Eliza Swann is an interdisciplinary artist concerned with investigations that utilize scientific and mystical methods of inquiry, as being complementary rather than contradictory, with an emphasis on the correlation between the human form and theories of space and time. Please visit www.elizaswann.com for more information. Kendra Urdang is a doula, farmer, and poet interested in the deconstruction of self-understanding of the body, time, language, and their limits. Sometimes she writes to angels to help discern and confront where these themes fail and where they succeed. She lives in Brooklyn. She says hi.
THE ORACULUM is a mixed media installation created at the navel of the world featuring Kendra Urdang's ecstatic speech and Eliza Swann's video projections. The room has been refashioned to invite divine utterances in the style of the Oracle at Delphi. This modern Oracle hopes to re-establish a sense of intimacy between people and the Gods that has been forgotten in our digital age. As a person who has also lost her way, her prophecy is as much a personal confession as it is a message from above. The Oraculum penetrates the mysteries of miscommunication and proposes that noise and nonsense can be the catalyst for flashes of great insight. The Oracle speaks at 9pm.
