Paul Litherland - Montreal Photography and Performance Art and Artist

Art Works

2008-Wood vs Wood, Performance in Berlin
2008- Containers
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 - India Sculpture Symposium in Kerala, India
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

Skydiving

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

Upcoming / Current / Recent Exhibitions

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

Group show, Faking Death, Jack Shainman Gallery, New York
opening Jan. 6, 2006 - Feb. 3rd, 2006

Swivel - a podcast 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- Mexico
Art Blog - Paris and Berlin

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

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)