John wood and paul harrison biography

John Wood (born in 1969 in Hong Kong) and Paul Harrison (born in 1966 in Wolverhampton, England) both studied at the Bath College of Higher Education. They have been working together since 1993.

Wood and Harrison create video works of minimalist performances, touching on themes of tragedy, comedy and irony.

They are experiments in the physical limitations, scale and movement of the human body in relation to the surrounding environment, which has usually been constructed by the artists

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3D Bucket (2001), Table and Chairs (2001) and Watering Cans (2001) are part of a larger installation of Wood & Harrison's entitled Twenty Six (Drawing and Falling Things) first shown at the Chisenhale Gallery, London in 2002.

This comprised twenty six television screen installation of similar short works, all under three minutes, which are looped continuously. The action is always shot from a fixed position, rendering the space in which action can take place square, flat and un-moving,