Mystery Call

Mystery Call, an embodied 1-to-1 conversation, connecting community near and far, digitally and in person

Mystery Call is a 1-to-1 conversation that is digitally delivered and connects us in community near and far. It is influenced by awareness of bodily diversities and disability cultures. It is an experience to be heard and embodied instead of being visually seen.

The MindsEye Collective invites you to discover through acts of listening and movement: an experience of your own body, the history of our bodies and a relationship to the collective queer body.

You can join the Mystery Call virtually wherever you are or in person with the MindsEye Collective. At an appointed time, you and your mystery call partner will engage in a supported pre-arranged online call with cameras off. Together you will be guided via conversational prompts to consider and safely share aspects of your present experience and your relationship with the spaces / places you are in. As a pair, you will select fragments of your conversation to share with the Mindseye Collective that will be woven into dance. The dances will be embodied in Naarm throughout the Midsumma Festival for anyone to witness. To end your call, you will be offered a dance that has been composed and translated from a previous pair's Mystery Call to read aloud to one another and embody if you wish.

Mystery Call is a creation of the MindsEye collective; a Gadigal based collaboration between Alex Craig, Gabriela Green Olea and Imogen Yang. Formed in 2020, this collective is committed to creating experimental movement-based works that are inclusive of all people and engage with audience members as active participants, across time and space, geographical, virtual, systemic & social borders. 

During the 2020 Sydney lockdown, The MindsEye Collective began exploring accessible ways to maintain collaborative movement practices in isolation. It started as weekly remote exchanges of movement based scores, using different forms of notating and reading aloud to experience dance inclusively, within the collective body and without visual sight. They then went on to participate in residencies with ReadyMade Works, 2020 and Ausdance DAIR, 2021, investigating ways that others may receive and interact with the project including through Mystery Call.

Mystery Call is continually being developed by the the MindsEye collective, and aspects of this ever-evolving project have been shared more widely with audiences at Live Dreams, Moshi Moshi (Performance Space / Liveworks Festival 2021), and through A Season Of Care residency at UTP in 2023.

Mystery Call is a process driven work with no fixed outcome. It has and will continue to creatively unfold throughout time, ever evolving and being reshaped through the contributions of audience/ participants and the connections forged between themselves and the MindsEye collective artists in experiencing the work.

The MindsEye Collective will endeavour to make Mystery Call as accessible as possible for all people wishing to engage in it. Please let us know any specific access requirements you have when booking. The project has been created with the access needs of people who are Blind or have low vision in mind.