Monday, July 9, 2018

2018-04-18 Ghoulies, ghosties and long-legged beasties

Phantasmagoria was an exhibition focusing on what did people do for spooky entertainment before the invention of the cinema in the decades just after 1800. There were several video installations, but oddly enough not one for the glass harmonica - were they perhaps still worried, as people were then, that its sound would make people crazy??













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