{"product_id":"hello-leonora-soy-anne-walsh-9781949484038","title":"Hello Leonora, Soy Anne Walsh","description":"\u003cb\u003eVideo and performance artist Anne Walsh's encounter with and multipart response to surrealist painter Leonora Carrington's novel \u003ci\u003eThe Hearing Trumpet\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003eContributions by Dodie Bellamy, Julia Bryan-Wilson, and Claudia LaRocco\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOver the past decade, artist Anne Walsh has created an ongoing, multipart response to surrealist painter Leonora Carrington's novel \u003ci\u003eThe Hearing Trumpet \u003c\/i\u003e(written in the early 1960s, published in 1974). Walsh's interdisciplinary works, encompassing video, writing, and performance, chronicle her time with the nonagenarian author and, ultimately, her assumption of the identity of the aging artist. \u003ci\u003eHello Leonora, Soy Anne Walsh\u003c\/i\u003e is a visual and written \"adaptation\" of Carrington's feminist novella, offering a narrative in fragments: a middle-aged artist named Anne Walsh falls in love with the 92-year-old author of a book about a 92-year-old woman who is placed in a sinister and increasingly surreal retirement home.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWalsh courts the author, travels to Mexico to meet her, fantasizes about adapting the book for film, and spends the next decade searching for \u003ci\u003eThe Hearing Trumpet\u003c\/i\u003e's form and cast. Having discovered in Carrington's novel a thrilling, subversive example of old age, Walsh casts herself as an \"Apprentice Crone.\" She stalks old people and takes selfies with them. She becomes a mother, passes through menopause. She sings her daughter's Disney movie songs at \"elder theater\" classes. She studies and rehearses the trauma, the affliction, the indignity that is old age, and she writes to Leonora Carrington. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe story is told through facsimiles of hand-written letters, annotated research notes, post-it note flow charts, cast lists, scripts, and a photographic e\u003cbr\u003essay that loosely narrates Walsh's visits to Carrington in Mexico City, with additional texts by writer Dodie Bellamy, art historian Julia Bryan-Wilson, and poet and critic Claudia La Rocco.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e No Place Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 07\/02\/2019\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781949484038\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 236\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.45lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.90w x 0.70d","brand":"Anne Walsh","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52418844754101,"sku":"9781949484038","price":34.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/files\/img_aa8631a4-679c-4794-be5d-c59aab8791e6.jpg?v=1775570586","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/hello-leonora-soy-anne-walsh-9781949484038","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}