Nocturne Jay Johnson at the Monte Clark Gallery By Mia Thomsett Complete and total lack of inspiration has been a problem for most people I've talked to at Emily Carr this year. Others, like me, stare endlessly at blank canvasses, hoping enlightenment will arrive miraculously. Ideas are not going to come by sitting on your ass. If you need to feel inspired, go see Nocturne at the Monte Clark Gallery (October 2 — 23). Looking at Jay Johnson’s sculptures would convince anyone that making art is fun. Entering into the darkened gallery you feel like you’ve intruded on a feverish child’s hallucination. His work is like a Dr. Seuss book and a Marilyn Manson show put together. Small sculptures made of ancient-looking mecha- nisms, and doll parts with levers and wire, hang on the walls. The materials look like they were found in an old, haunted attic -- he uses ancient wood, broken toys, little skeleton keys, and even a little moving teeter-totter. Some of them move, powered by small motors, in ways which can make you feel most uneasy. A thin rusty hand, probably an old back scratcher, reaches for a lit- tle vile of grey powder. Just before the hand reaches it, the vile is pulled away by a wire. A video involving a moving doll is pro- jected on the back wall. The video, a collaboration by Jay Johnson and Clancy Dennehy, gives a cold, lonely feeling. The room itself is filled with an eery, wintery sound- track, along with subtle noises that the sculptures make while they convulse and churn. Each piece has a different effect; some-" “times | felt sad, sometimes nostalgic, otherwise anxious. My favorite sculpture was a small wooden box with tiny bells sus- pended by thin wire branches. A mechanism inside the box made it shudder rhythmically, progressively shaking the bells faster and faster. | waited, thinking the box would eventually explode into bell climax. Jay Johnson learned how to make moving contrap- tions by taking stuff apart as a kid. He also went to Emily Carr, made tons of art, and graduated in 1993. oe To Se : ] { U X volume fifteen issue one A magazine about art, media, design and culture; produced at the Emily Carr Institute of Art and Design. The following 25778 words include: LY Blood and Guts In disguise as your average video store clerk, Kier-La Janisse is actually a magazine publisher and film festival organizer who's keeping the "deviant cinema" culture alive and growing here in Vancouver. In fact, her fight for the release of Necromantik has proven that there is indeed such a thing as the art house horror flick. g Myths, Media, and Militarism Burnaby East M.P. Svend Robinson talks about the state of politics in a period of consolidating media. §2 Fashion A Good Pair of Bad Shoes [8 Nations, Pollinations, and Dislocations Latin American Art Culture Crosses Borders Dy Every Day, Just Another East, West. Erotica, Obscenity? Japanese photographer Nobuyoshi Araki at the C.A.G. 2s 3rd year Studio Spaces Third year ECIAD Visual Arts students came back to school this fall to discover something missing: their stu- dio spaces. 30 Tales of Foreign Exchange Students S$ Substrates - Nutrient mediums for a bacterial culture. 9 Conduits - Circuitry of critical perspective. IS Junctions - Spaces for creative interactivity. 25 influx. Magazine October 1999 3 Nocturne Jay Johnson at the Monte Clark Gallery By Ma Thomsett ‘Complete and total lack of inspiration has been a problem for most people ve talked to at Emily Carr this year Others, lke me, sare endlessly at blank camasses, hoping enlghtenmenc will arrive miraculously. Ideas are not going to ‘come by sting on your ass. you need to fee inspired go see [Noctume at the Monte Clark Gallery (October 2 ~ 23). Looking at Jy Johnsons sculptures would convince anyone that making ati fun. 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Each piece has a diferent effect some times I fle sad, sometimes nostalgic, otherwise anxious. My favorite sculpture was a small wooden box with tiny bells sus- pended by chin wire branches. A mechanism inside the box made it shudder rhythmically, progressively shaking the bells faster and faster | waited, thinking the box would eventually explode into bel imax. Jay Johnson learned how to make moving contrap- tions by taking stuf apare a aki. He also went to Emly Cary, made tons of art and graduated in 1993, eee Ta a X volume fifteen issue one ‘A magazine about art, media, design and culture; produced at the Emily Carr Institute of Art and Design. The following 25778 words include: Features. 5 Blood and Guts In disguise as your average video store clerk, Kier-La Janisse is actually a magazine publisher and film festival organizer who's keeping the "deviant cinema” culture alive and growing here in Vancouver: In fact, her fight for the release of Necromantik has proven that there is indeed such a thing as the art house horror flick. g Myths, Media, and Militarism Burnaby East M.P.Svend Robinson, talks about the state of politics in a period of consolidating media. 72. Fashion ‘A Good Pair of Bad Shoes J8 Nations, Pollinations, and Dislocations Latin American Art Culture Crosses Borders 2yy Every Day, Just Another East, West. Erotica, Obscenity? Japanese photographer Nobuyoshi Araki at the CAG. 3rd year Studio Spaces Third year ECIAD Visual Arts students [I = z ‘came back to school this fall to : discover something missing: their stu- a i dio spaces. 30 Tales of Foreign Exchange Students Sections Substrates - nuren meson fs bce cue 9 Conduits ~ cry acl perpece 15 Junctions - spas rena mec 25 influx Magazine October 1999 3