[spectre] The Telepathic Place: by David Blair … last 2 days, with live choreography by Karine Saporta on Sept 8th

[David Blair]

The Telepathic Place: by David Blair … last 2 days, with live 
choreography by Karine Saporta on Sept 8th

For the disapearance of my installation at the Museum of Contemporary 
Art in Antwerp, the noted choreographer Karine Saporta has agreed to 
live choreograph for the camera, with a single dancing telepathic 
movietalker, on Sunday Sept 8th, and during the disassembly of the 
exhibition by the technical staff on Monday Sept 9th. A longer 
description of Ms. Saporta's work follows below.

The Telepathic Place opened on June 7th, 2013, and closes at the very 
end of the day on Sept 8th. Spread across 5 rooms, the installation 
contains 22 1 hour video channels, the contents of the Vrielynck 
collection of pre-cinema and cinema material, 100 telepathic paintings, 
and many residual thoughts, left by the people in the process of 
forgetting. This installation serves as a waystation on a project that I 
have worked on the last 20 years, and as a sequel to my first feature 
film, Wax or The Discovery of Television Among the Bees… which was 
projected in many places at many times, and for some reason was the 
first film on the internet, back then. Wax was set in New Mexico and 
Iraq. The Lost Tribes is set in Manchuria, and of course in the Spanish 
city of Antwerp, an important segment of the Flemish Empire.

A complete, preliminary documentation of the 5 rooms, and all 22 video 
channels, are available at:
http://telepathic-movie.org  or at
https://vimeo.com/channels/thetelepathicplace

Karine Saporta is the author of more than 30 significant choreographic 
spectacles over an extremely distinguished career. You may know her as 
the choreographer of Peter Greenaway's "Prospero's Books"… but she has 
also served as artistic director for dance at the Avignon Festival, as 
director of the Centre Choreographique National in Caen, and of course 
as the director of her own long term dance company. The company is based 
in a mobile theatre, originally a palais de glace from Flanders, which 
was installed for 3 years in front of the Bibliotheque Francois 
Mitterand in Paris.

Here following is the original announcement I sent out for the opening 
the exhibition, which includes new information, and as you might expect 
for a description of a 4-d movie, some amount of repetition:

"On the façade of the Museum of Contemporary Art in Antwerp, MuHKA, is a 
banner for a 4-dimensional movie: "The Telepathic Place: from the Making 
of The Telepathic Motion Picture of THE LOST TRIBES. This movie takes 
place in 5 rooms, and combines 22 screens, each with an hour of video, 
placed within an active pre- and post-cinema film studio, where are in 
play various useful movie objects such as Magic Lanterns, the famous 
Lumiere Cinematographe #12, Manchurian Film Projectors imported from 
Germany, and various instruments used by narrators and directors of the 
Telepathic Cinema…. Including a 15 meter static moving panorama, 75 
telepathic paintings, and other amusements associated with the 
production of the silent sound film. Here the audience is told and makes 
the movie at the same time, while wandering in space for 10 minutes or 
two hours… one flexible advantage of a 4 dimensional presentation.

If your geography, time, and interest will permit you, then I would to 
invite you to visit the exhibiton of this film, which is playing all 
summer [June 7 until Sept 8 2013], 6 days a week, indoors, during 
daylight hours.

This exhibition is a project by David Blair, curated by Edwin Carels 
(KASK/HoGent), and made in cooperation with MuHKA, using the Museum's 
Vrielynck collection of historical cinema apparatus, which the fortunate 
Mr. Vrielynck collected during his life as a Notary, and now, after that 
life, is a cultural property located in the city of Antwerp.

If you have any questions or requests, please feel free to contact me 
[David Blair] directly via email: blair at telepathic-movie.com  .