Telepathy in Five Scenes

Telepathy in Five Scenes was written for Beatriz Olabarrieta’s exhibition Book! don’t tell me what to do at the Parallel Oaxaca gallery in Mexico City, Feb 7 – Mar 18, 2017.

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Scene I

It is an autumn night.
No moon.
No light.

Scene II

A slip of silk fleets past. There is a door.

Scene III

Michel Foucault is bent over peering through a keyhole. He is overwhelmed by the vision of a streaming phantasmagoria and then he is struck down in horror when an eye appears to look back at him. He blacks out. Visions of authority.

 Scene IV

Afternoon.  Los Angeles. Maya Deren.

Scene V

The phone rings.
It is your mother, but she is no longer alive.

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Telepathy in Five Scenes was written for Beatriz Olabarrieta’s exhibition Book! don’t tell me what to do at the Parallel Oaxaca gallery in Mexico City, February 7 – March 18, 2017. Formulated as an installation, the ‘book’ in question is a collection of ‘short stories’ written during the period of the exhibition.
The stories in the exhibition were written in collaboration with writers and artists, both living and dead, including; Paul Becker, Martha Graham, Robert Walser, J.S.T Urruzola, Gabriela Acha, Trish Lyons and Adolfo AK, with whom the artist has created a narrative and fictional space triggered by the sculptural motifs and scenarios in her installation. Assembling the artworks and their corresponding short stories as a readable organism.