A Woman Holding a Liver

Photograph by Catinca Malaimare	Photograph by Catinca Malaimare	Photograph by Catinca Malaimare
Photograph by Catinca Malaimare	Photograph by Catinca Malaimare

Creators:	Couch, Amanda
Description/Abstract:	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. In the foyer gallery, there was an exhibition in which The Liver Models 2017, a series of monoprints taken directly from lambs' livers.
Item Type:	Art/Design Item
Date:	17 March 2017
Material:	live performance, lamb's liver, powerpoint, paper, pencil, monoprints: water-based ink on Chinese paper
Measurements or Duration:	1 hour
Locations / Venues:	Location From Date To Date Wimbledon Space, Wimbledon College of Art, London, UK 3 March 2017 4 March 2017
Projects or Series:	A Woman Holding a Liver, Extispicy in the Everyday
Schools:	School of Fine Art & Photography
Related URLs:	http://events.arts.ac.uk/event/2017/2/20... http://blogs.arts.ac.uk/wimbledon/2017/0... http://research.uca.ac.uk/4283 http://research.uca.ac.uk/4288
Depositing User:	Miss Amanda Couch
Date Deposited:	11 Dec 2017 15:20
Last Modified:	18 Jan 2018 12:44
URI:	https://research.uca.ac.uk/id/eprint/3867

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