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Paul Elliman is a London-based artist, designer and writer exploring the mutual interests of technology and language. His work, which draws on a range of resources from found typographies to professional voice-overs, has been included in exhibitions and collections in London’s Tate Modern and the Victoria and Albert Museum, the Anyang Public Art Project in Korea, Basel Kunsthalle and New York’s New Museum of Contemporary Art. He has taught at the Yale University School of Art since 1997, and as thesis supervisor for the Werkplaats Typografie in Arnhem, Netherlands, since 2003.

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In the air and on the ground
Thinking about the intersections of language and the built environment, or of writing and the voice, (PE’s) work engages with certain technical structures of human language and communication. Along these lines, Elliman will show a few examples that play with or invert some of the conventions of graphic modernism, using letters formed from discarded or broken parts of the city, and human voices that speak as if they were typographical signage. 

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About the images

‘Spells’, Monteverdi, 2009, ouija board for George Maciunas printed on silk, with green polycarbonate lens | Untitled spirit photograph, 2008 | ‘Dead Scissors’, 2007 | ‘OrKID IPEDIQ DOS X/R’, 2008

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