Christopher Braddock’s recent moving image and sound installation entitled ‘The Artist Will Be Present’ (2008) at St Paul St, Auckland, positions the body of the artist always one-step-removed from the audience as both ‘documentation’ and the event itself. His artist-in-residence project at Melbourne’s RMIT University (2007) tested modes of audience participation with part-sculptural objects moulded off the artist’s body and where viewers were invited to handle the objects under video surveillance. By these operations Braddock seeks out an expanded notion of the ‘live’ encounter. In this sense a kind of misperformance problematises the ‘live’ by never offering up the ‘presence’ of his body.

Collections that hold his work include: Te Papa Tongarewa: Museum of New Zealand, Auckland Art Gallery, Chartwell Trust, Christchurch Art Gallery Te Puna O Waiwhetu, NZ Post.

Braddock’s forthcoming projects include a curated performance and video installation at PSi#15 (Performance Studies International), Zagreb 24-28 June, 2009. This project entitled Random Entrant includes the artists Alicia Frankovich and David Cross.