Ted Owens: Freakish Weather
Installation, Meneer de Wit, 2007-8. Paint, styrofoam, aluminumtape, archive materials.
'The miracle has developed
Right in front of your non-seeing Eyes'
Ted Owens was a man on whom the world as we commonly perceive it to be had no particular hold. Claiming to be able to alter the weather via psychokinetic forces and surrounded by strange electric phenomena, he travelled the globe in search of the monster of Loch Ness and the power of the pyramids. While doing so, he sent hundreds of newspaper clippings, travel reports, cassettes and letters of explanation to a selection of journalists, scientists and politicians. It is this archive, now held by Teds biographer Jeffrey Mishlove, which served as a basis for the installation Freakish Weather. A show about magical thinking, ambiguity, and truly leaving the norm behind.
kink eraser (installation view)
fun and games (installation view)
the only reality (installation view)
let's be friends (installation view)
audio archive (installation view)
teasercard - front
tearer card - back