One of the things I got up to when I was an artist-in-residence at the Art Gallery of Ontario was make a game. It’s a simple video choose-your-own-adventure set in the AGO, featuring a rather unusual tour guide.
It was a fun opportunity to work with Rachel again (who was the human spam in Ghosts With Shit Jobs) and a good excuse to poke and prod at the protective membrane that surrounds any institution. The folks at the AGO were really good humoured about it and now have even installed it in the Walker Court arcade for the next little while on its own plinth, as pictured above — possibly til the end of the year. It’s a site specific piece and it’ll only be viewable at the AGO.
But there’ll be an excellent opportunity to check it (and a number of other cool art performances) at the AGO’s First Thursday event on Thursday May 7th, tickets here! It’ll be projected large, myself and Rachel will be there and I’ll be giving a little talk about it close to the beginning of the event.