Lily Benson and Aliza Shvarts: How to Be Psychic

November 12th, 2020 at 8:00 PM

Do you wish you saw the pandemic coming? Do you wish you knew which stocks to buy? Do you wish you knew when to finally break up with the person you’ve been quarantining with? Have you always wanted to be an oracle? It’s time to unlock the power within. You already have psychic powers; we’re here to help you unlock them.

Please join artists Lily Benson and Aliza Shvarts for the one-hour virtual workshop How to Be Psychic. Benson and Shvarts will lead you through a series of exercises on premonition, prediction, and visual analysis in order to enhance your innate intuitive abilities.

This workshop is presented on the occasion of 2019-2020 A.I.R. Fellow Aliza Shvarts’s solo exhibition Hotline, which centers on an artwork that takes the form of a telephone number: (866) 696-0940. Spiritualism and the telephone co-emerged in the nineteenth century. Both entail a spooky action at a distance and both rely on a sense of intimacy extended across time and space. One allows you to reach across the obstacle of distance; the other allows you to reach beyond the veil of death.

To Register:

Please register for the virtual workshop via Eventbrite here.

Participation is limited to 20 people. The workshop will take place on Zoom. There is a $5 registration fee, which will act as a donation to A.I.R. Gallery.

Lily Benson is a filmmaker, visual artist, and hypnotist. Her work examines feminist history and reconstructs it into new narrative forms. She is a visual editor for The New York Times and is the co-founder of Cinema COBRA, a curatorial platform for expanded cinema. Her work has appeared at places like CPH:DOX, Rotterdam International Film Festival, The Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Anthology Film Archives, The Hand Gallery, The Brooklyn Museum, Freight and Volume, and Nicolai Wallner Gallery. She received a BFA from The Cooper Union in New York City and an MFA from Malmö Art Academy in Sweden. Lily has exceptional clairvoyant and telepathic abilities.

Aliza Shvarts is an artist and theorist who takes a queer and feminist approach to reproductive labor and language. Her current work focuses on testimony and the circulation of speech in the digital age. Shvarts received her BA from Yale University and her PhD in Performance Studies from New York University. Her artwork been shown at venues including the Tate Modern in London; Centre for Contemporary Art FUTURA in Prague; the Athens Biennale; Universidad de los Andes in Bogota; SculptureCenter, Art in General, and Participant Inc in New York; LACE in Los Angeles; the Slought Foundation in Philadelphia; and Artspace in New Haven, CT. Her writing has been published in Whitechapel Documents in Contemporary Art: Practice, The Feminist and Queer Information Studies Reader, TDR/The Drama Review, Women & Performance, and The Brooklyn Rail.

Disclaimer:

Psychic readings are subject to interpretation and should not be taken as absolute. A reading is never 100% accurate. All readings given are for entertainment purposes only, and no guarantee can be given as to the accuracy of a reading. Readings do not replace Professional Medical/Legal/Business opinion and advice. Readings will not force you to follow a particular course of action, or attempt to exert any form of control over your free-will and common sense.

The contents of your readings and experience in this workshop are not legally binding. Any decisions made, or actions taken by you as a result of your reading are your sole responsibility and have not been forced upon you. We assume no legal liability for any damages, losses, or other consequences of any client decisions, subsequent to, or based on readings provided. Please use your own common sense and judgment at all times. It is only with the complete understanding and acceptance of the above that your reading will take place.

We do not offer readings to anyone under 18 years of age. By accepting this reading you confirm that you are 18 years of age or older.