Thoughtograpy: Mirror, mirror

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A collection of different handmirrors, coated with Liquid Light, a photoemulsion. The coated mirror will be exposed to light and will constantly absorb – without any hiding- the reflections and projections of the onlookers. As the coating of the emulsion leaves the mirror somehow blurry or seemingly blind, it appearantly denies its purpose. The constant light exposure provokes a constant change of the emulsion until its supersaturation, – a very subtle process though, that remains invisible and unnoticeable to the viewer. The image within the emulsion may only be revealed throughout processing, which will never happen.

Thoughtographic Experiments

Today I placed several sheets of photographic paper, sealed in two layers of black, light tight envelopes, that I always use for my experiments, behind especially chosen carriers in the studio. A Mirror, A Painting and A Book. For a period of one week, these sensitive creatures will be hidden, absorbing witnesses of all activities around here. Alleged secrets will be brought to light throughout developing processes next Monday, the 22nd of Februray.

1. Mirror

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2. Painting

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3. Book

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Kabinet For Thoughtography: Experimental Exhibition Project

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The exhibition project Kabinet For Thoughtography is having its own space now. The site is still under development, but will be regularily updated and outdated, added and substracted underlayered and overlayered…

The proposed exhibition aimes to reveal and bring to light throughout a very experimental and strictly artistic approach nowadays unknown or long forgotten thoughtographic researches of the 19th and 20th century. It further seeks to break open their scientific shell and allow new and different perspectives, playful possibilities and directions.

This exhibition is a hidden, interactive installation, an experimental kabinet and laborint of thoughtographic exposure. Secretely embedded in a setting that reminds of the aesthetics of the british television series The Avengers, the concept of the exhibion foresees different interweaving layers. Laborint, Limbo and Lichtung. An eye catching camouflage for a rather delicate if not invisible content.

Any invitiations to a physical exhibition space, or possible integrations of parts of it into already existing structures or concepts are very welcome! The infinitely revised german and english version of the proposal will be hopefully soon ready…

Its new home winkerwatson.com was made possible thanks to the new and wonderful webtool hotglue.me!

Thoughtography – Telepathy

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Another telepathic/thoughtographic experiment with Lindsay Brown artist and explorer of the mysteries and secrets of underwaterworlds and aethers. Overnight exposure. I placed five light tight enveloped photographic paper under my bed positioned where my head would lie. Two envelopes with one sheet each, and one envelope with three sheets. One envelope showed above result after processing.

Katier Shows: Casting: Visite Ma Tente – 22/01/10

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Visite ma Tente
Schwedenstr 18b
13357 Berlin
info@visitematente.com
www.visitematente.com

Ende Januar wird Visite ma tente in der Schwedenstraße “abgebaut”.
Daher möchten wir Sie gerne zu einer letzten Blitzausstellung einladen, um die letzten 5 Jahre
gemeinsamer Arbeit zusammen zu feiern.

Casting

Carla Ahlander | Bettina Allamoda | Guillaume Alimoussa | Michelle Alperin | Nándor Angstenberger | Astrali/Pierce | Joel Bartholomeo | Manon Bellet | Cecile Belmont | Katja Brinkmann | Matthew Burbidge| Nicolas Cilins | Alexine Chanel | Pascal Danz| Stefan Davi | Kane Do | Bruno Dorn | Jürgen Eisenacher | Christel Fetzer | Asi Föcker | Matthias Fritsch | Anne Gathmann | April Gertler | Robert Gfader| Maurus Gmür | Pierre Granoux | Julien Grenier| Sabine Gross | Kathrin Günter | Lise Harvey | Vanessa Henn | Iréne Hug | Sofia Hultén | Hervé Humbert | Peter Jap Lim | Thomas Jocher | Halina Kliem | Wolf von Kries | Käthe Elke Kruse | Simone Lanzenstiel/ Tom Früchtl | Julia Lazarus | Delphine Lefort | Sabina van der Linden | Gerard Mantz | Tatiana Masuric | Matthias Mayer | Karin Müller | Yvonne Paul | Lilla von Puttkammer | Joe Neave | Tere Recarens | Anne Rinn | Martin G. Schmid| Michael Schultze | Ivan Seal | Eva Seufert | Amelia Seymour | Heidi Sill | Catriona Shaw | Assan Smati | Albert Weis | Maya Weyermann | Gernot Wieland | Barbara Wille | Christina Woditschka | Shingo Yoshida | Claudia Zweifel.

