Hypnotic Show

Hypnotic Show

on November 14, 2009, at 7:30pm

An ever-growing collection of scripts, ideas and works by:

Julieta Aranda
Olivier Babin
Francisco Camacho
Derick Carner
Asli Cavusoglu
Etienne Chambaud
Audrey Cottin
Torreya Cummings
Gintaras Didziapetris
Cerith Wyn Evans
Michael Fliri
Mark Geffriaud
Fabien Giraud & Raphaël Siboni
Loris Gréaud
Graham Gussin
Will Holder
Pierre Huyghe
Joachim Koester
Gabriel Lester
Jennifer Di Marco
Patrizio Di Massimo
Nicholas Matranga & Francesca Bennet
Piero Passacantando
Cesare Pietroiusti
Matthew Shannon
Snowden Snowden
Gareth Spor
Maryelizabeth Yarbrough
Carey Young

as well as a one night session conducted by Marcos Lutyens
in English

Curated by  Raimundas Malasauskas  

FAQ about "Hypnotic Show":

Q: What is Hypnotic Show?
A: A temporary social structure of engaging into creative cognitive acts through shared practices of art and hypnosis.  
[...]  

Q: How does Hypnotic Show work?
A: When all spaces undergo gentrification and you think that your very inner subjectivity will remain a space of a strictly personal order your brain-waves are being measured against you.  

Q: No, no, but how does it work technically?
A: A number of invited artists have submitted proposals for Marcos Lutyens to be performed on the audience through a session of hypnosis.  
[...]  

Q: What are the inspirations of Hypnotic Show?
A: Works of many artists including Graham Gussin, Matt Mullican, Ann Lislegaard, Pedro Reyes, Warren Neidich, Cerith Wyn Evans; conversations with Fernando Delmar, Pascal Rousseau as well as the work of all the artists participating in Hypnotic Show with proposals.  

Q: Is Hypnotic Show about collaboration?
A: Not really, but the relationship between hypnotist and the audience should be be described as collaboration.

Limited number of seats, please reserve at contact@kadist.org

In collaboration with Kunstverein in Amsterdam, where a session will take place on November 13 at 7:30pm.

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