Frances Colpitt & Terri Thornton: Ether January 27, 2008

testsite 08.1 Ether

Frances Colpitt & Terri Thornton & Gavin Morrison
01.27.2008 - 03.02.2008

Ether is a collaborative work by Frances Colpitt and Terri Thornton based on the idea of invisibility or near invisibility in art. In this collaboration, Thornton and Colpitt complicated the standard relationship between artist as creator and critic as interpreter through a process of exchange and response. Inspired by Thornton’s delicate drawings and pin-pricked words on the wall, Colpitt wrote an essay exploring related works in modern art history—those that approach invisibility but are still able to be seen and those that are fully invisible, such as Robert Barry’s Psychic Series. Colpitt’s essay in turn served as fodder for a new body of work by Thornton. In nine works on paper and a pin-pricked piece created in situ at testsite, Colpitt’s essay is visually reiterated but never fully legible. An accompanying publication, conceived and written by critic and curator Gavin Morrison, documents the exhibition.

Official Website: http://www.fluentcollab.org/testsite/