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FRONT GALLERY: KIERON BROADHURST AND JACK WANSBROUGH (WA) - EARTH COINCIDENCE CONTROL OFFICE

Opening - 5:30 PM - Wednesday, 1st February

Artist Talks - 6:00pm

Running - 2nd February - 18th February 2017

The Earth Coincidence Control Office was born into a flooded villa in the Virgin Islands. Here, in 1965, Margaret Howe (an amateur researcher) and Peter (a bottlenose dolphin) had lived together, each half in the water and half out. Here, an ambitious project had taken place, in part funded by NASA, to establish a common language between humans and dolphins. Just over here on the flooded balcony, in a moment of desperation as funding was starting to disappear, Howe and the dolphin were simultaneously administered LSD, so each could open their mind wide enough to let the other in. 

Earth Coincidence Control Office, a collaborative work by Kieron Broadhurst and Jack Wansbrough, tracks the strange history of its namesake, a shadowy organisation which emerges fr Earth coincidence control office front porch.