A Woman Holding a Liver 2017
Performance
Wimbledon Space’s ACTS RE-ACTS 4: Performance Laboratory, 3 - 4 March, in the Studio Theatre, Wimbledon College of Art, 4 March 2017
1 hour.
Photography by Catinca Malaimare and Rosie Potter.
A Woman Holding a Liver is a contemporary manifestation of the ancient ritual of haruspicy or liver divination. The piece for ‘Acts Re-Acts 4’ was in two parts: the first, an introduction to the history of liver divination, and the contextualisation of divination in relation to chance strategies in art, and then a divination of a lamb’s liver.
There is a blog post, as an introduction to the piece for the Wimbledon space blog: