As an artist, I am fascinated by what we train ourselves not to see. We are very good at looking past, around or beyond our infrastructure. We forget the giant dams, massive server farms, huge battery banks and reams of transmission wires that hide behind a simple plug in a wall.
POWER to AMP it UP invites you to playfully, seriously consider our complex relationship with electricity – especially now, as we enter the age of AI and its exponential demands. The show explores how we conduct (literally) as well as generate, transmit, distribute and consume power — the utility of it all.
Art and electricity both involve, at some level, pushback against the dominant flow. In electrical systems, this resistance is measured in ohms. This exhibit is framed as an ohm test, an inquiry into the limits of our passive tolerance. Are we going to continue to just amp it up?
POWER to AMP it UP runs May 9 to 15,2026 at The Art Station in Fernie, BC. Stop by! Share what sparks your imagination.
FUN FACT: We’ve now trapped enough water behind dams to drop global sea level by nearly an inch, slow the Earth’s rotation, and cause polar wander of roughly 1 meter. Source: Natasha Valencic, Harvard University
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