Durational Painting: gifting, grafting, hosting, collaborating

This thesis takes as its focus contemporary painting, and develops an
understanding of painting as a time-based medium. My research project
addresses the array of strategies artists employ to produce durational
paintings, a term I have coined as a means of referring to paintings that
destabilise the traditional idea of painting as a static object, hung on a wall.

The medium of painting embraces other mediums, such as performance and
installation, to yield durational paintings. These paintings engage people in
their production: vitally, they are participatory and are produced through
collaboration. Furthermore, these paintings employ materials imbued with
particular properties, such as longevity or, conversely, ephemerality.

In time-based media collections and in existing histories of participatory and
relational practices painting is absent: these omissions are redressed by the
present study. Now that painting is time-based, it is ‘live’.