Hello,
My name is Kit and I will be venturing out to Sri Lanka at the beginning of next year to develop new work that focuses on the film set of ‘The Bridge on the River Kwai’ (1957) at Kitugala. I’m flying out there on the 15th of January and will be posting throughout my residency at Sura Medura, so watch this space!
Visual Artist Kit Mead has been awarded the Sura Medura Residency.
He will be in Sri Lanka in January 2013.
Artist Statement
Kit Mead’s practice responds to the dynamics of a period of time being defined by uncertainty and transition, focusing on how technological progress is altering our response to the expectation and awareness of temporal change. Through rigidly structured processes, Kit uses time as a material to create situations where there is a collision between systems of technology, history, the cinematic and the experience of ‘lived time’.
For the Sura Medura Residency Kit will be developing new work that explores the blurring of fact and fiction through the history of the Sri Lankan film set for ‘Bridge on the River Kwai’, 1957.
