John Oswald, video projection still, instandstillnessence, 2004. Credit: Courtesy of the artist
Exhibitions
John Oswald: instandstillnessence
Atrium
25 - 27 May 2006
In conjunction with the Second International and Interdisciplinary Conference on Emotional Geographies at Queen's University, John Oswald presents his spectacular, multi-layered, light fresco instandstillnessence. This three-screen version runs continuously during gallery hours for three days only. The artist will give a talk entitled "Endlessness" in the exhibition at 5:30 pm on Thursday 25 May.
Based in Toronto, John Oswald is an internationally-renowned composer, musician and artist, whose achievements were recognized with the Governor General's Award for Media Arts in 2004. instandstillnessence incorporates portrait photographs of friends, acquaintances and strangers captured in the artist's Census project. Using stop-time technique chronophotics, these images are assembled digitally in a shifting, cinematic-scale projection of a ghostly crowd in which individual figures slowly emerge and recede. Moving and visually stunning, Oswald's piece enacts the fleeting encounters and extended presences that constitute our experience of one another.
Jan Allen
Presented in collaboration with the Department of Geography at Queen's University.