Hello Leonora, Soy Anne WalshAuthor :
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Published : Tuesday 2 July 2019
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Video and performance artist Anne Walshs encounter with and multipart response to surrealist painter Leonora Carringtons novel The Hearing Trumpet.
Contributions by Dodie Bellamy, Julia Bryan-Wilson, and Claudia LaRocco
Over the past decade, artist Anne Walsh has created an ongoing, multipart response to surrealist painter Leonora Carringtons novel The Hearing Trumpet (written in the early 1960s, published in 1974). Walshs interdisciplinary works, encompassing video, writing, and performance, chronicle her time with the nonagenarian author and, ultimately, her assumption of the identity of the aging artist. Hello Leonora, Soy Anne Walsh is a visual and written “adaptation” of Carringtons feminist novella, offering a narrative in fragments: a middle-aged artist named Anne Walsh falls in love with the 92-year-old author of a book about a 92-year-old woman who is placed in a sinister and increasingly surreal retirement home.
Walsh courts the author, travels to Mexico to meet her, fantasizes about adapting the book for film, and spends the next decade searching for The Hearing Trumpets form and cast. Having discovered in Carringtons novel a thrilling, subversive example of old age, Walsh casts herself as an “Apprentice Crone.” She stalks old people and takes selfies with them. She becomes a mother, passes through menopause. She sings her daughters Disney movie songs at “elder theater” classes. She studies and rehearses the trauma, the affliction, the indignity that is old age, and she writes to Leonora Carrington.
The story is told through facsimiles of hand-written letters, annotated research notes, post-it note flow charts, cast lists, scripts, and a photographic e
ssay that loosely narrates Walshs visits to Carrington in Mexico City, with additional texts by writer Dodie Bellamy, art historian Julia Bryan-Wilson, and poet and critic Claudia La Rocco.
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