Hordaland Kunstsenter

The work will focus upon the question of how will, and how can the viewer respond to modes of practice in which the context of creativity is to be found no longer in the work but in the way of working. The work focuses upon the combination of a primary physiological experience of space and objects, and a cerebral experience. The intention is in part to explore the paradox of participatory practice, where the ‘participant’ is limited or directed by the ‘facilitator’.

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Ben Cain (b.1975, Leeds) lives and works in London and Zagreb. He is primarily involved in the production of video installations, sculpture, audio work, performances and printed matter, which address the convergence of theatre and documentary, with a particular interest in facilitating and highlighting the viewers’ role in the emergence of subjects and objects. Cain’s work deals with the interplay of saying and doing, action and imagination, and language and bodily movement in the process of developing work that oscillates between the visible and the non-visible, the physical and the virtual. In the last year he has exhibited in various places including the Slought Foundation, Philadelphia; Garanta Perform, Istanbul; Wiels, Brussels; the ICA, London; and Lenbachhaus in Munich.