More Great Art...

Check out this collaboration by some artists from right nearby - in Victoria. Their installation was my favourite thing at 2005's Swarm, the annual fiesta of alternative art, that I only saw one show of last week, much to my chagrin, while I was on the way to have drinks at a new restaurant/lounge with unisex bathrooms in Gastown. But I digress.









Say whaaaat? If it's not great art to make a magical post-apocalyptic environment featuring a tiny revolving world, a one-man cave and countless other surprising, delightful and interactive treats, then we should all just give up and let some other species have a chance to run things. Like the dolphins did for us that day so long ago. Again, I digress.

This show was so rad. The space was totally transformed into a futuristic cartoon wasteland full of rotting technology responding to viewers in odd and incomprehensible ways.

See? It's a year later and I'm still gushing about it. Too awesome!

Plus, I have heard from people that live in Victoria that Emi Honda had an amazing grad show/piece - with a robotic bird that flapped its wings in inverse relation to the real-time traffic congestion data. Talented much?

I would love to know what she/they are working on now. Local artists to boot!

The artist are Scott Evans, Emi Honda and Jordan McKenzie. The piece is called The Great Scattered Remnants. None of above has a good web presence. The gallery's description is as follows. I'm James Lipton. Have a great night.

The Great Scattered Remnants is a collaborative, growing environment, constructed by Scott Evans, Emi Honda and Jordan McKenzie, long-term collaborators from Victoria. Using a wide variety of specifically chosen found objects and post-consumer detritus, as well as lo-tech electronics and sound, the artists create a fictive site that splices traditional notions of nature with the surrealist synthetics of our popular, often apocalyptic, imagination. Referencing science fiction, psychedelia and the pictorial tradition of landscape art and Natura Morta, The Great Scattered Remnants is a place where plastics repair themselves, the artificial acts naturally and where we sweat glycolic acid and grow our own acrylic nails. Half dream world, half sociological critique, this exhibition transplants the artists' subconscious into the physical space of the gallery through a complex network of stream-of-conscious installations.