Through the confessional for cognitive sins Prophette is offering absolution from modern sins in the form of cognitive bias. Both the website and the installation play with the idea of cognitive bias, to get people to admit to these biases and “absolve” them of their “sins”. The idea is to poke fun at this over-hyped area of discussion which reached an apex with the success of Daniel Kahneman’s Thinking, Fast and Slow.
Inspired by Jorge Luis Borges’ story The Writing of the God, this book presents a collection of randomly generated sentences. Using the original text of Borges’ story as its foundation, each sentence follows a precise structure of fourteen words and forty syllables—reflecting the mysterious “Script of the God” described within the narrative.
The Metaphysical Lottery was a spin off from Prophette and Shaman Metaphysical Bookmakers which featured in a number of summer festivals and was a feature of the How the Light Gets In festival – the Hay Literature festival’s Fringe music and philosophy off-shoot. The stand used a modified UK National Lottery stand and sinage, replacing … Metaphysical Lottery
The Random Bible is a bible that was created to contain 787,137 random words. The same number as the King James Bible. The words are drawn from a list of over 100,000 words. Most people have a vocabulary of less than 20,000 words. So enjoy these words and find inspiration from reading aloud in a bombastic voice.
In 2012 Bob Prophette and Penny Shaman created the Book of Metaphysical Bets. Bets wagered by people who attended the Port Eliot Festival that year.
Each bet represents something ‘unprovable but true’ in the eyes of the punter. These bet’s will be honoured in the event that they are proved true. Until then, civility is guaranteed…
