Dara Malina "Hysteria Project / Beautiful Women Eating Cake"
chashama Window Space (266 W 37th St. )
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February 13, 14, 15, 17 @ 6pm & 7pm
February 18, 19 @ 4pm, 5pm & 7pm
Female Hysteria, it has been said, was discovered by the Doctor Charcot at the Salpêtrière hospital in late nineteenth-century Paris. Voyeurism at its finest, Charcot displayed his patients performing stages of hysterical attack before a live audience. In Hysteria Project/beautiful women eating cake we recreate the act of “performing hysteria” based on diagrams and accounts from the Salpêtrière. Meanwhile, we present a contemporary comparison – female hysteria as examined through emotional eating.
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Schedule
from February 13, 2012 to February 19, 2012
Artist(s)
Dara Malina, Jeanne Lauren Smith, Melanie Siegel, Stephanie Patent