"“Automatisme ambulatoire,” or ambulatory automatism, is an expression that conjures notions of the compulsive traveler, while simultaneously implying irresistible urges and movements, such as grimaces, tics, and gestures, often linked to physical pathologies. The artists in this exhibition were invited to consider such gestures as a performative style, one that might work to subvert, undo, transform and reimagine the body and language, both real and imagined. Featuring six new works commissioned specifically for this project, the exhibition aimed to question, challenge, and complicate the ethical and moral boundaries of “imitation” and how the so-called “pathologized” body might be considered in new, contemporary social and cultural contexts."-- Provided by publisher.
Notes
Catalogue of an exhibition held at the Owens Art Gallery from September 6 to November 6, 2019.
Disabled Bodies as “Instigators for Change”: Imagining Another World / Jane Dryden
Works. Diane Borsato, Gems and Minerals
Pauline Boudry/Renate Lorenz, The Right to Have Rights
Claire Cunningham, tributary
Brendan Fernandes, The Ritepg
Every Ocean Hughes, Help/What/The New York Times
My Barbarian, Hystera Theater.
Other title(s)
Hysteria, imitation, performance
ISBN
9780888282644 ((softcover))
0888282648
OCLC
1240819855
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