by admin on July 4, 2013, no comments
Phantasia For Elvira Shatayev (leader of a women’s climbing team, all of whom died in a storm on Lenin Peak, August 1974. Later, Shatayev’s husband found and buried the bodies.) The cold felt cold until our blood grew colder then the wind died down and we slept If in this sleep I speak it’s with […]
by admin on June 21, 2013, no comments
“‘Modern Spiritualism’ had, after all, started in the United States when the Fox sisters discovered in March 1848 that the spirit of a murdered man communicated with them through raps and taps (Wallace [1874] 1896:152-53). The movement spread quickly and reached England in the early 1850s in the shape of two female American mediums and […]
by admin on June 21, 2013, no comments
“The performer sees herself as a medium the spirit passes through.” — Joan Jonas, 1982, “Closing Statement”. Theories and Documents of Contemporary Art. Ed. Kristine Stiles, Ed. Peter Selz. Berkeley and Los Angeles, CA: University of California Press. 894. Print.