This representation of war concentrates on the motivations that fuel ongoing military and economic conflicts within the ever-changing alliances of international politics. Hand-processed, speed-manipulated 16 mm film loops of a guard dog lapping water, a nuclear blast and an oil-filled nodding donkey blended with appropriated imagery from the movies Wall Street and MacArthur are projected on to a rotating screen. Audio of motors blends with the noise of the projectors to create a feeling of confusion and chaos.

Faith Moosang and Christoph Runne are based in Vancouver. Moosang holds a Master's degree in Fine Arts from Simon Fraser University. Runne is a video and installation artist and a graduate of Simon Fraser University. They have exhibited locally and internationally at venues including the InterUrban Gallery in Vancouver and the Prague Contemporary Art Festival in Czechoslovakia.

A bellwether is a herald or a harbinger. ThreeWalls brings a group of artists, all based in or formerly based in Chicago, whose work imparts a kind of warning or predication. Riding the line of disaster prophesy, the work suggests both cultural and environmental decline, as well as simultaneously deconstructing the meaning of art or the avant-garde as a pilaster of faith in the abstract. Positioning a group of artists whose work creates disruption within the accepted narrative of modern art alongside work that proposes a menacing or hesitant narrative, Bellwether is both a document of current doubt and anxiety in the face of cultural disrepair, as well as a provocation from a group of artists working outside the traditional poles of the avant-garde.

ThreeWalls is a nonprofit organization dedicated to contemporary art practice and discourse. Through the residency program, SOLO project and quarterly publication, Paper and Carriage, ThreeWalls aims to provide opportunities for experimentation, chance, and critical dialogue as well as context for artists, curators and writers at pivotal points in their careers.

Exhibition at the ThreeWalls Gallery, Chicago

August, a Kelowna-based artist, will be exhibiting Wildness- a series of prints that further the artist's fascination with animals and, more generally, with popular conceptions of "nature." August's work is playful but also highly disconcerting as it tends to reshape binary divisions between human and animal, interior and exterior, cute and sinister.

H'anuse Corlett is an Okanagan-based multimedia artist and a member of the Wuikinuxv, Heiltsuk and Klahoose peoples. He will be exhibiting his new work Quqva in Chicago. This meditative t piece includes painting, video, and performative elements. Quqva was born out of H'anuse Corlett's documentary video work in his Wuikinuxv home territory. Interwoven with images of the landscape are captivating soundscapes and a carved mask (also by the artist) that tells a version of the traditional story, The Boy Who Turned into a Salmon.

Fuller is a Winnipeg-born artist whose work is primarily photo based. At Three Walls she will be exhibiting, Dream Log the artist's intriguing investigation into the mystery of dreams. In Dream Log, Fuller creates her own sleep lab, in which she invites people to take a pin-hole camera and a journal home with them to record their dreams.

Each of these artists is preoccupied with questions of transformation, whether interested in the reshapings that the night-mind works on the day's events, the reinvention of a boy as a fish, or even ways of seeing animal-human relations.

This exchange with the Three Walls Gallery in Chicago builds the Alternator's international connections while allowing local artists to reach beyond their regional context to engage in cross-border dialogue that enriches the local cultural environment.