Zee Kraaszie Aorte Blog of Nicola Morton: hypnosis

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Thursday, 6 August 2015

Dynamic Lifter Vision Shifter

Collaboration with Georgia Graham for Island Salon at Underbelly Festival 2015
#islandsalon #UA15

Dynamic Lifter Vision Shifter (2015) No-Electricity Expanded Projection - hand cranked generator (cordless drill, grinding wheel, plywood, perspex, sand), spinning slide projector (LED, pvc pipe, electric motor, bearings, rubber bands, pulley wheels, plywood), 50ml water on 9" pizza tray

Oh I'm throat singing!!

Short Instagram Video by Sophie Kitson here: https://instagram.com/p/54M0kCPHHf/

Thursday, 16 July 2015

Electric Pulse Music - Lateral Listening NFSA

Solo Electronics.. for Lateral Listening

Curated by Tessa Elieff... here's what she had to say

How do you explain (or-try-to) the works of an artist who works with that which is beyond explanation....

The phenomena of rhythm, hypnosis and electrical synthesis come together for Lateral Listening episode 14, with Nicola Morton.
Tapping into the mechanic pulse of a mysterious machine, Morton sends us into an endless oblivion of sonic pattern - a doorway to another plane?

Perhaps.

Or the sparking of connection to previously dormant grey-matter...

(thanks to the National Film and Sound Archive for hosting)

Wednesday, 8 June 2011

Performance Video, Love Hypnosis Exchange, Taman Budaya, Yogyakarta

Performance Photos, Love Hypnosis Exchange, Taman Budaya, Yogyakarta

I now think of my work as dis-orienting.. get the pun!! hahah
Thank you to Asialink, M.Lugas Syllabus and Rachel Saraswati for the opportunity.

Sunday, 29 May 2011

Love Hypnosis Exchange at Taman Budaya, Yogyakarta - Saturday June 4, 19.30

Pusing Kesurupan agar semua orang suka hati
INSTRUKSI

Tolong dengarkan dan ikuti:
1. "Satu, dua, tiga, empat, lima, enam, tujuh, delapan" - Ikuti gerakan saya dengan berputar ke kiri atau ke kanan sebanyak delapan kali selama hitungan disebutkan.
2. "BEEEEEEEP" - Tempelkn stiker ke badan orang lain selama bunyi didengungkan.
3. Lakukan terus sampai tubuh dipenuhi stiker.

as part of M. Lugas Syllabus - opening "Independence -Dead" show, MC by Rachel Saraswati

Performance Photo from Love Hypnosis Exchange (2010) Brisbane

Friday, 13 May 2011

How I end capitalism in each of my works

In response to Douglas Leonard, (who doubts my force to end capitalism) http://www.realtimearts.net/article/issue101/10168

The end of capitalism is heralded by new developments in exchange and altruism. What Am
I doing for the revolution? I use touch to develop psychometry (as a new weapon of the love force revolution), exchange intellectual property as experience rather than object (to promote the immaterial) and make fun of capitalist ventures (like everyone else in contemporary art, ref: Carmen Ansaldo in Artlines April 2011)

1) The piece in question: "Love Hypnosis Exchange" (2011) Performance

keywords- gift economy, social interactions (For a nicer review of this performance)

I try to create an economy based on exchange of stickers, that I have provided, a trance like activity (regular measured spinning) is used to make the punter more disoriented with current modes of exchange and freer to exchange this new currency of stickers. This new temporal economy I have created is not just based on a

material exchange but also an exchange of:
creative expression as the punters deliberate which colour and where on the body they will place a sticker in each 8 second round
and also a social interaction, as the punter decides who they will place the sticker on

Touch, experience and parody to declare the end of capitalism. Giving a sticker to someone is a gift, an altruistic emotion conveyed by touch. Gift economies challenge current capitalist non-altruistic virtue. Whilst an experiential creation of art on other's bodies in exchange for the creation of art on your own body peddles ephemeral experience rather than object. Moreover the dizzying effects of the Wall St stock exchange are parodied and taken to a new mystical level by adding Sufi spinning to the equation.

2) Previous works: "$1 A Blow" Performance

Keywords: supply pricing experiment

We all have breath. Due to the tenet of supply pricing, I priced breath for as low as $1. But Nobody opted for just a breath on skin. In fact everyone opted for an option with added intellectual property. I told blow jokes, played songs with breath music apps on my iPhone, blew bubbles. People want experience more than the object. I add my voice to the contemporary art revolt, "we no longer care about beauty, we care about ironic political comment."

