Oh My Oh My

Week 18 - I Went To See The Northern Lights For You, 20.11.2011 by Sarah Gerats

2011-11-20T05:47:00.001-08:00

Week 17 - The Longest Way Round Is The Shortest Way Home by Emi Kodama

2011-11-12T04:25:00.001-08:00

Week 16: 18 Sketches Of You by Bronwyn Lace & Marcus Neustetter

2011-11-06T08:55:00.000-08:00

Week 15: Frank vs The Furnace by Liezel Prins

2011-11-06T08:48:00.000-08:00

Week 14 - Most Best by Ruth Sacks & Simon Gush

2011-10-30T09:56:00.000-07:00

Following Ruth Sacks & Simon Gush's proposal for Oh My, Oh My, Sober & Lonely invited three artists to telepathically project their favorite artwork (for one hour) into the space at Convocation House. The following three artworks were selected:

When Faith Moves Mountains (2002) by Francis Alÿs in collaboration with Rafael Ortega and Cuauhtémoc Medina
Good Feelings In Good Times (2003) by Roman Ondák
Kissing Through Glass (2007) by Jirí Kovanda

Unfortunately due to space constraints, the three channel video projection of When Faith Moves Mountains could not be installed in the gallery space. Jirí Kovanda's Kissing Through Glass was telepathically projected on the left hand side of the gallery, with Kovanda (potentially) standing inside the window, offering passersby a kiss through the glass. Outside the gallery, to the right of the entrance, Roman Ondák's Good Feelings In Good Times sees an invisible queue of people lining up, waiting to enter the space.

Sketch for Ruth Sacks & Simon Gush's Most Best exhibition

Invisible version of Good Feelings In Good Times (2003) by Roman Ondák at Convocation House

Invisible version of Kissing Through Glass (2007) by Jirí Kovanda at Convocation House

Good Feelings In Good Times (2003) by Roman Ondák at the Kunstverein in Cologne

Kissing Through Glass (2007) by Jirí Kovanda at the Tate Modern

Week 13 - Message In A Blanket / Quilt Shaped Object by Liza Corsillo

2011-10-22T10:13:00.000-07:00

Week 12: The Phrase That Came To Me by Niklaus Rüegg

2011-10-15T23:25:00.000-07:00

At 10.30 on Saturday the 15th of October, Sober & Lonely (in Johannesburg) and Niklaus Rüegg (in Zurich) synchronised eating a bowl of Kellog's Corn Flakes at a circular table in the respective cities. Rüegg had instructed Sober & Lonely to prepare beforehand 25 letters cut out of another Kellog's Corn Flakes box. Once the eating ceremony was over, Sober & Lonely vigorously shook the box with the 25 letter cards while at the same time Rüegg had laid out the phrase he wished to transmit. The letters that Sober & Lonely took out of the box one at a time should have spelled out Rüegg's phrase.

Niklaus's phrase transferred from Zurich, 15 October 2011, 10h30

Week 11: Mr Martin Hase Is Offering Advice From His Gifted Born Rabbits by Anne Schiffer

2011-10-08T19:45:00.000-07:00

Week 10: House - Telepathy by Word Association by Robyn Nesbitt & Nina Barnett

2011-10-02T02:04:00.000-07:00

Week 9: We Saw Two Holes, Pierre by Pierre Bismuth

2011-09-24T04:21:00.001-07:00

Week 8: I am not the Messiah, don't follow me by David Sherry

2011-09-18T09:50:00.000-07:00

Week 7: In Greek Zoe Means Life by Audrey Cottin

2011-09-10T08:06:00.000-07:00

Premonition:

I was 19, my girlfriend was 18. My first, true, passionate love.

Her favorite thing besides sex was watching bad movies. I wanted to marry her but

I couldn't stand her taste in "cinema." Sitting in my car outside the video store

as she made her selections, I had a vision: if I married her, I would be a

widower left with our little girl. We broke up for good when I was 20.

She died aged 27 of leukemia, leaving him with a baby daughter

named Grace.

Suicide's Not Painless

Same girlfriend, different situation. I'm 18, she's 17. Having dinner

at a Burger King. Apropos of nothing, I blurt out to her, "If Dave's mom's not dead yet

she's about to kill herself." Dave, by the way, was and still is my very best friend.

Freaked out and no longer hungry, girlfriend and I skip our regularly scheduled

make-out session and I take her home. When I get to my house, my mom

is waiting at the door. "I have some bad news," she says.

