The Haunt 2
Ted Hiebert, Doug Jarvis and Jackson 2bears.
in the exhibition Ghost Hole III, White House Studio Project
Toronto (ON) Canada
28-30 October 2011.
The Haunt: Noxious Sector Haunted Plaque
The Haunt 2
a Noxious Sector project
The Haunt 2 is a project in which we propose a haunting, a psychic sit-in on public (or private) property in which we mentally occupy different spaces -- preferably stair wells, alley ways or dark corners. While inhabiting these spaces, we endeavor to psychically taunt anyone who wanders through, tripping and poking and laughing in as malicious ways as possible. The idea is to explore both the limits of psychic possibility -- given shape through our remote occupation of the space -- and the thresholds of public comfort and discomfort with the knowledge that a space is being occupied with malicious intent. The project grows out of a recent series of explorations in which we took turns haunting one another. The project provided preliminary strategies for this sort of virtual engagement, and gave us some first hand experience with what strategies for haunting are most effective. Using a variety of techniques -- from voodoo to witchcraft to astral projection to telematic embraces -- we psychically taunted one another, attempting to willfully impact on the environment and psyche of our fellow collective members.