Terminus: Jess Johnson & Simon Ward

Available Monday May 2 - Friday October 21

Be prepared to have your mind blown with our next interactive exhibition, Terminus. Terminus is a fully immersive virtual reality exhibition by artists Jess Johnson and Simon Ward. With their pioneering use of virtual reality, Johnson’s psychedelic drawings and designs are brought to life through animation by Ward. This exhibition transports viewers to an immersive digital realm, where they will explore surreal landscapes, forms, figures, shapes and buildings. The virtual reality is also complemented by quilts created by Johnson and her mother Cynthia Johnson, which have not been shown in Aotearoa before. This interactive exhibition is one not to be missed!

Prepare yourself for a slippage of time and space as your journey propels you across five distinct realms: you will pass through Fleshhold 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 Tumblewych.

In this programme, the students will participate in the VR experience. Older students will create an artwork based on Johnson’s creative font and younger students will make tessellating tiles that can be displayed as 3D artworks back at school.

Primary, Intermediate and Secondary
Year 1 - 13

Cost: FREE
Duration: 75 - 90 minutes

Group Size: Max 30. One class in the gallery at a time. (Please get in touch if you will be travelling in with two or more classes so that we can suggest some alternative programs for your second group and coordinate a time to swap over).

Key themes: Virtual reality technology, surrealist worlds, animation, design, games, gaming, coding, mazes, world-building and alternate realities.

Subject areas: Visual Art, English, Science and Technology