Katherine Bull

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'data capture_LOST & FOUND'

Still
if lives
viewed
as moving images
could be captured
the flow of movement      
remains
just so
out of grasp
escaping
in ethereal transmissions
from the hope
of finding
a place
of asking:
what ghosts
mirror me?


…/Ethnographic Note /Viewings
Glen Thompson |13 July 2011

'data capture_LOST & FOUND' is an exhibition of watercolour paintings created while watching the first five seasons of the television series LOST[1]. The sixth and final season of the series will be painted as part of a pair of drawing actions that will be performed in the gallery space.

1. LOST. Abrams, Lieber & Lindelof. ABC CTV.  2004-2010.

04 August 2011 - 03 September 2011

‘Treading Soft Ground’

Warren Editions, in collaboration with artist Katherine Bull, present a live print performance: ‘Treading Soft Ground’. Working from a live webcam feed, the immediacy of Katherine’s autographic drawings will be translated in print as a team of printmakers etch and hand-print the works as part of a live performance.

As a live print performance, ‘Treading Soft Ground’ is a contemporary and experimental engagement with the traditional printmaking medium of soft ground etching. The loose immediacy of artist Katherine Bull’s line-work, drawn from a live webcam feed of the harbour, projected onto the project space wall, is to be translated in print by a team of Warren Editions printmakers.

The team will etch and hand-print the artist’s images as part of the live performance. In this exciting synthesis of art, technology and traditional craft, Treading Soft Ground pushes the collaborative dynamic of printmaking. Popularised in the late 18th century, soft ground etching is a traditional printmaking technique in which a soft, waxy ground is applied to a metal plate. Over the plate is placed a sheet of paper onto which the artist draws. The line-work impresses the ground, and when etched the plate retains thedrawn image. The plate is then inked and wiped by hand, and when printed represents in a new form, the delicacy and natural fluctuation of the drawn marks.

As a project, ‘Treading Soft Ground’ means to facilitate an exciting creative transfer between artist Katherine Bull and the print team at Warren Editions. As a ‘live print performance’ the project engages directly with the public, and presents a unique opportunity for the audience to share in a creative happening. The viewer will experience first-hand the traditional printmaking process that is soft ground etching, and engage in a dialogue between the digital and analogue evident in Katherine Bull’s work.

‘Treading Soft Ground’ will take place on 22 May 2014 at Warren Editions Projects between 17:00 and 21:00, with an exhibition following the performance event showcasing the prints pulled from the soft ground etchings created during the performance.

The performance is an official World Design Capital Cape Town | project #WDC659

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22 May 2014 - 28 June 2014