Oracular Spectacular is a performance/installation that combines artistic intention and parapsychology (psychic phenomena) through automatic drawing. Automatic drawing is the process in which a clairvoyant receives extrasensory perceptive visions in order to create drawn images, a subset of automatic writing.

The performance involves the artist sitting on a rotating, highly decorated, wood platform with 2 psychic clairvoyants surrounding the platform. The artist will concentrate on a concept creating psychic energy for the clairvoyants to psychically translate into drawings. . There will be four sessions of creating four separate sets of drawings. In total the whole performance will last for 1 hour. All the drawings will be attributed to the artist.

This project is not a test to debunk the clairvoyants but a critique on artistic process and production. In this work the hand of the artist never touches the work but yet is claimed by the artist through the intention of creating ‘artwork’. A void is created through the lack of physical and conceptual input from the artist resulting in the finished drawings. The artist is essentially using the clairvoyants as tools to decipher the concept and imagery and translate that into a drawn medium.

The problematics within this practice questions the automation involved. My work often challenges the gallery and artistic process. This project reveals a breakdown of artistic process as related to contemporary artistic production.

Psychic Mediums: Dr. Vito LaNave PhD, Ron Cox

Exhibited at Locust Projects, Miami, Florida, USA, 2018

Generously Supported by the Ontario Arts Council