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 up a softcover book. The cover is white, with a grey image of a person striking a pose, crutches hanging from their arms. Above the image, the title is embossed into the cover.

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

Two hands hold open a book. On the right page are stills of people mid-performance, which involve grand, gestural movements with their bodies.