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Paul Litherland		paul@lux.ca http://paullitherland.com
Ce texte n'est présentement disponible qu'en anglais, une traduction française suivra sous peu. Paul Litherland is a visual artist/performer living in Montréal. He produces photography and multimedia artworks with themes of communication, vulnerability and machismo. Recent works include BABBLE, a multimedia - percussion performance about how technology transforms the meaning of language. The installation Security/Insecurité, consisted of security guards sleeping on the floor while an image of a mutilated but thriving tree floated overhead. In this work, authority figures reveal their normal human vulnerabilities, creating an interesting dialogue between their position in society and their position in the room. Another work, Hesitation, was an installation of photographs in the form of traffic signs installed on lamposts along Boulevard St. Laurent - the main east - west dividing street of Montreal. The photographs portrayed people engaged in difficult and awkward communications. The feeling of being out of place, of having something to say, but not finding the means to say it, are recurring elements in Litherland's work. Sometimes this results in little explosions, like climbing tall objects and then jumping from them with a parachute, and sometimes it appears as a juxtaposition of image and text, as in the photographic work, I have Sensitive Teeth, an image of a macho Litherland dressed up in skydiving gear, wearing a smug superhero grin.		Babble, 2001, performance multimédia Paul Litherland accompagné d' Alexander MacSween et de Jean Philippe Thibault. Babble is a performance about how technology changes the meaning of the messages we send. Using electronic percussion instruments hooked up to computers and video projection equipment, the performers break down binary code and other language technologies to make their influence on our messages visible.
When not riding his bike or jumping from something, Paul Litherland works as a photographer for the art world, and as of this writing, has made about 90,000 images of art since 1992. He has received travel and production grants from the Canada Council and the Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec and has participated in artists residencies in St. Jean Port Joli, Banff, and in Kerala, India.