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Susan MacWilliam - Works | |
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Eileen Forthcoming - Premiering at Gimpel Fils, London 23rd May - 28th June 2008 | |
| 2008, DVD Installation | ||
| Featuring projected images of the Parapsychology Foundation Library, New York, a strobing 'psychic edit' of archival Eileen Garrett footage and a synchronised 3 screen work. Hailed as the world's greatest medium, Eileen Garrett (1893-1970) founded The Parapsychology Foundation in 1951. In 'Eileen' Garrett is conjured up through image and anecdote. | ||
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13 Roland Gardens | |
| 2007, DVD, Colour, Stereo, 22mins, 30secs. | ||
| Eileen Coly daughter of the famous Irish medium Eileen J Garrett describes Garrett's 'R101 Airship Seance' of 1930 and 13 Roland Gardens, site of Harry Price's Laboratory of Psychical Research. | ||
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Dermo Optics | |
| 2006, Installation with projection | ||
| Dermo Optics presents the experimental research of Madame Duplessis. | ||
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Dermo Optical Cake | |
| 2006, DVD, Colour, Stereo, 2mins 24secs. | ||
| A cake commissioned from Zvezda, a cake shop in Celje, Slovenia is cut dermo optically. | ||
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Explaining Magic to Mercer | |
| 2005, Installation with DVD and framed images | ||
The artist discusses with her 5 year old nephew Mercer the bizarre and extraordinary phenomena attributed to the historical figures that have been the subject of her work. |
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Feelers | |
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| 2005, Artists Pages - Printed Project | ||
| Printed Project is the journal published by Visual Artists Ireland. | ||
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Headbox | |
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| 2004, Installation of Objects and 3 Video Works | ||
| Based on the case of Rosa Kuleshova, a young woman whose remarkable ability to read with her fingertips made her the subject of intense scientific observation in Russia in the 1960s. |
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Kuda Bux | |
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| 2003, Installation with Video Work DVD, B+W, Colour, Stereo, 10mins 40secs. | ||
| The New York mystic Kuda Bux was made famous during the 1930s and 40s by his dramatic demonstrations of eyeless sight. |
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After Image | |
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| 2002, B+W and Colour, Stereo, 4 mins 30 secs. | ||
| Delving into the bizarre and the extraordinary. | ||
| Exploring the myth that the last image seen before death is retained on the retina of the eye. |
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On The Eye | |
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| 2002, Installation of 3 Projected Video Works. | ||
| Projected images of a lightning storm, ceiling fans and mountain mist flicker, strobe and stutter. | ||
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Stereoscopes | |
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| 1999-2001 Illuminated Slides. | ||
| The stereoscopes present 3D images observed through special viewing glasses. | ||
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The Persistence of Vision | |
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| 2000, B+W, Colour and Sound, 7mins 40secs. | ||
| Based on the extraordinary case of Brooklyn based Mollie Fancher who exhibited multiple personalities and clairvoyance. | ||
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45 rpm | |
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| 2000, B+W, Silent, 4mins 34secs. | ||
| The work presents images of a spinning zoetrope. | ||
| Inside the zoetrope are images of the artist repeatedly raising her hand to her forehead. |
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Experiment M | |
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| 1999, Installation with 2 Videos, Both B+W, Silent, 5mins 43secs. | ||
| Based on the case of the Belfast born levitation medium Kathleen Goligher and her researcher Dr.William Jackson Crawford. | ||
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Faint | |
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| 1999, Colour with Sound, 3mins 40secs. | ||
| Presents images of a fainting girl set against the sound of bird song. | ||
| The work relates to mesmerism and trance, spiritualism and mediumship. |
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The Last Person | |
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| 1998, B+W Silent, 10mins 30secs. | ||
| Based on the case of Helen Duncan (1898-1956). Duncan, a medium from Portsmouth was the last person to be tried under the British Witchcraft Act of 1735. | ||