How do we use radio to link two worlds: one of the living and one of the dead. I'm fascinated with the imagery generated by static noise.
Can a radio in a cemetery conjure spirits?
I focused my work on different ways to capture E. V. P [Electric Voice Phenomena: transmissions which sound like human speech, and are interpreted as a communication with dead people] .
I was also interested in the way we might change our posture in a cemetery by using small ground antennas which force you to sit near the ground instead of staying upright in front of the gravestone.
By making these products, I was faced with an ethical responsibility as these objects play with the hopes of contacting the dead. I created a real tool with a paranormal function.
Will these tools be used as therapy? I'm afraid that these tools may possess users in doing things they are told to do by the dead.
I think of this project as an oscillation between fake and real. Like a clairvoyant: it's what you read into it.
Ground Cane Antenna from nelly ben hayoun on Vimeo.
dowsing with E.V.P from nelly on Vimeo.
E.V.P flowers detectors from nelly ben hayoun on Vimeo.
E.V.P dowsing from nelly ben hayoun on Vimeo.