June 16, 2012
Fragmental Museum
47-10 Austell Place, Long Island City, NY 11101
Fostering an immersion into spirit mediumship as a phenomenon both distinctly feminine and radically interior, The Visitation marks the first in a series of collaborative investigations with cultural anthropologist, Erin Yerby. Sculpture installation, sound installation, performance (Ides) and video (Yerby) combine to reconfigure the industrial arena as site for recalling and foretelling ecstatic transmissions. Modeled on the figure of the engastrimyth, Ides' three-channel composition for voice is conducted in real time through a fourth channel, another mouth, subject to all the chanciness of an electromagnetic field, itself a plane for the spirit/s, if not hysteric/s.
+ Ed Bear (audio engineer) + Emma Lipp (costume design)
+ Ed Bear (audio engineer) + Emma Lipp (costume design)
THE VISITATION from Bethany Ides on Vimeo.
