Allison and Holly are united by their
common interests in natural and practical magical, oblique strategies, and what
might exist beyond the threshold of sensation. Together they have begun
exploring these shared fascinations through video, photography, actions,
performance, and installation. In their time at D’CLINIC studios in Lendava,
Slovenia, they have accumulated an odd collection of artefacts, such as brooms,
bells, vigil lights, “healing” waters, and moonbeams. No hierarchical
distinctions are made between objects from the natural world, and those which
have been manufactured. These items speak to a desire to affect and delight the
world around us as a way of asserting control within our inexplicable
existence.
A consideration of the idea and experience
of weirdness – that being related to the uncanny – highlights the otherness
that can be witnessed when something exists outside of its expected
function. The artists state: “When we
approach this inquiry with boundless curiosity, instances reveal themselves to
us constantly, as though we have become magnetic to these phenomena.”
Halter and Streekstra have created an
artists’ book and exhibition that serve as a compendium of their time in Lendava.
A CO-EFFICIENT OF WEIRDNESS is a series of investigations, in the form of
charged actions and spaces, based in the belief that one can influence the
extramundane.