- Venue
- Light House Media Centre
- Date
- Saturday, March 28, 2009
- Address
- Chubb Buildings Fryer Street Wolverhampton WV1 1HT
- Location
- West Midlands
‘Looking and being looked at: A cross cultural investigation and dialogue’ is a multi-disciplinary project between Iranian and UK based artists that seeks to examine the relationship that exists between artist and model in contemporary figurative art – the position of the model; being looked at and choosing to be looked at, the view of the spectator on work that has been displaced from one culture (Iran) to another (UK) and the outcome of viewing work that has been culturally displaced. The project also aims to look at the wider issues of direct and indirect observation and the position of viewer and viewed in every day interventions.As part of the launch of ‘Looking and Being Looked At’ the lead artist Elena Cassidy-Smith is inviting audiences to engage with the key issues addressed by the project by leaving their comments and participating in a self-portraiture activity that will consider how looking can be active or passive, depending upon the perspective of the viewer or the viewed. No specific drawing skills are needed and all public work produced at the event will be included in a project exhibition that is scheduled for late autumn 2009.Free participatory event. For further information about the project e-mail: [email protected]
