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Electronic Voice Phenomena

At the Human Condition exhibition, Metro Hospital 2231 S. Western Ave. Los Angeles

Sundown Phenomena The Basement Morgue

October 29 2016

The EVP team sets up in the former Los Angeles Metro Hospital basement morgue. In this first three hour session at least six questions are asked to the room with no clear results.

Room 804

October 30th 2016

Phenomena are often, but not always, understood as "things that appear" or "experiences" for a sentient being ...
Using the tools of Electronic Voice Phenomenon as a pallet, a team of artists will conduct a series of questions in this specific environment.
Audience participation is encouraged.

4th Floor Psychiatric Ward

Saturday November 19th 2016

Nightfall Experiments in select empty rooms in the abandon 4th floor Psych ward.
All Psi experimental results are purely anachronistic and coincidental.

This process is not an exact science.

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The Miami Circle

Unearthing America's Stonehenge

When Miami developer Michael Bauman was building a new high rise a routine archaeological survey of the site uncovered hundreds of mysterious holes in a layer of Oolitic limestone bedrock and legally construction plans were forced to a halt.The discovery of this possible ancient burial site is believed to have once been occupied by the Tequesta Indians and is now protected by the Miami historical society.
Does the "Miami Circle" hold clues to the lost city of Atlantis, the Bermuda triangle and links to the fabled Mystic Crystal Skulls?
What transpires when a graduate school artist/ fringe researcher speaks with key participants, visits the site and perform experiments, and reveals a series of art works related to "America's Stonehenge"?
A project space could highlight various maps, documentary photography, original art and areas to conduct interviews and surveys.
Mark x Farina will take his unique brand of social practice and science friction on the road to the art mecca emerald city of Miami for an intensive interaction into one its great mysteries during the 2016 Art Basel Miami fair.

Where is this magical place ?!

Mono print informational maps of the Miami Circle are being hidden and distributed in the port cities of Miami and Los Angeles. The site of the ancient circle is at The Miami Circle, also known as The Miami River Circle, Brickell Point, or The Miami Circle at Brickell Point Site, is an archaeological site in Downtown Miami, Florida. It consists of a perfect circle measuring 38 feet (11.5m) of 600 postmolds that contain 24 holes or basins cut into the limestone bedrock, on a coastal spit of land, surrounded by a large number of other 'minor' holes. It is the only known evidence of a prehistoric permanent structure cut into the bedrock in the Eastern United States, and considerably predates other known permanent settlements on the East Coast. It is believed to have been the location of a structure, built by the Tequesta Indians, in what was possibly their capital. Discovered in 1998, the site is believed to be somewhere between 1700 and 2000 years old.

Sundown Ceremony

Every Tuesday evening Catherine Hummingbird Ramirez performs her Native American ceremony for Tequesta indians buried at The Miami Circle. Ramirez blesses attendees of the ceremony with sage smoke and corn in downtown Miami.

I'm a Little Bit Country

An invitation for you to occupy the Otis Graduate studio project space #152 in an immersive debate semi panic room. Your encouraged to take a stand, sit a spell, converse in lively topics, cast a wide net and just think about our future in this temporary think tank. Open 24 hours during the debate days of Oct 8th - 22nd. 10455 Jefferson Blvd, Culver City

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Abraham Lincoln

"The best way to predict the future is to create it"

Creating works within the fields of Pop Art, Light and Space, Experimental and Atmospheric Media. Mark X Farina is a visual artist currently enrolled in the graduate Public Practice program at Otis College of Art & Design in Los Angeles California.

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