PAUL LITHERLAND

Force majeure


Force majeure, 2010 Galerie Clark, opening 2 September, 2010


Art Works

2010- Force Majeure - Video installation, Montreal
2008-Wood vs Wood, Performance in Berlin
2007 - Family Workstations
2006 - "BOX" - Rencontre Internationale d'art performance
2006 - Absolutely Fabulous - Galerie Therese Dion
2005 - Art Photography- Residency in Mexico City
2004 - Hostile Takeover
2004 - ASCII fighter
2003 - Force of Attraction
2002 - Eole - video installation
2002 - Turning Point - video installation
2001 - Listener
 2001 - Babble - multimedia percussion work
1999 - Insecurity - performance with Security guards
1997 - Body Building - Musculation
-Photography / Butter Sculpture installation
1996 - Hesitation (English) - français - street installation of photographs
1995 - Body Contact - Large scale colour photograms
1994-1995 - Photo Sculptures and wood works
1993 - Souvenirs - performance work with photography

Reviews of Artwork

Artnews, Artforum, New Yorker, The Globe and Mail, etc.


LINKS

Andy White - my singing world touring cousin
CCCA
Photography Now
 

More Video and Photo

Paul's Video and Photo channels on
Youtube, Vimeo and Flickr

 

 

 

Locations of visitors to this page  
Skydiving

Base Jumping
Skydiving in BC and Quebec 80s and 90s
Freefall Fighters!
First wingsuit Jump
Flock and Dock Florida 2009
Flock and Dock 6.0, 2010
Picasa photo album of skydiving
Wingsuiting over Quebec

 
Upcoming / Current / Recent Exhibitions
Exposition: Agir: Art des femmes en prison 27 mai au 16 juin, 2011

Galerie Graff, Montreal, Qc, Sept. 9 - Oct 16, 2010. Group exhibition "Artiste - modèle"

Galerie Clark, Montreal, Qc, Sept.2, - Oct 2010, New project Force Majeure

Nuit Blanche, Toronto, October, 2009, Hart House, University of Toronto

Blackwood Gallery, Toronto, September, 2009 Fall Out Curated by Christof Migone

Ateliergemeinschaft - Berlin Performance of Wood vs Wood, Nov. 3rd 2008

Gallery 44, Vitrines - opening February 7, 2008, continues to March 6, 2008
 
Podcast

Swivel - artist interviews hosted by Paul Litherland and Julie Keller
A podcast about visual art in Montreal - interviewing artists about making and exploring contemporary visual art.

Texts etc.

Art Blog - Occasional thoughts
 Art Blog- Mexico 2006

Artist CV

PDF catalogue of artworks (2.3 MB)

Text by John K. Grande - Act Action Art
Text by Kevin de Forest - Hesitation
Artist statement
The slides of artwork counter page
Studio LUX - photography of art work
2003 - special winter video
2003 - second special winter video
Random Photos page
DF journal - Mexico City blog
Dr. Scholl's - Band

email Paul

Paul Litherland Bio
RAEV - ELAN video profile - 2011

 
Photographer and multimedia performance artist Paul Litherland lives in Montreal and performs at Multimedia Art festivals and events. His work incorporates ideas of risk taking, finding strengths in unexpected places and creating artworks with a sense of humour. Media and ideas he works with include digital photography, digital video, performance art, base jumping, skydiving, boxing, street interventions, vulnerability as strength, exposure to risk, and poetic combinations of materials and histories.

Visual art projects include diverse projects such as wood sculptures made from plywood ( Clear Cut )and chunks of walnut (Hairy Man), photography installations (Souvenirs) and (Hesitation)

Photo collections

1986 - Trip to Mexico on motorcycle photos
2001 - India Sculpture Symposium in Kerala, India
2008- Containers