From 1950-1975 Dooling’s great-grandmother, Amy Loomis, typed over 2000 pages documenting her channeled communications with the supernatural world. Among these messages included detailed plans for a peace envoy travelling on spaceships from Venus to Earth to stop the U.S. government from further development of the atomic bomb. Due to unpredictably heavy atmospheric conditions surrounding the Earth, the peace envoy was never able to land despite numerous attempts.
“Mediums and Messages” is transfixed on the intersection between mid 20th century mediumship and a re-imagining of technologies through disassembled typing machines – a realm where words and conversations are literally stuck in their transmission through the spiritual ether, a material substance believed to exist between the earth and astral plane.
In her radio series, Dooling’s work fossilizes obsolete transistor radios in icy blocks of resin. Produced by the billions in the 1960s and 70s, subjected to the process of incessant technological renewal, these resin encased transistor radios articulate a cycling of desire, rejection, waste and retrieval of being lost in the Anthropocene.
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From 1950-1975 Dooling’s great-grandmother, Amy Loomis, typed over 2000 pages documenting her channeled communications with the supernatural world. Among these messages included detailed plans for a peace envoy travelling on spaceships from Venus to Earth to stop the U.S. government from further development of the atomic bomb. Due to unpredictably heavy atmospheric conditions surrounding the Earth, the peace envoy was never able to land despite numerous attempts.
“Mediums and Messages” is transfixed on the intersection between mid 20th century mediumship and a re-imagining of technologies through disassembled typing machines – a realm where words and conversations are literally stuck in their transmission through the spiritual ether, a material substance believed to exist between the earth and astral plane.
In her radio series, Dooling’s work fossilizes obsolete transistor radios in icy blocks of resin. Produced by the billions in the 1960s and 70s, subjected to the process of incessant technological renewal, these resin encased transistor radios articulate a cycling of desire, rejection, waste and retrieval of being lost in the Anthropocene.