Work: Publications
A Fragment of Time in the Pure State; mapping painting's time through the digital image
Monograph: Published by VDM 2009
This book sets out to replace a familiar model for conceiving of painting’s temporality, drawn from the scopic regime of the photographic, with one provided by digital imaging. It proposes an approach to time in painting that moves away from a preoccupation with absence and mourning, a Freudian position of return, aligning itself instead with Proust’s ‘time regained’, reflecting more fully lived experience of time. It is argued that in such a repositioning, a dialogue with digital imaging offers contemporary painting an expanded topography, and as such contributes to its ability to ‘think’ time in these terms. The project’s route-map is Deleuzian, taking painting into the territory of the rhizome, smooth space and the cinematic time-image. It proposes shifting painting’s mode of address towards one that can offer an image of thought as haptic time. The analysis addresses the nature of practice-based research and theorizes studio practice in the form of ‘process notes’.
Painting in Search of Haptic Time
Published in Journal of Visual Art Practice, Vol.8 Issues 1&2 May 2009.
This paper re-presents aspects of a practice-based Ph.D. in which notions of temporality within painting are researched and placed into a relation with digital imaging. The research constructs a means of theorizing process through an engagement with various conceptualisations of duration, alongside the mapping of process derived from studio notes.
Painting's time is viewed in relation to haptic visuality and filmic time, moving towards the proposition of a form of haptic time. These reflections are linked to various conceptions of the actual/virtual to suggest that it is through a folding of time that painting, via the digital, might make an approach to pure duration; Proust's ‘fragment of time in the pure state’.
Winchester School of Art Research Anthology
Document: WSA Research Anthology (1265 kb)
Published by Winchester Gallery Press, 2009. Editors John Gillett and Beth Harland
Interview with Ian Woo
Ian Woo is a painter based in Singapore. This interview was published in the catalogue of his exhibition Everything That Went Before This, at The Substation Gallery, Singapore, October 2006.
Document: Interview Ian Woo (39 kb)
Document: Ian Woo, 'The Moving Finger', oil on canvas, 154cm x 122cm, 2006 (695 kb)
Reading Matter
1999. London, 80 pgs & CDRom. ISBN: 09535266. Editor: Beth Harland. Essays: Y.Lomax, B.Richards, S.Waters, J.Mooney. Reviewed in Art Monthly, May 1999.
Closer Still
Closer Still, exhibition curated by Beth Harland for Southern Arts Touring Exhibition Service. Exhibiting artists: Rita Donagh, John Dougill, Andrew Grassie, Beth Harland, Louisa Minkin, Simon Morley. Exhibited at Artsway and Winchester Gallery in 2001. Catalogue essay by Beth Harland and Louisa Minkin. 1998. ISBN: 9630361663
Document: Closer Still catalogue text (42 kb)
Publications featuring the work include:
Books:
2003 Unframed Rosemary Betterton editor. Essay by Rosa Lee: Threads: Dialogues with Jo Bruton, Beth Harland, Nicky May and Katie Pratt. ISBN: 1860647723. I.B.Tauris.
1996 An Intimate Distance Rosemary Betterton, ISBN: 0415110858. Routledge.
Exhibition Catalogues and Websites:
2007 Visual Intelligences, website www.visualintelligences.co.uk
2006 Inspiration to Order, catalogue
2006 Machine room, publication and website www.machineroom.cratespace.co.uk
2002 Smog Website www.lshtm.ac.uk/art/smog
2002 British School at Rome catalogue
2000 The Wreck of Hope Web-site www.wreckofhope.com.
1999 After Catalogue. Essay Simon Morley ISBN 0953721906
1999 John Moores Catalogue. Essay Richard Cork. ISBN 190270005
1999 Rhizome Catalogue. ISBN 8391131920
1998 InterViews Catalogue. Essay Beth Harland and Jim Mooney. ISBN 9630361663
1997 Orpheus Looking Back Catalogue, essay Dr P Davis, ISBN 0950720585
1996 Relatives Catalogue, essay M Cousins, Pb. A Bornholt
1996 Join the Dots Catalogue pb. 5020 Gallerie
1996 Now Wash Your Hands Catalogue, J Lanyon, ed.R Fortnum, ISBN 0907738451