Fert & Vostiklap – Telepath Syndicate (that’s my kettle talking to me)
Tuesday, 15 September⋅9:30 – 10:00pm
At 9.30pm tonight – it’s Fert & Vostiklap with ‘Telepath Syndicate (that’s my kettle talking to me).’
Fert & Vostiklap are the artist duo Alisa Vostiklap Savtchenko and Margarita Fert originally from Kyiv and St. Petersburg respectively – two friends who have known each other since the age of 11.
The common thread running through this collaboration is the notion of a sensory perception that reaches beyond the human. Margarita Fert, who identifies as a neurodiverse person, calls this receptivity to non-human voices telepathy, while Alisa Vostiklap Savtchenko approaches it as a spectrum of consciousness moving through the material world. It was conversations between them on this subject that formed the basis of the project, proposing the idea that neurodiverse people are a few steps ahead of the neurotypical majority when it comes to empathic engagement with other beings and inanimate objects in their everyday lives. This practice of attention proposes a deviation from the pre-eminence of the human subject that is leading humanity towards ecological catastrophe, offering a radical alternative to the modus operandi of our society. The sound piece follows the mental pathways that arise from an exchange with a geranium plant, a Starbucks cup or a gambling machine.
