Outset Israel supported the production of Karen Russo’s project Meditations on a Triangle which premiered at her solo show at CCA, Tel Aviv (April 2010). The project was part of Karen’s continued research of the para-psychological phenomenon of Remote Viewing, a mental faculty developed by the CIA during the Cold War for military purposes, which allows a Remote Viewer to describe a target that is inaccessible to normal senses. In a series of drawings and video installations based on Remote Viewing sessions, she explored how this practice may influence art and vice versa.
Is it possible to Remote View works of art, what are the implications of such an experiment on the way in which we think, perceive and experience art? Meditations on a Triangle included a video by Karen of a Remote Viewing session of a Kandinsky painting along with three sculptures by British artists Shezad Dawood, Mark Titchner and Jeremy Millar. The project explored whether works of art possess a spiritual core or energy, which may be captured and communicated, and questions in what dimension works of art exist.
The video was acquired by the Arts Council Collection in 201, as a gift of the artist and Outset Contemporary Art Fund 2011. Meditations on a Triangle, 2010, HD video, 14 min, and three art objects by Mark Titchner, Shezad Dawood and Jeremy Millar
ON VIEW: 22nd April - 17th June 2010