3) Previous works: "100 Fortune Cookies" (2010) Performance

Keywords: futures exchange, asia tiger economies

Dressed in my power suit and with the help of my tiger (economy), I offered Asian style futures. Willing participants had to hide a coin in the "sands of destiny" which were in fact the raw dry ingredients to make fortune cookies, after placing the coin, they could finger around in the sands and choose their fortune.

Again I am using touch, this time it's very sensual as people are touching these raw materials, which are often speculated in the "futures exchange." Punters are encouraged to use their psychometric powers to pick the fortune that is right for them. They receive the experience of search and find, and find a story for their future and dont actually get a cookie. Plus it's all dripping in irony with the costumes and word puns et al and the tiny joke that all the futures written were the same.

4) Previous works: "2010: The End of Capitalism" (2010) 25min video

Keywords: monumentality, post-modernity

An all out attack on monumentality of capitalism, portraits of artists working to "burst the bubble" of capitalism in Berlin. Only one artist chose psychometry to relate to the bubble in these expressionist experiences as these artists add their portrait to a declaration to end capitalism. Dramatic irony is kindly provided by a morphed soundtrack of Richard Wagner.

5) Remote Viewing Experiment (2009) 50min video

Keywords: psychometry, oneness

An experiment in psychometry. As artists are portrayed video journal style blindly trying to describe the room an object came from. All artists experienced a sense of "oneness" that flies in the face of the individual pursuit of capitalism.

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Tuesday, 28 December 2010

Book Now for Love Hypnosis Exchange

Love Hypnosis Exchange is a group activity facilitated by Nicola Morton. It is all about what happens during a 4 second beep – stickers of different colours and radiuses are exchanged. In between beeps, the audience is involved in a trance activity – they spin left for 8 counts, the beep happens and they put a sticker on someone else, then spin right for 8 counts. This continues for over 10 minutes, to allow 100 stickers of each participant to be exchanged. The count is led by Nicola’s voice (in many different tongues), either in person, or through an instructional video. Performances in person also feature group breathing exercises before the activity to try and synchronize the participants’ pulses.

Synchronicity meets serendipity - this activity leads to a new economy of exchange. Redistributing the sticker currency, counting, breathing, spinning, under the guise of group trance, a micro exchange starts through touch and creative gesture. Love Hypnosis Exchange plays with the psyche of touch and physical representation within groups and is guided by the magic of numbers, repetition and the love emanating from its guru, Nicola.

Review from Labyrinth City

Nicola Morton is an inspired globe trotting-but-locally-based artist with, lately, an interest in time travel, hypnosis, physics, AI, memories, happiness (really hard to pin-point here) and an obsessive streak easily confused with an encounter with the Pink Light… Focusing on her live shows however, they (and like her installations/rituals) are entirely inviting & unpretentious with equal parts of injected confusion & humor, the complex undercurrent of truly inventive ideas set up against a celebratory, near-jubilant backdrop of manic-enthusiasm and the audience being as big of part of the performance as herself through mandatory group participation. From a writing & musical background too, mind, of very selected note a band back in the Euro states, journals and a daedalian arrangement & composition set against a multi-tiered set of rules, a la Cobra, in Life Is A Rubik’s Cube.

Impossible to capture with just a microphone, I’ll have to explain this one: Nicola’s presenting ‘Love Hypnosis Exchange’ – a group activity performance involving several hundred stickers, rules, a/v, breath, hypnosis, your heart. Although this performance was done last week at the Judith Wright Centre tonight’s the authoritative as she skipped a few segments last time: Nicola asks the audience to synchronize our heart beats and breathing so that we are all as one here, we yell ‘crack’ each time our heart beats whilst she does a short, quiet improvised piece with a bowed guitar. The third segment sees her request the audience take a handful of stickers each, about a hundred I think, and to listen to her instructions: She’s going to count to eight whilst you spin around toward people and then a loud beep will sound signifying that you have to swap stickers onto the closest person. There’s going to be a hundred eight-second spins, one taking one second to complete a revolution so yes as it was pointed out eight hundred revolutions. On the ceiling there’s projected visuals and a timer, noise too but I’m focused on the exchanges on the floor. Nicola spins around and through the audience with a keyboard & microphone until the end.

The thing I took from this performance is happiness; I couldn’t stop smiling. The manipulation: Breathing, your heart beat in synchronicity with the people around you there’s a sense of belonging (who doesn’t want that?) and swapping stickers, or anything, coupled with the confusion of the show itself (bonding together trying to figure it out) you’re bound to the room’s collective effervescence forcing you to realize that there’s really nothing between us at all – any barriers once created by our stupid preconceptions, opinions of one another can be quashed by simply exchanging a smile & a silly little sticker. I don’t know what you thought of it or was though.