David Askevold

It’s No Use Crying

David Askevold

The performer’s upside down frontal head fills the monitor, staring into the camera trying not to blink for the duration of a recording of Ray Charles’ “It’s No Use Crying”.

Very Soon You Will

David Askevold

Carol Williams

The room is dark and a recording of 14 tuning forks is playing in the room. The subject is asked to lie on a cot and relax. An overhead spotlight illuminates the face. She is asked to imagine a soft focus screen behind her eyelids where images will come and go and she is to describe what she sees. She is then told that she "will very soon" experience a violent form of death and I ask her if she is surprised this is happening to her. A consistent set of conditions begin to set in and the dialogue description of the images she is seeing and experiencing takes place. A mild form of hypnosis seems to set in.