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Open a larger version of the following image in a popup: Shannon Taggart, Automatic writing experiment using a planchette, Arthur Findlay College, UK, 2012

Shannon Taggart American, b. 1975

Automatic writing experiment using a planchette, Arthur Findlay College, UK, 2012
Series: Séance
Archival pigment print
30.5 x 45.7 cm
12 x 18 in
Edition of 5 plus 2 artist's proofs
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In a practice room at Arthur Findlay College — the Spiritualist institution housed at Stansted Hall, Essex, often described as the movement's unofficial university — hands rest lightly on a...
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In a practice room at Arthur Findlay College — the Spiritualist institution housed at Stansted Hall, Essex, often described as the movement's unofficial university — hands rest lightly on a planchette fitted with a pencil. The instrument predates the Ouija board: it emerged in the 1850s as a writing device, decades before letters were ever printed beneath it. Automatic writing is among Spiritualism's oldest experimental techniques: the sitter surrenders conscious control, and the resulting marks are read as messages passed through, rather than authored by, the body. Taggart's photograph holds the moment of suspension itself — before meaning arrives, when the script is still only motion. The image asks the question that runs through the whole of Séance: where does intention end, and what moves in its place?
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