Seance: Spiritualist Ritual and Search for Ectoplasm

Seance: Spiritualist Ritual and Search for Ectoplasm ~ Guest: Shannon Taggart Spiritualism, the American-born religion, attempts to demonstrate through the intercession of a medium that death is not the end, but a transition. Shannon's Spiritualism will merge ethnographic study, journalism and art. She will contextualize Spiritualism’s history and highlight its surprising connections to nineteenth-century social reform, scientific inquiry, artistic practice and popular culture.  Ultimately, this work seeks to amplify the reflexive relationship between Spiritualism and photography and to explore the ideological, material, geographical, historical and metaphysical correspondences between the two. For information about this book project, https://unbound.com/books/seance-spiritualist SHANNON TAGGART is a photographer and independent researcher based in Brooklyn, New York. Her photographs have been exhibited and featured internationally, including within the publications TIME, New York Times Magazine, Discover and Newsweek. For more information visit http://www.shannontaggart.com/ ************************************************* For more information about BITEradio products and services visit: http://www.biteradio.me/index.html