Yearly Archives: 2018
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Signal (Blue Red Yellow) at Art in the Open 2018
Signal (Blue Red Yellow) is a multimedia installation piece depicting a disagreement between two lamps regarding the colour of the background behind them. By displaying and accentuating follies that come with blind faith in our personal biases I hope to unite people in the absurdity in this work. The installation consists of a colour field projection behind a pair of lights, a projection of solid colour sequencing from blue to red to yellow and back to blue again. The two lamps are attached to a controller blinking in turn, communicating with each other in morse code in a call and response of messages with a translation of these communications for the audience. One lamp will blink the message “THE COLOUR IS BLUE” and other will respond with “NO ITS NOT” .. “THE COLOUR IS RED” etc. this argument will repeat its self for the duration of the exhibition.
The two lights become placeholders for apposing parties in our society. Disagreements are common between opposing and conflicting ideologies, when given the opportunity to surround ones self with like minded peers our biases and viewpoints is magnified to outrageous proportions. By following, reading, and communicating only within our common circles we strengthen our bonds of thought, enforcing blinders on our perception. By becoming impenetrable to concepts at odds with our prevailing narrative foreign ideas become infections in need of antidote or attack. If we lose our ability of empathizing with ideologies contrary to our own we risk a society that deteriorates and cannot band together. With felt disparities between people becoming stronger I believe we have a need for togetherness and shared experience. We have no time for talk highlighting differences between us, through the depiction of a simple and irrational disagreement it is my hope that people are united by the folly of this work.
In 2015 I ran a contest for prints of posters featuring automatically generated poems I had found in my spam folder. To be entered into the contest participants had to give their contact details.
Three years later in 2018 I mailed each of the participants a poem taken from a bestselling book, the “i’s” in the poem replaced with their own names.
Signal (Relation) was informed by cultures and nations necessity to tell and retell our stories of experiences, passing knowledge on for the benefit of future generations. The work consists of a circle of lights relaying a message in morse code pulses, passing a message on to the next light they enact traditions of storytelling across generations.
The importance of storytelling to our collective histories is vital to the survival of any culture. Storytelling traditions and practices make up the fabric of all of our cultures and we depend on the relation of these practices over the long line of time, from our ancestors to our descendants. Rooting ourselves to the knowledge of our place in the world lets our past inform choices today.
Chives Window, Halifax, Nova Scotia, March 2018
Flock is emerging artist Ben Mosher‘s exhibition featuring drawings of birds that will definitely make you smile. This delightful impromptu exhibition is only on for two weeks so catch it at the Corridor Gallery before it closes on January 30.
Of the series, Mosher says:
Flock is series of bird drawings; encouraging, odd small works that emerged from humorous doodles that have been captivating me. Included is four small paintings and two calendars. Each calendar contains 12 hand drawn birds and their motivational sayings to inspire you in 2018!
You can order Mosher’s 2018 Bird Calendar using this form: http://goo.gl/FDuavC
Ben Mosher is an artist based in Halifax, Nova Scotia. Mosher is informed by interests in digital and mechanical modes of communication, with a deep appreciation for written and visual forms of everyday poetic language. These concerns have directed recent projects in micro communications systems and intuitive and meditative processes of making.
To see more of Ben Mosher’s work visit: benmosher.ca
