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Episode Six: A Horse By The Tail In The Night

Two obscure aristocrats are fated to dine together indefinitely over the course of an evening that will not cease. Cursed with abundance, they chew away the hours, their food and drink complemented with the bitter fruits of their recollections; spiced with regret and desire, mellowed with well-worn stories. Any attempt to exhaust the inexhaustible is doomed to fail. But like a finely cured meat there is pleasure to be had in consuming the decay and even more in sharing it with whom you may.

Actualized by Francisco Benavides and Lisi Stoessel with live sound design and music by Glenn Ricci (aka @deliriumdog).

As a set of stories are told and re-told over the course of eight (yes, 8) hours, the audience has a choice: Stay for an hour and experience one course of a larger meal? Stay for a longer stretch as the stories evolve and devolve? Drop in and out over the course of the day? 

All we can say is that those who had committed staying for longer stretches did not regret their experience.

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“What happens next?...” Tattoos left behind by our guest researchers during Episode Four: Waters of Oblivion

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Episode Four: "Waters of Oblivion" Runs November 1-4. Explore layers of existence throughout time with a being at the beginning as we seek to discover how one can forge a new identity. (Actualized by Cori Dioquino.)

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Your host for “Altar Ego” - Episode Three of The Institute of Visionary History, in which you are invited to a unique house party to learn more about your "model citizen" Vietnamese-American neighbor, and explore the boundaries between home and not home. (Actualized by Kim Le.)

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Identify fellow Institute inductees with our omnipresent logo. We find that even if they are not wearing it, fellow members can still tell.

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“Remember: the brighter the light, the darker the shadow.”

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Actualized by Mika Nakano, “Project P.S.” (Episode Two) first ran October 11th-14th, 2018. We are still analyzing the data collected during that time and may need to run this experiment again before drawing any conclusions.

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“How well do you think you know me?” -Harriet, Episode One

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When we recall a memory, we are not simply pulling it from a file in our brain. We create it anew every time. Every memory is shaded by the current state of mind and has as much to do with the present as any time in the past. It is likewise with history.

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Found in archive box VE-605, which contained the materials for our first attempted experiment. 

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“Is this what I’ve always looked like? How do you recognize yourself? ... Well, I don’t recognize me. Too many people telling me who I am to take a second look.” -Harriet

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Both occurrences of Harriet (rarely seen together), for our first experiment, simply titled Episode One.

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Hello Tumblr...

Our humblest apologies for neglecting you so during this time of busy experimentation “IRL” as they say. We will rectify this shortly.

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It is our pleasure to be finally bringing our work the the public.

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Joshua Johnson: The Westwood Children, ca.1807

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Diagrams of the eye from Ibn al-Haytham’s Book of Optics, published around 1000 AD.

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Reproduction of the first found IVH cypher. Still decyphering.