Automatisme Ambulatoire

Year: 2021
96 pages
17 x 24.8 cm
ISBN: 978-0-88828-264-4
$30.00 hardcover

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Two hands hold a hardcover book with a matte white dust jacket. Below embossed text that reads :Automatisme Ambulatoire" is a photograph printed in light grey of Claire Cunningham striking a pose with her arm crutches. She is wearing a white jump suit with a wide belt and high collar.

Published in conjunction with the exhibition Automatisme Ambulatoire: Hysteria, Imitation, Performance, curated by Amanda Cachia, and presented at the Owens Art Gallery from 6 September to 6 November 2019.

The artists in this project consider ideas of “automatisme ambulatoire,” “hysteria” and “epilepsy” as a performance style, and explore how these gestures can work to subvert, undo, transform and reimagine the body and language, both real and imagined.

This publication features a foreword by Emily Falvey, as well as essays by exhibition curator Amanda Cachia and Jane Dryden, Department of Philosophy, Mount Allison University.

Publication Coordination: Emily Falvey
Editing and Copyediting: Ellen Chang-Richardson
Design: Mark Timmings
Image preparation: Trevor Mills

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Two hands hold open a book. On the left hand side is a white page with black text. On the right are three images; Claire Cunningham strikes a pose with her crutches, Elvis Presley, wearing shiny black shoes, balances on the tips of his toes, Jane Dryden lunges forward while singing into a golden microphone that she holds in her right hand.
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