"Dave's mom killed herself, didn't she," I say.

"How did you know?" she asked.

I got in my car to find Dave.

Blast From the Past:

I was 17 and in a deep funk, riding my bike on my way to the dentist.

Upon crossing the most dangerous intersection in town, I miscalculated, got hit by a

car. Flew 6-8 feet up in the air, thrown from my ten-speed. Everything

in slow motion, seeing nothing but sky. A voice in my head from

nowhere told me "Tuck your head into your chest. Tuck it now!"

I did, and felt my teeth rattle as my shoulder crashed into the

pavement, followed by my ass. I bounced twice, but no head

injury. "Nice," the voice said sarcastically. Hospital right

there, I folded up into a ball like my bike was now and

got treatment. I later found out 75 years prior, a

female cousin of mine (my age at the time) was

killed in that very same intersection.

Tesla Was Onto Something

My paramour in London never surprises me with email… every day, at

least once when i think about her, like clockwork, she, at that very moment, emails me.

Never the same time, totally random, yet strangely predictable. I know when she's

being bad too… my chakras get all messed up. I live in Los Angeles, btw.

Testimony
I am French and leaving in Brussels in an apartment with flatmates a young English couple. We talk English together.
The all day was like long and felt like my body could not work at all,,, but nothing appearing as symptoms,,,
The pain started late the same night - shaky body - diarrhea - dehydration - uncomfortable with your inside.
I vomit it all - My flatmates were sleeping and I do have wish some one will help me that night - although i did not asked any help,,,
After vomiting what was a food indigestion - i cleaned up and went back to sleep.
The morning was lighter for me but still affected.
I crossed one of my Flatmates and the first thing he says: I dreamed you were sick.
I look at him and reply: I was sick!
My flatmate look at me with a strange expression: Oh I almost wake up to make sure you were ok, but I did not ,,, because it was a feeling you know,,, nothing concrete,,, tangible,,,
I open big eyes and answer: Dam I wish you did I was shit last night !
At this point of the conversation, I realised how much i wished someone to appear into my life scene,,, and it could have happened if my flatmate will believe into his feelings,,, even the intangibles one,,,
If it was telepathic I do not know, what is telepathic actually?

A.J.S

Testimony
Anne - You know tortoise are the oldest animals on earth, they saw dinosaurus disappearance. It’s such a priviledge to communicate with her. In the begining I was not aware of our language till I started to listen better. It’s with the air. Zoe use the air. And now I can even be at home I know the shape and color of the food she desire. Sometime I do miss the point,,,It happens. But I mostly know about her needs because of the air. She is a difficult tortoise to communicate with.

Testimony received 15 September
11th 6:25 Nina thought light went dim, Robyn Blinked
11th 6:20 Robyn and Nina both looked up at the same time to check the time
      8:30 Robyn Said "Bless you", Nina Sneezed
12th 10:15 Robyn has sympathetic pain in big toes because of Nina’s cold
13th 1:40 Robyn got up and left the table, nina said salt
   5:55 Robyn says its her handwriting, Nina says the same
13th – 14th Night Robyn dreams of Nina on Grandfathers farm, Nina dreams of Robyn at a party in the bedroom
15th 9:10 Nina and Robyn both wore blue top with white vest
16th 6:20 Nina had right hand in pocket robyn had left hand in pocket, then Robyn touched nina and shocked her
   6:30 Nina Blogged about cosmos, so did Robyn
17th 7:00 Nina and Robyn both dream of running away and hiding
18th 8:45 Robyn turned off phone at 11:15, Nina texed Robyn at 11:15
19th 12:30 Robyn and Nina both went for the salt at the same time
21st 12:05 Nina said save document when Robyn was already saving
24th 12:05 Nina pre empted Robyn’s need to draw on nice paper
11th  Nina see's the green parrots in New York that Robyn has been talking about

and: http://www.coexistent.net/content/its-not-early

PLEASE SUBMIT TESTIMONIALS TO: ingreekzoemeanslife@gmail.com

Week 6: Readymade / Found Object by Vaughn Sadie

2011-09-03T00:53:00.000-07:00

ROSH PRODUCTS, 1 Henry Nxumalo, Newtown

ELIZABETH MHLONGO, Street Trader, cnr Jeppe & Joubert

Week 5: The writing is not on the wall by Greg Streak

2011-08-29T10:08:00.000-07:00

Week 4: 42 Years Later, I Picked Up The Message (Documentation / Process)

2011-08-23T00:11:00.000-07:00

Noor Nuyten's proposal for Oh My, Oh My

Letter of invitation as part of the exhibition

Contact #1

Contact #2

Contact #3

Contact #4

Contact #5 part 1

Contact #5 part 2

Contact #6

Contact #7 part 1

Contact #7 part 2

Have a look at Robert Barry's Meta Concepts and Stanley Brouwn's piece below:

walk during a few moments very consciously

in a certain direction;

simultaneously an infinite number

of living creatures in the universe

are moving in an infinite number of directions.

