Sat, Nov. 9 – Phsychic Barber – SideStreetProjects

11am – 1pm

Location
Side Street Projects

In a nutshell, it is a performance piece where you get a free quality haircut 🙂

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The project was initiated by the chance encounter Finishing School had in 2012 with a neon sign reading “Psychic Barber”. They recognized immediately that it was important but did not know why. It provoked a pondering of the unknown and later, transformation for them as a collective. They want that same experience of excitement, the unknown, and transformation to be passed on to others.

After the invitation to present the project in Pasadena at Side Street Project They consulted a psychic. That experience flooded them with themes including consciousness, labor, class, beauty, magic, mysticism, religion, realness and representation, spectacle, architecture, history, technology, civic/institutional critique, surveillance/privacy, and exhibitionism/voyeurism.

These concepts will be embodied within their new sculpture as a participatory architectural form constructed on the site of a razed barbershop where Side Street Projects now resides. Finishing School will staff the sculpture with hair stylists and barbers who also possess a psychic gift to perform for willing members of the public. The psychic barbers will give free psychic readings and create a new hairstyle for the participant that reflects the insight gained through the experience.