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Hypnos - performance
lecture performance, hypnosis, 2018, Inkonst Theatre, Malmö, AŽ Gallery, Zagreb
A lecture performance that told the history of hypnotism, about Milton Erickson and the parallels between
hypnosis and the way we look at art was held on several occasions. The lecture was followed by actual hypnotic
sessions in which participants were hypnotised to see an exhibition or a film they always wanted to see. The topic
depended on the context in which the performance was taking place. This is in the AŽ gallery in Zagreb where the
volunteers were hypnotised to see an exhibition. After each session, the participants described the exhibitions
they saw and the audio of them describing was recorded. The exhibition space was left empty for the duration of
the exhibition with only the audio recordings. The visitors could afterwards see the empty gallery and also imagine
all those exhibitions.
Photographs © Boris Cvjetanović
A version of the introduction talk can be seen here. This is the recording of the lecture at the International Congress of Aesthetics in Belgrade in 2019