Curator Igor Španjol presents the OHO Group and their Intercontinental Group Project America-Europe (1970).

“One of the key characteristics of the late-stage OHO work was the introduction of esoteric practices, such as telepathy and meditation, in their conceptual art. When David Nez and Milenko Matanović went to the United States in 1970, to prepare the OHO presentation at the Information show at MOMA in New York, the four members of the group realized a number of ‘intercontinental group projects’ based on an attempt to communicate telepathically between New York and Ljubljana, where Marko Pogačnik and Andraž Šalamun had stayed. They saw the physical distance between them as an opportunity to transcend the personal aspect and work as a collective body, as a conceptual harmonious whole composed of individual members and their differences. They did their projects over a period of 25 days, finding a solution to their separation in space in simultaneity. Marko Pogačnik conceived a project in which all four participants drew a linear shape in a field at the same moment, trying to connect in this way. The result was a combination of signs/shapes selected from a proposed set of shapes. In Matanovič’s project, all group members looked at the sun at the same moment, dropped a match onto a sheet of paper, and marked its position. The diagrams of lines show the collaboration and the potential harmony between the participants, offering an independent pattern of various possibilities. The projects were realized in what they called the ‘median form’ between the group members’ individual activities and their group, and also between the carefully thought-out, deliberate concept of the project and the element of play evident in free movement in space and time. These works were more than just telepathic communication. The systematic rituals and the idea of telepathic connection were used to bind the group together as a way of practicing collective identity. The effectiveness of telepathy did not matter, since the participants formed and strengthened their collectivity already by practicing this ritual. Their gazes met at the same point, which bound the separated group through what its members were seeing.”