McDermott & McGough are
particularly drawn to the mysterious and theatrical nature of the rapidly developing science of photography in their chosen era and the exhibition presents a series of
magical experiments sourced from Les Récréations Scinetifiques and hints at the possible use of photography to communicate across
time to different psychic spaces, as in the eponymous Experience of Amusing Chemistry, 1884 (1996) and Curious Experience of Equilibrium with Three Sticks, 1884 (1990).