Ian Johnston - Fine Line: Check Check
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Alternator Centre for Contemporary Art 103-421 Cawston Ave, Rotary Centre for the Arts, Kelowna, British Columbia V1Y 6Z1
Opening reception and artist talk: Friday, March 15 from 6 - 8:30 pm (Artist talk at 8 pm)
Opening Reception: Friday, March 15, 2019, 6-8:30 p.m.
Alternator Centre for Contemporary Art will be exhibiting Ian Johnston’s Fine Line: Check Check. This is the inaugural presentation of the artists work as part of a cross-Canada exhibition series, that will also see the work travel to various locations including Grand Forks and Montreal.
Stepping into a space intersected by four large projection screens, visitors to the Alternator will be surrounded on all sides by a looping series of videos in a sequence that subtly choreographs the audience’s movement, and is accompanied by a four-channel score from composer Don Macdonald.
Johnston describes this work and his turn towards video as stemming from the consideration of an obsessive behaviour familiar to probably all viewers, namely our “highly emotionally-charged relationship to screens and digital devices” and that “the installation harnesses the knee-jerk nature of our conditioned responses to visual and auditory cues not only the pinging of a smartphone, but even going back as far as silent film.”
‘We are excited to be hosting Fine Line: Check Check in the Okanagan”, states the Alternator’s Artistic and Administrative Director, Lorna McParland...”this work provides the opportunity to examine our ongoing relationships with screen culture, which is one that is so predominant in all parts of our routine, but not one that we regularly consider its impact on our wellbeing.”