F-L-A-M-M-A-R-I-O-N
Program, P.2208
- Identifier
- P.2208
- Category
- Visual Arts
- Date
- September 15 – October 15, 2012
- Description
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Belfast artist Susan MacWilliam’s video installation F-L-A-M-M-A-R-I-O-N. In 1931 a ‘teleplasm’ spelling out the name Flammarion appeared on the wall of a cabinet at a séance in Winnipeg. Camille Flammarion, 1842–1925, was a French astronomer and psychical researcher and his name appeared at Thomas Glendenning Hamilton’s sitting of June 10th, 1931. F-L-A-M-M-A-R-I-O-N features a reconstruction of T. G. Hamilton’s séance cabinet, the Belfast poet Ciaran Carson, Atlanta-based Danish-American poltergeist investigator Dr. William G. Roll and Arla Marshall, Canadian granddaughter of Hamilton’s Scottish sitter Susan Marshall. Recorded in three cities across the globe Carson, Roll and Marshall come together in F-L-A-M-M-A-R-I-O-N and respond to the image of the teleplasm.
F-L-A-M-M-A-R-I-O-N was developed from MacWilliam’s 2008 residency at the University of Manitoba Rare Books and Special Collections, Winnipeg where she worked with the Hamilton Family fonds. F-L-A-M-M-A-R-I-O-N was commissioned for Susan MacWilliam’s solo exhibition representing Northern Ireland at the 2009 Venice Biennale.