A Virus Walks Into A Bar, 2018, 20’06”
作品敘述HIV病毒粒子的生命周期,這病毒彷彿來自《加冕街》、《迷離劫》和《天線得得B》三者之間的混合體。作品中的角色包括人形的病毒衣殼,還有其他重要的蛋白質、輔因子,例如多聚腺苷酸特異性因子6,以及受攻擊的細胞核,也就是那個被熟客(細胞質)包圍的酒吧女侍應。片中服裝由John Walter親製,其手作質感與影片的高清影像形成強烈對比。
由Southwark Park Galleries, London及HOME, Manchester共同委約,Wellcome and Arts Council England支持,屬John Walter大型創作計劃CAPSID一部分。
John Walter
John Walter is a London-based artist working across a diverse range of media including painting, performance, moving image, installation and curating. He is currently artist-in-residence at Kavli Institute for Nanosciences at TU Delft, The Netherlands.
Previous collaborations with scientists (CAPSID, 2018 and Alien Sex Club, 2015) have informed his current interest in viruses of the mind and take an increasingly Darwinist view of human production informed by Dawkins’ notion of the meme as a unit of cultural replication equivalent to the gene in biology. He was awarded the 2016 Hayward Curatorial Open for Shonky: The Aesthetics of Awkwardness.
Recent exhibitions include: Lockdown Tarot (Plymouth Art Weekender, 2020); Queer Algorithms (Gus Fisher Gallery, Auckland, 2020); Co-Factors (Suttie Arts Space, Aberdeen, 2020); Brexit Gothic (DKUK, 2019); Crep Suzette – A Shoe Show (with Bert McLean, LUVA, 2019); The Fourth Wall (Look Again Festival Aberdeen, 2019); Booze Guitar (Matt’s Gallery, 2018); CAPSID (CGP and HOME, 2018); Somewhere in Between (Wellcome Collection, 2018); Coming Out: Sexuality Gender and Identity (Walker Art Gallery, 2017). Wellcome and Arts Council England have supported his work. The Arts Council Collection and The Walker Art Gallery in Liverpool have collected his work.