HISTORY
In 1993 we formed a co-operative venture with a floating membership,
aiming to disturb people into personal change or self reflection through
a series of confrontational performances based on a 'new sound and vision'
manifesto. The projects operate through Testcard: a battle into the
unconscious in which any footing is quickly lost to an illusionary and
devious-mind.
The Testcard is the symbolic end to programmed schedules, the fear of
losing structure, the fear of habitual behaviour patterns. We operate
under the premise that there can be very little conscious awareness
of a structure to one's action, but unconsciously one is subject to
a loosely determined destiny: future, present and past existing as one,
accessed intuitively through divinatory methods...
TESTCARD explore the shifting world of the mind . Performance research
range from Ouija board transmissions to brain frequency and mind/ body
experiments seeking answers to hidden truths through intuitive approaches.
We have performed in Russia for the festival of visual and performing
arts in St Petersburg, the CYNET arts festival in Dresden, and Tate
Modern in London for World Book day, and most recently in KIEV for the
KIMAF festival.
The notorious ouija board radio transmission has been published in John
Rackham’s book ‘Brighton Ghosts, Hove Hauntings’.
Using the Electronic Voice Phenomenon technique of Friedrich Jürgenson,
a soundtrack CD of F.W Murnau’s 1922 film Nosferatu, has been
released, with samples recorded from haunted locations in Paris, London
and Brighton. Testcard regularly transmit a monthly broadcast on Radio4A:
see www.radio4a.org.uk.
see quicktime movie of testcard founder adrian
shephard speaking on 'graveyards,ouija and the vatican..' film by
amoeba...(2.1Mb)
