High above the ground and spanning the width of the stage, Grace Needlman and Will Bishop, with assistance from Margaret Hu and Brandon Hughton, conducted a series of experiments: an audience member steps into the uppermost left opera box and paints on a piece of paper, folding it to create a Rorschach blot, and gives it to Will, silent in a lab coat, who then sends the blot via pulley system across the theater to the uppermost right opera box where another scientist captures the evidence and feeds it into the giant, glowing, gently swaying Brain Oracle (puppetteered by Grace) who returns the blot, a poetic fortune inscribed on the blank side of the page, to the subject waiting at the other end of the pulley at Brain Frame 19 on August 9th, 2014.
Photos thanks to Gillian Fry and John Fecile.