‘Crystal Dick’ is a new short video work that explores the relationship between recreational drug use and HIV transmission risk. Using costume, performance and 3D graphics the piece employs the slang of methamphetamine (commonly known as ‘crystal meth’ on in this case one of it’s street name’s ‘tina’) to address the complex subject of bareback sex and HIV transmission through Carnivalesque means.
John Walter’s work is a channeling of social anthropology and psychoanalysis; investigating in either direction the macrocosm of the world outside and the microcosm of an internal world. His work, which includes painting, object, video, installation and performance, is a dissection of the self, revealing both narcissist and Everyman. It draws reference from both high and low culture filtering them and synthesizing them into Walter’s very consistent ‘Maximilist’ aesthetic.
John Walter lives and works in London. He graduated with an MFA from the Slade School of Fine Art in 2003 and is currently working on his PhD at University of Westmister entitled ‘Alien Sex Club: How architecture affects the mind and body in cruising and alternatives to antiretroviral therapy’. In 2006, he was awarded the Sainsbury Scholarship and was resident at The British School at Rome (2006-2008). Recent solo exhibitions including ‘The Rococo Riots’ at VITRINE Bermondsey Street, London (2013) and ‘The Oil Baron’s Club’ at Smart Gallery, Aberdeen (2012). His work has been exhibited internationally including group shows at: Barbican Gallery, London; MEANTIME Project Space, London; The Nunnery, London; and Ferrate Gallery, Israel. He organizes ‘Two Peacocks’ an ongoing large-scale collaboration that saw its first iteration at Gallery North in Newcastle in 2011.
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