Hosting a ghost

Activity: External performance, talk or presentation › Talk for a mainly academic audience (e.g. at an academic conference)

Description

Georges Didi-Huberman writes about how, in the nineteenth century, hysterics and doctors at the Salpêtrière hospital in Paris were linked in a performance of “psychiatric theatricality,” starting with a “Coup de Théâtre,” a sudden loss of consciousness. I have developed a devising method I call “gHosting,” hosting a ghost. I find hysterics—Augustine, Emmy von N., Dora—between the written and traced lines of historical medical material. The hysterics inhabit my body and, in this new location, they find voice to encounter individual members of the audience in a one-to-one durational performance.
Period15 May 2019
Event titleGlasgow Medical Humanities Network Symposium
Event typeOther
LocationGlasgow, United KingdomShow on map
Degree of RecognitionRegional

Keywords

  • medical humanities
  • interdisciplinary
  • psychoanalysis
  • hysteria
  • ghosts
  • Fraud

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