Ouija Board art show

Copro Nason Gallery in Santa Monica is hosting a show of ouija boards and ouija-inspired work by more than a dozen Pop Surrealist artists. "Talking Board Show" includes spooky-beautiful pieces by the likes of David Stoupakis, Carrie Ann Baade, and Meats Meier. Seen here at very top, Christopher Owen's "Goober's Ghost Chasing Kit," and, above, Travis Louie's interpretation of the Ouija. The show runs through Halloween and all of the art is also viewable online. Link

David Pescovitz is Boing Boing's co-editor/managing partner. He's also a research director at Institute for the Future. On Instagram, he's @pesco.

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arnold

Why doesn’t this ouija board have the letter “K”??
franko

omg, i love these. i particularly love the one on the last page, and the one with the crow’s skull as the planchette.
reviewstew

And not to beat a dead horse here, but Ken Goldberg’s ouija piece has been “remixed” as a new digital artwork. The show opens tonight at the Berkeely Art Museum:

http://www.bampfa.berkeley.edu/exhibition/ripmixburn
5000!

Also worth mentioning are the monster-themed shows running concurrently in Copro Nason’s primary space (especially Isabel Samaras!):

Isabel Samaras
http://www.copronason.com/samarasweb/index.html

Pooch
http://www.copronason.com/poochweb2/index.html

XNO
http://www.copronason.com/xnoweb/index.html
Anonymous

why do people play it???
Anonymous

When will you have another exhibit for the Ouija Boards, I had went to the one in October of 2007? Now I would love to see them all again.. Please email me with the event schedules.

Thank you
For such a wonderful time then.
Nancy
Madamstarn@aol.com
reviewstew

Excellent! And do you already know Ken Goldberg’s online ouija board, that’s part of the Berkeley Art Museum?

http://ouija.berkeley.edu/
License Farm

Two items of related interest:

* First, there should be a link to the story about the “O RLY?” owl photographer nastygramming Jeffrey Rowland for his Internet Ouija Mouspads; and

* my college friend Sarah Becan produces wonderful minicomics illustrating transcripts of ouija sessions she and her brother have performed, some sweet, some silly (some ghosts have a sense of humor, it seems), and one very, very chilling.
liquis

funny related comic

http://pbfcomics.com/archive/PBF220-Passed_On.jpg
David Pescovitz

@Reviewstew (#4), Yes! Ken is a dear friend of ours. If you search BB for his name, you’ll come up with lots of posts. I had forgotten about his Ouija project!