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By: Kieran O'Shea
Article published: 12th May 08
Medium: Performance
Drink: Long neck in a paper bag
What:
The Telepathy Project
Where:
Forum Theatre, cnr Russell and Flinders sts, Melbourne
When:
Tues May 20 - Sat May 24, 4.30-8.30pm
Closing party Sat May 24, 9pm
How much:
Free
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Veronica and Sean's work has been supported by a City of Melbourne Arts Grant
Veronica Kent and Sean Peoples are Scanners. Well, I can't prove it but they have been openly dabbling with telepathy as a means to explore the dynamics and boundaries of people's relationships with one another. Having already telepathically curated exhibitions and acted as mediums between a group of people in a gallery and a lake full of eels, they know their stuff.
For four hours per night over five nights the artists will place themselves in separate windows of the Forum and send messages to each other. The telepathic exchanges will be written down every 15 minutes on time-coded Post-It notes and then stuck on to the window for the passing audience to read and compare. The notes will be used as text for a print publication produced at the end of the season.
Now, I'm fairly sure the mothers of both artists weren't treated with a drug during pregnancy that turned their kids into mind-reading phonemes who can cause people's (not the artists', that would suck as an exhibition) heads to explode. Either way, if their exchanges don't match up too well I wouldn't complain about it.