Stop thinking about art works as objects, and start thinking about them as triggers for experiences
Professor Paul Sermon
Wednesday 2 March 2016
Sallis Benney Theatre58-67 Grand Parade,Brighton BN2 0JY
'Art is something that happens; a process, not a quality, and all sorts of things can make it happen.
“…what makes a work of art ‘good’ for you is not something that is already ‘inside’ it, but something that happens inside you.” Brian Eno’s Diary, A Year With Swollen Appendices, 1996.
Although I have ‘nothing’ to show, I will attempt to present over twenty years of work in forty minutes, through the documentation, stories and accounts of the experiences I have affected.
Central to my creative practice is an ability to present a sense of ‘touch’ in a global network, where the role of the viewer becomes creator. The networked video installations I have developed connect audiences around the world; whose engagement within them makes the work and their shared experiences of them creates the Art.
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