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There's a quirky outdoor art project going on in London and New York called the Telectroscopes. It's the brainchild of visual artist Paul St George, who is fascinated by the blurring lines of illusion and reality, and outdoor events production company Artichoke, who have a penchant for unusual spectacles such as 'The Sultan's Elephant' project that surprised Londoners a few years ago.
The Telectroscopes sit in New York and London and allow people to look at whatever is happening at the other side. There is no sound, but people have been writing messages to each other on whiteboards and there have even been marriage proposals conducted silently from one end to the other.
The story goes that Paul St George's great grandfather in the late 1800s had a vision for a device that would enable 'the suppression of absence', and set about digging a tunnel from London to New York so that a large device could be built at either end that would let people see each other across the distance. After several setbacks and a few tragedies where people working on the tunnel lost their lives, the project was abandoned, St George's great grandfather was devastated and gradually went insane. Paul discovered the old plans after his family had denied their existence for generations and set about completing the project in the modern age.
The story has been widely reported across much of the world media at first as being true, although it is difficult to imagine how this could be the case given the engineering involved, and also given that the initial press release for the launch was given on April 1st. Nevertheless, a lot of thought and effort has clearly gone into the execution of the project, and the telectroscopes really do exist and attract large crowds, so chalk up a victory for modern art.
Visit the official site here.
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