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TerminusJess Johnson and Simon Ward

Installation view, Terminus: Jess Johnson and Simon Ward Heide Museum of Modern Art, Photograph: Christian Capurro

With their pioneering use of virtual reality, artists Jess Johnson and Simon Ward have created an immersive installation in which Johnson’s drawings have been transformed from analogue to digital. A mysterious universe of alien architecture, humanoid clones and cryptic symbols will open up to the viewer via a cyber network of travellators and gateways.

Terminus presents a quest, a choose-your-own adventure into the technological. Prepare yourself for a slippage of time and space as your journey propels you through spectacular cyber narratives: you will pass through Fleshold Crossing; take respite in Known Unknown; lose yourself within Scumm Engine; bravely face impending danger in the tower of Gog & Magog; and experience the brink of sensory overload in the psychedelic scenes of Tumblewych. A number of drawings and textile works by Jess Johnson especially selected for Heide are also on display.

When
2 November 2019 – 1 March 2020
Location
Heide Galleries
Curator/s
Jaklyn Babington (National Gallery of Australia)

Installation view, Terminus: Jess Johnson and Simon Ward, Heide Museum of Modern Art, Photograph: Christian Capurro

Installation view, Terminus: Jess Johnson and Simon Ward, Heide Museum of Modern Art, Photograph: Christian Capurro

Installation view, Terminus: Jess Johnson and Simon Ward, Heide Museum of Modern Art, Photograph: Christian Capurro

Installation view, Terminus: Jess Johnson and Simon Ward, Heide Museum of Modern Art, Photograph: Christian Capurro

Installation view, Terminus: Jess Johnson and Simon Ward, Heide Museum of Modern Art, Photograph: Christian Capurro

Installation view, Terminus: Jess Johnson and Simon Ward, Heide Museum of Modern Art, Photograph: Christian Capurro

Installation view, Terminus: Jess Johnson and Simon Ward, Heide Museum of Modern Art, Photograph: Christian Capurro

Installation view, Terminus: Jess Johnson and Simon Ward, Heide Museum of Modern Art, Photograph: Christian Capurro

Jess Johnson and Simon Ward
Terminus
2017-18 (still)
virtual reality experience in five parts: colour, sound.
Commissioned with the assistance of The Balnaves Foundation 2017
Purchased 2018

Jess Johnson and Simon Ward
Terminus
2017-18 (still)
virtual reality experience in five parts: colour, sound.
Commissioned with the assistance of The Balnaves Foundation 2017
Purchased 2018

Installation view, Terminus: Jess Johnson and Simon Ward, Heide Museum of Modern Art, Photograph: Christian Capurro

Installation view, Terminus: Jess Johnson and Simon Ward, Heide Museum of Modern Art, Photograph: Christian Capurro

Jess Johnson
Bloatware Syndrome
2018
drawing in fibre-tip pen, fibre-tip markers and gouache
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, Purchased 2018

Jess Johnson
Bloatware Syndrome
2018
drawing in fibre-tip pen, fibre-tip markers and gouache
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, Purchased 2018

Terminus is a National Gallery of Australia exhibition.

The National Gallery of Australia acknowledges funding support from Visions of Australia, an Australian Government program aiming to improve access to the national collections for all Australians. Terminus was commissioned with the assistance of The Balnaves Foundation.

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