Eröffnung Freitag, den 22. Januar 2010

Öffnungszeit:
23. – 24. 01. 2010, 16-20 Uhr

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Galerie Visite ma tente
Schwedenstraße 18b |13357 berlin
Tel +49 (0) 178 7060247
info@visitematente.com
www.visitematente.com

Ansprechpartner:
Marie-josé Ourtilane

Verkehrsverbindungen:
U 8 Pankstrasse
U 9 Osloerstrasse
Tram M13, 50
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Katier shows: The Red Velvet Curtain Cult presents a late night event at the Whitechapel Art Gallery

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The Red Velvet Curtain Cult presents

‘VOYEUR’

A late night event at The Whitechapel Art Gallery .

Thursday 3rd December 2009. 7-10pm.

Free

For their Fourth instalment at the Whitechapel Art Gallery the Red Velvet Curtain Cult presents ‘Voyeur’. An evening of gazing, peeking and lurking with live art, installation, films, readings, audio and oddities inspired by the works and processes of Sophie Calle.

Expect to be spied upon, interrogated, stalked, perplexed, entranced & mystified by this evening exploring voyeuristic tendencies. You will find works in the shadows, intimate encounters, information overload, your thoughts laid bare and secrets exposed…

Serenaded by ‘Love Stop Repeat’ & DJ Sy Hackney, compered by Brian Dawn Chalkley.

Riffat Ahmed, Jack Catling, Amanda Castro with the Jeremis Iron Arts Collective, Rebecca Chitty & David King, Tamara Erde, Camila Fiori, Emma Gibson, The Great Antagonist, Kathrin Günter, Gabo Guzzo, Poppy Jackson, Mary Beth Morossa, Marianna & Daniel O’Reilly, Simon Raven, Alexa Reid, Sarah Ruff, Alexandra Santos, Nicola Singh, Folie a Trois, Richard Webb, Kate Wiggs, Sonya Chenery & Joanna Austin, Andy Wood, Nicola Woodham & Robin Bale

Curated by Lili Spain and Sarah Grainger-Jones.

Thoughtography – Telepathy

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These are the results of the second experiment exploring telepathic projections onto photosensitive materials. The first image is a close up from the influenced photographic paper, the second one is the negative side of the instant film, as the positive is too subtle to be scanned. Also the photographic paper had to be zoomed about 200% to be able to reveal the tiny stars covering the entire sheet.

Kabinett for thoughtography and intraocular lights

I would like to publish the results of two artists, who have been experimenting with my “thoughtographic device” at a show “Wach sind nur die Geister” in Dortmund, Phoenix Halle:

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Barbara Breitenfellner, Exposure ca. 15 minutes, Polaroid 667, black and white, 3000 ASA

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Sam Ashley, Exposure ca. 15 minutes, Polaroid 667, black and white, 3000 ASA

Light Unseen – Workshop Results

Beside various experiments throughout last saturdays workshop about thoughtography, including projections and concentration onto different photographic materials, testing phosphoric influences and eye-kamera construction, the heartpiece of the day was the revelation of an overnight and long distance telepathic projection experiment with Lindsay Brown, artist and researcher, currently based in Dundee in Scotland.

Three different photographic devices were prepared and assembled in the darkroom kabinett: a polaroid land camera, loaded with a Fuji FP-3000 b instant film, a sealed sheet of photographic paper and a little piece of an Ilford 3200 ASA photographic film.

While the Ilford filmstrip remained unexposed and didn’t show any result, the Fuji instant film and the photographic paper did indeed.

I pulled out the first polaroid and it came out snow white, which means that it got completely overexposed:

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Fuji FP-3000 b – 1

I pulled out the follow-up image, just as I always do to test the film.
This is the result:

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Fuji FP-3000 b – 2

Afterwards I developed the paperprint in the darkroom:

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The scratches and fingerprints are from me during the developing process, as the paper is very fragile, but the round shape in the upper center of the image came out after ca. 3 minutes of developing time.

My next focus will be on gathering thoughts, reflections and speculations about how the photographic material could get influenced and exposed. I can feel already, that this not going to be easy at all. But as I have been experimenting with thoughtography now for quite a while in a very practical way, it is time to find some words and theories to accompany the images.

Meanwhile, Lindsay and me will continue to experiment within the field of telepathic projections.