A HYPER-MAGNIFIED video of an electrified cancer cell spindle will take East Launceston Primary School pupils to the other side of the world.
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It's not as confusing as it sounds.
The pupils yesterday interpreted the image with the help of one of America's leading time-based performance artists.
Vanderbilt University assistant professor Amelia Winger-Bearskin will use the audio files captured from the children's voices to start her own international performance-based experiment.
``I wanted to create a unique performance project that would be performed at the art gallery here at the Inveresk campus of the University of Tasmania,'' Professor Winger-Bearskin said.
``I knew that I wanted to use the videos my friend had taken at his research lab of these spindles because they just seemed really amazing.''
The children recorded instructions based on how to replicate the image of the multi-polar spindle during cellular duplication - that will then be heard by participants through mp3 players at an exhibition on Friday, July 27.
``It will still be these children's voices but then it will happen again in the US and possibly it will happen again in Poland,'' Ms Winger-Bearskin said.
``The children will be thinking of very clear instructions . . . they might say `take five steps, turn around, return to the same position' but anyone can interpret that in many different ways.''
AT A GLANCE
WHAT: Crowd Spindle exhibition.
WHERE: University of Tasmania's school of visual performing arts new gallery.
WHEN: 5pm to 7.30pm, Friday, July 27.
