Sponsored event: A Line Describing Nothings
New work by Paul Murnaghan at the Lab Foley St. Dublin. Preview Thursday 8th May 6-8pm, exhibition continues to 31st May.
For 'A line Describing Nothings' members of the public were offered 'free past life regressions', through on-line and printed advertising. These sessions came with one stipulation, that participants sit with artists immediately after the regression an assist them in rendering drawings based on the places and people of their experience. Sixty applications were received, ten volunteers and five artists took part in a continuous process of regression, discussion and visual manifestation over an intensive April weekend.
Each of the ten individuals revealed detailed descriptions of rich and varied past lives whilst under hypnosis. As experiment, this process was an attempt to construct something real out of the ethereal, to give name, form and aesthetic to that which lies easier in the murky realm of the spiritual or psychological. As an analytical practice employing a practical research methodology, It allowed a form of normalization. The resulting fifteen meter drawing uses a visual and textual narrative to convey the experience of the regressed participant, through the immediacy of the artist's drawn responses.