Automatisme Ambulatoire Matinée

An afternoon of art and dance

About Automatisme Ambulatoire
A close-up of a child’s hands using a tactile drawing tool to emboss lines of a drawing into a sheet of white paper.

Coinciding with Sackville’s Fall Fair, this afternoon event invites visitors to explore the exhibition Automatisme Ambulatoire: Hysteria, Imitation, Performance and spend time drawing by touch in the galleries. With braille paper and special drawing tools, make embossed drawings that you can feel. Young visitors can borrow new Art Kits featuring playful, in-gallery artmaking activities that respond to artworks on view. Dancers will activate Brendan Fernandes’ installation The Rite.

Curated by Amanda Cachia, Automatisme Ambulatoire: Hysteria, Imitation, Performance includes newly commissioned works by Diane Borsato, Pauline Boudry/Renate Lorenz, Claire Cunningham, Brendan Fernandes, Every Ocean Hughes and My Barbarian.

A child wearing a white cape sits at a table. On the table there are two plaster leg casts and the child uses a marker to sign one of them. Both casts are covered in signatures, and one of them is decorated with plastic jewels.
In the centre of a large gallery, two dancers wearing black bodysuits face each other within a cage-like structure. An audience lines the wall watching the dancers.
In the centre of a large gallery, two dancers wearing black bodysuits face each other within a cage-like structure. An audience lines the wall watching the dancers.
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