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SHANNON TAGGART
SÉANCE
IN PROGRESS
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EVENTS
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VIDEO
EXHIBITIONS
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SYMPOSIUM @ LILY DALE
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WEIRD STUDIES
Visual companion for
Weird Studies
Episode 113
Featured
Cover of SÉANCE
A spirit beside a photograph of an absent client. William Mumler, c.1870.
From Tony Oursler's essay in SÉANCE
Mediums prepare to deliver messages. Lily Dale Auditorium, 2001.
The medium Stanisława P: emission and resorption of an ectoplasmic substance through the mouth (under netting). Albert von Schrenck-Notzing, 1913.
Medium Mary Marshall, with teleplasmic mass featuring the materialization of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Dr Thomas Glendenning Hamilton, 1932.
Hand imitation (preliminary to ‘Lucy’ form). Dr Thomas Glendenning Hamilton, 1930.
Medium Kai Muegge with ectoplasmic materialization of a man’s head, 2013.
Medium Kai Muegge emits an ectoplasmic hand, 2018.
Kai Muegge’s materialization of the spirit of Colonel Henry Steel Olcott. Switzerland, 2018.
Page from story section of SÉANCE.
Gordon Higginson’s medium’s cabinet. Arthur Findlay College, England, 2003.
Medium Gordon Garforth in trance, 2013.
Medium Gordon Garforth displays ectoplasmic hand, 2013.
Gordon Garforth displays ectoplasmic mask (left), Photograph of a photograph of Gordon Garforth’s great-grandfather (right).
