Deborah Edmeades: Monologues

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In conjunction with Transmundane, Deborah Edmeades presents a live performance in the unique setting of Central Library’s Sunken Garden. Intertwining Western mystical thought with the history of the sciences as well as philosophy, Edmeades’ performance draws together various histories of New Age philosophies which have been largely suppressed and ignored by secular Western culture. The performance references the history of articulated trance and channeling and its conceptions of the feminine, specifically referencing the history and practices of the spiritualist trance speakers of 19th Century colonial New England.

Deborah Edmeades currently lives in Vancouver. Her work has been focused through a practice of performance that has continued at times outside of an artistic or academic context and into therapeutic and esoteric experiments, and includes work in performance, lens and object based media, and drawing. Edmeades’ work has been presented throughout Canada and the USA, Europe, and Asia. She is a Franklin Furnace grant recipient, was visiting artist and guest lecturer of performance art at the University of Texas at Austin in 2000 and completed an MFA at Simon Fraser University in Vancouver in 2014.

Deborah Edmeades, Monologes, 2017. Photo by Jaye Kovach.