Stanley Brouwn, art & project bulletin 11, 1969

Week 4: 42 Years Later, I Picked Up The Message by Noor Nuyten

2011-08-23T00:00:00.000-07:00

Noor Nuyten's 42 Years Later, I Picked Up The Message invites passersby to go on a guided tour of the exhibition at any time of the day. Nuyten will guide you through works of art, the nature of which are a series of thoughts not applicable to language or image. The tour is activated by placing your left foot on an X marked on the pavement and your right foot on a corresponding X. Once the viewer's feet are in place, on the X's, Nuyten will connect telepathically in order to go ahead with the tour.

Week 3: Psychic Psorn by Jim Skuldt (Documentation / Process)

2011-08-14T06:57:00.000-07:00

Jim Skuldt: Proposal

Colour Chart

Examples of colour coded key cards

Trailer gyrations, USA

An excerpt from one of Jim's email before installing Psychic Psorn -->

So, I'm going to try to project colors toward Johannesburg while gyrating from within my backwoods trailer. The colors received are associated with sweet moves. I'll be aiming to get y'all to practice your surf manoeuvres, but who knows what'll happen. I'm going to cluster the colors based not on the correct sequential moves (or gyrations), but on some extremely tasteful color combinations for vivid colors. If you're receptive to these vibrations (and I can tell that you are), you are welcome to share your psorn moves with anyone else nearby, or just hang around and be smug.

Week 3: Psychic Psorn by Jim Skuldt

2011-08-14T06:51:00.000-07:00

On Friday 12 August, Jim Skuldt's Psychic Psorn went up at Convocation House. From Jim -->
Here we go, a fusion of multiple modes of interpretive communication as points of inspiration: Phone sex, video sex (such as skype or chat roulette, or streaming video porn), transmission of binary code into space, morse code, braille, human interpretation of bird calls, charts of sign language, charts of yoga asanas, qigong chi projection, photographic representations of yoga postures, smooth moves seen in porn videos or surf movies.

Week 2: I want you to know that I know (Documentation / Process)

2011-08-10T02:14:00.000-07:00

James Webb: Proposal

7 August, 17h58. Location from where James Webb telepathically sent his proposal.

7 August, 17h58. Lauren von Gogh & Robyn Cook receiving the telepathic message from James Webb.


Robyn Cook: Telepathic Results

Lauren von Gogh: Telepathic Results

Week 2: I want you to know that I know by James Webb

2011-08-10T01:05:00.000-07:00

On Sunday 7 August at 17h58, James Webb telepathically transferred his project proposal to Sober & Lonely who were at SLICA's Suburban Residency house in Sandton, Johannesburg. On Monday the 8th Sober & Lonely installed the project at Convocation House on Jorissen Street. The proposal James Webb sent through telepathically was to 'blackout the windows, make everything dark'.

Week 1: Telepathic Drawing (word & image) by Sober & Lonely

2011-08-03T07:30:00.001-07:00

The Sober & Lonely Institute of Contemporary Art (SLICA) is pleased to announce a new project titled Oh My, Oh My: from the annals of a great telepathic affair, that will be housed at Convocation House, Johannesburg from 1 August to 25 November 2011.

Since 2008 Sober & Lonely have been experimenting with telepathic connections through long distance thought transferral and close-range movement synergy related to the idea of 'telepathy'. The overarching title of this project Oh My, Oh My: from the annals of a great telepathic affair, comes, in part, from Kurt Vonnegut's novel Breakfast of Champions where he explores the release of precognitive and recognitive thought through 'telepathic butterflies'.

18 artists have been invited to propose work specifically for this project that will form part of a four month dialogue and experiment around notions of thought transferral, serendipity and telepathy. In order to create as concise a dialogue as possible, the artists were given a brief with a return slip to fill in and a R100 production budget to work with. A new work will be installed in Convocation House every Friday over the four month period.

The first installment is Telepathic Drawing (word & image) by Sober & Lonely and is up now at Convocation House, until Monday 8 August. (above)