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Exhibition: Susan Hiller, Tate Britain, London, until May 15 2011

Ghosts, aliens and psychokinesis are among the supernatural themes explored throughout the 40-year career of Susan Hiller. These are matters usually ignored by mainstream culture. Now they take pride of place at Tate Britain.

The ghosts manifest themselves during slide projection piece Magic Lantern. This deals with sound recordings which may or may not be from the afterlife, known as Electronic Voice Phenomena. As visitors listen to these unexplained tapes, coloured discs fade in and out on the screen. These leave an after-image – so why, the piece appears to ask, shouldn't the human voice?

Aliens crop up in two works, Balshazzar's Feast and Witness. The former recreates a living room to augment a video piece which explores reports from the 1980s in which people saw aliens on their TV sets after closedown. The second piece, a technical tour de force, has installed a darkened space with a jungle of hanging speakers. These relay a babel of eye witness accounts of UFO sightings.

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