Salon 44
Caroline Wright
Conversations with Friends
11 March, 2005 6.30pm - 9.30pm
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The art of conversation is something of an enigma to Caroline Wright. Her work has explored both participatory and encountered conversations and in Conversations with Friends she responds directly to the face-to-face experience of person-to-person dialogue.

Over several years Caroline has been looking at the roles we adopt during everyday verbal exchanges, challenging the boundaries of personal space through her work and trying to manifest visually the physical act of speaking.

In Conversations with Friends, guests are welcomed into the comfort of the family home and invited to relax in an armchair as they strike up a conversation with the artist. They can enjoy the ritual pleasantries on meeting a new acquaintance, discussing the delights of everyday events and passing time over the discourse of idle chatter.

During this meeting, Caroline will use her speaking mouth in an attempt to record the conversation photographically asking her guests to allow their portrait to be taken in a very intimate way. These variable minute works will be shown on the home website.

Biog: Caroline Wright studied Fine Art at Norwich
School of Art and Design. Her practice is interdisciplinary
combining performance, sound, video, photography and installation. Since 1999 her work has revolved around the subject of human communication and has a strong
emphasis on research based material.

Caroline's most recent projects include The visitor
experience - an intervention and performance work that turned an unprepossessing studio yard into a heritage trail for the show Wide Open in Cambridge, Gossip Columns
for Norwich Fringe Festival and Listen to me for Hubbub, Globe Gallery, North Shields.

She is currently engaged on a research residency, Lines
of Communication, based in the Speech and Language Therapy Department of Addenbrookes Hospital, Cambridge supported by Arts Council England East. Caroline received an Artsadmin bursary in 2003.




Booking information
To book a slot with Caroline, call for a 6.30pm, 7.30pm or 8.30pm one to one. Individual interactions approx 4 mins.

home is a live art and performance production company which, researches, presents and promotes live events by contemporary artists in a range of spaces and contexts, with audience entertainment and participation as an underlying principle.
Our main space in London is a Victorian
semi in Camberwell, which serves as the
site for a programme of intimate salon evenings and larger scale performance events, based inside the unadulterated domestic surroundings of a family house.