Aby W Blake, editor

Documents of Psychic Amateurs

Documents of Psychic Amateurs is the first volume in a quarterly publication dedicated to the dissemination of research by both faculty and students at the Institute for the Science of Identity. Volume 1 no.1, 2008, is 58 pages, 8.5” x 11”, perfect bound with 24 full colour pages and 34 black and white pages printed on various coloured papers. The first issue represents the work of 20 artists: Aby W. Blake, Mark Connery, Jo Cook, Mily Goodden, Claudine Hubert, Sally Ireland, Doug Jarvis, Malena Kirlianova, Chris Lloyd, Ross Angus Macaulay, Billy Mavreas, Michael McCormack, Tammy McGrath, Wesley Mulvin, Florentine Perro, Sally Rees, Liz Solo, Julie Voyce, Matt Warren and Frances Zorn. Published on the ocassion of the exhibition, International Psychic Amateurs Work/Study (iPAWS) at Lucky’s Gallery in Vancouver, Canada. Printed in a limited edition of 50 numbered copies. Perro Verlag, Vancouver.

Visitors to the opening of the iPAWS exhibition.

Ross Angus Macaulay reading the cards for Gedidiah McCaughey and Mary Schendlinger at the iPAWS exhibition opening.

Fortune Telling Cards and notes by R. Macaulay. Drawing (Diagram) by Julie Voyce, Plaster Mold (Hefignes) by Wesley Mulvin.

Looking for Voices, print by Matt Warren with video, neila ni, by Liz Solo. Photograph, Stille by Matt Warren with Runes by Claudine Hubert on the red shelf.

Drawings and psychically charged objects by Doug Jarvis. Data Distribution Probe by Michael McCormack and the SAGSRI artists and advisors.

Emet (Truth) by Tammy McGrath. Drawings (Transformations) by Sally Rees.

Psychic Amateurs psychically partying after the exhibition. Photos by Terry Plummer.

Interior of the Research Lab in the Institute with students at their work stations.