Media Release
For immediate release
January 16, 2007
Walter Phillips Gallery brings murder mystery into focus
Simone Jones & Lance Winn, Knock
January 18 to March 4, 2007
Opening Reception: Thursday, January 18, 7 - 9 p.m.
Artists in attendance PLAN B, a curatorial space
Walter Phillips Gallery, The Banff Centre
Information: 403.762.6281
With a play on space and reality, the video installation Knock by Simone Jones and Lance Winn bends our perceptions of linear storytelling. Opening this week in the Walter Phillips Gallery’s PLAN B space, Knock wraps video projection and kinetic devices around an absurd and unresolved murder mystery theme. The work uses a continuous loop of recorded video that puts the viewer outside and inside the experience at the same time. Only tangentially related to the evident murders of three people, Knock is more about the viewing experience itself.
Curated by the Walter Phillips Gallery’s Sylvie Gilbert, Knock cleverly uses the same robotic unit to project the images that was used to record them. The result is a very physical experience - the images pan across the walls and onto the floor of the gallery space surrounding the viewer within the action. Viewers have to adjust their perceptions to take in not only the story of the love triangle between Knock’s characters, but also the movement of the camera and the physical space of the set as it was recorded.
Simone Jones and Lance Winn
A graduate of the Ontario College of Art and Design and York University, Simone Jones has been making kinetic sculpture since 1989. Her work in film, video, and performance has recently toured Spain, France, Holland, and Hungary, and she has had shows at the Agnes Etherington Art Centre in Kingston, and the Pittsburgh Center for the Arts in Pennsylvania. After attending Cranbrook Academy of Art and the Rhode Island School of Design, Lance Winn has had work in galleries including the Big Biscuit Gallery in Detroit, and Arti et Amicitiae in Amsterdam. Together, Jones and Winn have been collaborating on image capture and projection machines and installations since 2002, when they were both visiting assistant professors of art at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh.
Media images for Knock:
http://www.banffcentre.ca/media_room/images/wpg/default.asp
For more information about the Walter Phillips Gallery:
http://www.banffcentre.ca/wpg/
Media Contact
Jill Sawyer
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