22 Oct - 15 Nov

 

THE BLUE ROOM: 13 ARTISTS RESPOND IN A PSYCHIC WAY

 OPENING 21 October at 5.30pm

22 October - 15 November

 

ARTISTS' TALK - Saturday 25th October, 12:30pm

Curator Pippa Sanderson

Artists Bekah Carran, e l. august and l. a clifton, Andrea du Chatenier, Violet Faigan, Lonnie Hutchinson, Saskia Leek, Louise Menzies, Dane Mitchell, Rebecca Pilcher, Johanna Sanders, Pippa Sanderson and Stuart Shepherd

 

When artists are asked to respond 'in a psychic way’ to a site, city or idea, what can we expect?  In this case, 13 artists have made work for the Blue Oyster Gallery in response to ‘The Blue Room’, a famous house in Dunedin where Spiritualists conducted séances in the 1920s. Some are skeptics, some believers, but all have made work that raises questions about the fascination with the psychic that haunts us now. The television programmes, the internet sites devoted to spells and spectres, the touring psychics, what are we to make of it all?’

 

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