter by Patrice Coulombe. It is being presented as part of the Rencontre Internationale d'art Performance in Québec City on September 22, 2006.
Photos: Paul Litherland 2006
Biography
Paul Litherland is a visual artist/performer living in Montréal. His exhibitions in national and international venues have been reviewed in the Globe and Mail, Artnews, the New Yorker, the Montreal Gazette, The Hindu (India), Diario Monitor (Mexico) and Excelsior (Mexico). His wide-ranging practice incorporates themes of masquerade, vulnerability and machismo, explored through photography and multimedia performances. His work can be found in private and public collections such as the Canada Council Art Bank and the Musée du Québec. Recent exhibtions include “Fall Out” at the University of Toronto’s Blackwood Gallery in 2009, performing “Wood vs. Wood” in Berlin 2008, and was part of the “Faking Death” exhibition at the Jack Shainman Gallery, NYC, in January 2006. In 2007, his work from the exhibition “Absolutely Fabulous” was featured on the cover and in depth in CV magazine, a magazine devoted to contemporary photographic practice, produced in Montreal.
He studied photography and fine art at the Emily Carr College of Art and Design in Vancouver (now the Emily Carr Institute of Art and Design) and graduated from the MFA program in photography from Concordia in 1994.
