Centre Charles Peguy, London

In several works, I have used hypnosis and hypno-regression as an ‘accessing’ tool. In 1979 with the artist Peter Davey (see Anxtions) we experimented with hypnotic techniques for the Hayward Annual 1979. I also went to a hypnotherapist to recall a UFO experience. This recording was used in a work at the ICA in 1997, An Angel Called Gravity, in which the entire audience was led from the theatre to St James’s Park to re-create the UFO. In 1982 I went to a hypno-regressionist with Paul Burwell and recorded the session on a cassette player. A labyrinthine story emerged beginning with myself as a girl during WW1 wearing a gas mark and feeling suffocated. I played the recording of the session during a performance ‘It was meant to Be’ at Centre Charles Peguy, whilst I covered my head with latex making it very hard to breath and projected images of my crying face onto the rubber. My suffocated strangled sounds and breath interspersed with the dream-like quality of my voice. Paul ‘s regression involved being shot down in WW1 as a pilot and he suspended his drum–kit as a flying machine whilst I voiced his terrifying story