Fig. 1: Plenum #3 (2010, video installation) installed in Chapel of Keble College Oxford, March 2010, photo: Uwe Ackermann
Ken Wilder is an artist who originally trained at the RCA as an architect. While in the past he has both taught and practiced architecture, and is currently course director for the MA Interior and Spatial design at Chelsea, Ken now makes site-responsive sculptural installations. He completed his PhD at Chelsea in 2009. He has exhibited widely in the UK since 1998, and has also exhibited in Ulm, Germany (funded by British Council). In March 2010 he installed the first contemporary installation in the Chapel at keble College Oxford. He has had a number of articles published, including for the British Journal of Aesthetics, Estetika (forthcoming), Filmwaves, and Image and Narrative (e-journal). The book Spaces and Narrations (with Julian Maynard Smith) was published in 1998 (funded by Arts Council of England).
Themes of Ken's work include problematizing the relation between artwork and beholder in painting and video art; the role of visual imagination in spectatorship; reception aesthetics and relation to analytical philosophy; the relation between artwork and spatial container.
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