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Open a larger version of the following image in a popup: Shannon Taggart, Gordon Higginson’s medium’s cabinet, Arthur Findlay College, England, 2023

Shannon Taggart American, b. 1975

Gordon Higginson’s medium’s cabinet, Arthur Findlay College, England, 2023
Series: Séance
Archival pigment print
45.7 x 30.5 cm
18 x 12 in
Edition of 7
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FRANÇAIS CI-DESSOUS After discovering mediums' cabinets in historical séance photographs, I became fascinated and wanted to see one in person. The first I encountered had belonged to Gordon Higginson, the...
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FRANÇAIS CI-DESSOUS

After discovering mediums' cabinets in historical séance photographs, I became fascinated and wanted to see one in person. The first I encountered had belonged to Gordon Higginson, the respected former principal of Arthur Findlay College, who kept the tradition of the public ectoplasmic séance alive long after it had fallen out of fashion.


In 1974, Psychic News documented a séance using this cabinet, complete with infrared photographs. An entranced Gordon told the crowd: "Death was only a move from one scene to another." He then delivered 90 minutes of uninterrupted mediumship — clairvoyant messages, flowing ectoplasm, and the full materialization of a 24-year-old woman named Gill, who had died in an Austrian avalanche. Gill appeared to greet her mother, who was present, and who confirmed her daughter's identity.


FRANÇAIS

Après avoir découvert des cabinets de médiums dans des photographies historiques de séances, je fus fascinée et voulus en voir un en personne. Le premier que je rencontrai avait appartenu à Gordon Higginson, l'ancien directeur respecté du Arthur Findlay College, qui avait maintenu vivante la tradition de la séance ectoplasique publique longtemps après qu'elle fut tombée en désuétude.


En 1974, Psychic News documenta une séance utilisant ce cabinet, accompagnée de photographies infrarouges. Un Gordon en transe dit à l'assemblée : « La mort n'était qu'un passage d'une scène à une autre. » Il délivra ensuite 90 minutes de médiumnité ininterrompue — messages clairvoyants, ectoplasme en abondance, et la matérialisation complète d'une jeune femme de 24 ans nommée Gill, morte dans une avalanche en Autriche. Gill apparut pour saluer sa mère, présente dans la salle, qui confirma l'identité de sa fille.

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