ESP USA, is an online show (via Flatland: Chris Reeves & Curtis Miller) for the stay-at-home-or-who-knows-what times. From April – June of 2020, I put out an open call for anyone to join us for ESP (extrasensory perception) tests via the COVID-19 networking staple, Zoom. In each session I attempted to send an artwork via telepathy to each participant. The ESP tests, transcriptions, and commentaries were placed online (built by Curtis) with the artists response to their experience (http://espusa.fyi).Part art show, social and scientific report, practical joke, and mini-treatise on our contemporary modes of communication, the purpose was to challenge the increasing feeling of normalcy via Zoom communication, by using it for something it is not designed to do (i.e. surrogate real connections with people).
